we're all mad here
I did it! I’m really pleased with myself not for just reaching 50k, but for not putting it off and then being forced to write an exorbitant amount in the last week like I did last year. I’m happy that I made a plan and stuck with it, which I’m not always great to when…
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I’ve got a few things to talk about in today’s post. We’ll chat about determination vs motivation, seasonal writing, age categories, and doubt, but they all kind of neatly tie in together, so rather than writing separate posts, here we are with a mishmash! First, The Orangutan Librarian wrote a super relatable post recently about…
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This has been the longest week of my life, and I’m really not sure how I managed to hit my weekly goal, but y’all, we’re in the home stretch now. Monday Am I ever going to write on a Monday? I was about to say probably not, but apparently I wrote 8k last Monday, wow,…
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I’ve got to quote my homie, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, to kick off this topic: To show that this is not fanciful, in his letter to me of 6 May 1944 my father wrote: ‘A new character has come on the scene (I am sure I did not invent him, I did not even want…
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Earlier in the month, I decided to do away with chronological TBRs altogether. I had about 15 books left that I wanted to read before the new year, all purchased in 2018, but I was finding that I just either wasn’t reading or I was reading so slowly, absolutely dragging my feet, because I wasn’t…
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Please, for the love of all that is unholy, give me a stellar week. Last week was okay, but I was struggling. I didn’t talk about it a lot, but I’ve gotten myself in the habit of reading almost all day long, and slowly breaking that so I can start writing again has been not…
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Guys, I’ve never seriously considered hexing someone. Hexing is Ouija board shit, man, you don’t mess with it, that’s some dark kind of magic and nope. No thanks. But I swear to the goddess. Yesterday, I was having a good day. I did some housekeeping work in the morning–read a few blogs, did up the…
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Here we are! It’s the first week of NaNo! I’m posting this a few days late because the weekend go away from him, but I’m honestly super excited to get underway with this project, and ICYMI, here is my project announcement, and here is last week’s post, which introduces each of my characters. These weekly…
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Well, this is it for 2019! I went up to Maine this weekend to see Erin, who I do most of my book shopping with, and who I haven’t book shopped with since April, so I was really excited for this haul. We stopped at two different stores–BAM & Bull Moose, both in Bangor. BAM…
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Character Spotlights are a (bi)weekly Wednesday series where I talk about some of the characters from the novels I’m working on, or have already completed. They’ll just be little snippets of their lives so that you can get to know them a little, and hopefully one day read about them in a published book! For…
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Mary and the Words 