we're all mad here
Yes, that title does refer to NaNoWriMo. No, I am not participating. Kind of. (Warning: this also somehow turned into a blog about anxiety.) Last night was The Used! It was as surreal as I thought it was going to be, and maybe even a little more. It was very weird in a wonderful way. …
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I’ve been telling myself that I had to wait until I’d written 10k words of the new Pen boys novel before I wrote this blog. That seems asinine, I know, but I just realized why I was doing it. Whenever I was writing a new fanfic, I made myself wait until the 10k mark before…
Read MoreOn Saturday, I posted a very brief thing saying that I’d finished writing the Pen boys. There wasn’t much else beyond that, and so I thought it might be fun to delve into what comes next. At the moment, I’m still in the lull of post-finishing, and so I’m not doing any of these things…
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Yeah, I’ve definitely been avoiding the Pen boys for a little while. I was having finishing anxiety again, and so I took a couple weeks off to read a crap ton of books, and to hang out on Pinterest a lot under the guise of “researching”. I mean, to be fair, it is actually research.…
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Gosh, it’s been a while. Life has been insane lately. Between my regular day job and teaching yoga, I haven’t been home much. I’ve been subbing here and there, and I had the Harry Potter yoga workshop, which went over phenomenally, and then it was off for vacation. I think I’ve mentioned Erin a few…
Read MoreThere are so many topics that I want to talk about on here now that this is public, so many things that I want to share about my writing process (someday soon, I promise, I’m going to blog about how I use tarot cards at the beginning, middle, and end of my process), but this…
Read MoreAlways edit. While editing isn’t fun, it’s necessary. And while editing may not feel like “real writing”, it is. You are still creating. You are still moving forward. I hate that term–real writing. Everything is real writing, even if writing means going about your business while creating in the back of your mind. You’re always…
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Mary and the Words 