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January 18, 2016
Books Read in 2016: IN BED WITH A HIGHLANDER by Maya Banks
In Bed with a Highlander by Maya Banks My rating: ~2.5 stars average First 30-40% of the book: 4 stars Remainder of the book: 2 stars Book Summary (from Goodreads): Ewan McCabe is a warrior determined to vanquish his enemy. Now, with the time ripe for battle, his men are ready and Ewan is poised […]
January 17, 2016
January 2016 Weekend Writing Marathon, Day 3 — Write Through the Frustration #WWMarathon
So how has the marathon been going for you? As I posted in the comments on yesterday’s post, so far, I’ve written a total of 3,232 words and done some research that has several new plot ideas running around in my head. Can’t wait to dig in today! Some writing motivation from James Scott Bell: […]
January 16, 2016
January 2016 Weekend Writing Marathon, Day 2 — Even If You Don’t Want To! #WWMarathon
Some writing motivation for marathon day 2 from Neil Gaiman: I did my 1k1h sprint last night and added a total of 896 words to a chapter in progress (which included re-reading and lightly revising the 875 words of that chapter already written). I haven’t added these 1,770 words to the word-count meter yet—I want […]
January 15, 2016
January 2016 Weekend Writing Marathon — Ready, Set, Go! #WWMarathon
It’s time for our January Weekend Writing Marathon! Here are the parameters (not rules, just guidelines!): The marathon runs from 5 p.m. (your time) Friday evening until bedtime (your time) Monday night (in the US, Monday 1/18/16 is a holiday for most people; if it isn’t for you, you can use the standard bedtime Sunday […]
January 14, 2016
Who’s Up for a Writing Marathon Weekend?
Back before my local writing group disbanded, for years we held a “writing marathon weekend” every month. What that meant was making a commitment that from “after work” Friday evening until Sunday bedtime (or Monday, on a holiday weekend like this one), we’d try to get as much work done as possible on our stories/manuscripts […]
January 13, 2016
Books Read in 2016: THE SCORPIO RACES by Maggie Stiefvater
As mentioned in my Reading Challenge Categories post, one of the challenges I’m working on in 2016 is a Readings in Genres challenge for the alumni of my grad school program. We have one book in each of the six official genres (Young Adult, Romance, Sci Fi, Fantasy, Horror, and Mystery) and an additional bonus […]
January 10, 2016
2016 Reading Challenge Theme!
I didn’t do a very good job at all last year of fulfilling all of the categories in my self-set reading challenge. So this year, I decided to try something a little different—something which would also work with the idea of trying to read a variety of genres and a variety of new-to-me authors in […]
January 4, 2016
What Did You Read in 2015?
For the last couple of years, I’ve set forth reading challenges for myself—not just to ensure I’m reading more books each year, but to make sure I’m expanding the scope of what I’m reading. In 2014, I chose different genres for my challenge categories. This year, I went for more of a Time (you know, […]
November 16, 2015
Monday Motivation — Unusual Writing Tips from Andrea Heckler
Happy Monday, all! Since I enjoyed finding the videos for the Monday Motivation posts that I did back during FirstDraft60 in October, I thought I’d continue doing that. Here’s a video with four “unusual” writing tips from Andrea Heckler. (A couple of them may sound very familiar to those of you who’ve been around my […]
November 12, 2015
Updating Our 2015 Reading Challenges
For the last couple of years, I’ve set forth reading challenges for myself—not just to ensure I’m reading more books each year, but to make sure I’m expanding the scope of what I’m reading. In 2014, I chose different genres for my challenge categories. This year, I went for more of a Time (you know, […]
