This is your manuscript. With blood.
Yes, it came out of the printer that way. And yes, it ruined several pages by leaving its remains in the printer.
NaNo thoughts and word counts
arcaedia gave some useful information, in this entry, regarding word counts for novels. I’m excited, as last night the discovery of an absolutely lovely Waterboys song gave me my title idea for NaNo. I always do better once I have a good title. It gives me an idea of the …
NaNoWriMo Links
A fun wordcount meter The Zokutou Clause for those of you who have won at NaNo once already.
“Outlining a Novel in an Hour” article
Because there are only four days until registration for NaNoWriMo begins… (and I just realized that while doing some edits over at my Geocities webspace, I accidentally deleted my NaNo Resources page. *sigh*
Every Cliche in the Book
Man, there’s nothing like spending an afternoon looking through stories you wrote ten years ago and reading the critiques from your creative writing classes (including the one where I got a C for the assignment and was told basically, “Way to write every cliche in the book, now scrap it …
REC: How To Bring Someone Back From the Dead
I want to point you to an awesome story. “How to Bring Someone Back From the Dead” by Victoria Schanoes Click here to read it. Very good, very powerful.
2005 Reading List
Okay, I’m going to be updating this all through the year (I hope…if I remember) so I can keep track of what I’ve read. A Hidden Magic – Vivian Vande Velde Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling Sword-Dancer – Jennifer Roberson (a re-read from years …
Storytelling…
Okay, so I owe a couple of stories to people. First of all, the two truths and a lie… It is a lie that I have smoked pot with my best friend’s husband. I’ve never smoked pot. In fact once I was offered it most insistently at a Dave Matthews …
NaNo Update: FINISHED!!!!!
76,208 / 75,000 (101.6%) Today’s Word Count: 5,869 FINAL Word Count: 76,208 I am more excited than I can possibly express. Yes, it is 4 in the morning, and you’ll see my own little joke in the last scene, because that’s damn late (or early, if you want to …
NaNo Update – Day 28
Whew! Getting close now! 70,339 / 100,000 (70.3%) Today’s Word Count: 2,560 Overall Word Count: 70,339
