NaPoMoNoWriMo: Going Postmodern
Apparently there are some people out there are trying to write a novel in a month. Since they’re engaged in a project called National Novel Writing Mon...
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Round Up Redux
This week NaNoWriMo just won’t stop being a thing people talk about, so I join in and pimp my own NaNoRelated offering. Finishing stuff turns out to be...
NaNoCalc: A NaNoWriMo Words-per-day C...
Here is my NaNoWriMo words-per-day calculator. If you’re reading this on my site (as opposed to RSS) and we’re still in November 2009 you should see th...
Round Up the Usual Suspects
More on editing and unediting the dead this week. How to maintain tension even when your cell phone makes everything too easy. A man gets his hair cut ...
NaNoReMo
There has been much excited gushing in the blogs recently about NanoWriMo. I did not realize until recently the extent to which NaNo has become a kind ...
Editing Big then Small
When I’m editing, I often get caught up in the nasty details of my writing. I’ll be reading through a paragraph and I’ll notice that I have fallen rep...
It’s not Revision. It’s Prevision
So after the writing mania of the last month of so, and before the forced march of NaNoWriMo it may be time to focus again on the editing process. Although I...
Deja Review
I may not have posted anything else since my last round up, but that didn’t stop me grazing the literary ruminations the internet has to offer. Which I guess...