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MayNoWriMo Guest: Angela Korra'ti

Every writer at some point faces the challenge of how to keep the words going in the face of stress or rejection letter doubt. Angela Korra'ti, author of Faerie Blood, shares her thoughts on what's worked for her in her article On Motivation.

MayNoWriMo Day 2, 3

I didn't get as much done yesterday as I'd hoped, but it was a full, busy day with family stuff and my first panel for Coyote Con.  I had a great time talking SFR with Heather Massey (read the transcript here) and I can't *wait* for the Steampunk panel next weekend (May 8th, 11 PM EST).

I continued working with Liquid Story Binder, expanding my character backgrounds.  I've been using Writer's Guide to Character Traits and The Complete Writer's Guide to Heroes & Heroines to get some nitty...

MayNoWriMo Guest: Nadia Lee

Nadia writes the Final One Degree, discussing Olympic gold medalist Yuna Kim's memoir and comparing it to writing.

MayNoWriMo Guest: David Kopaska-Merkel

Stop by David's blog to read:  How to Begin Again.

MayNoWriMo Day 1

Here it is almost 6:30 PM CST and I've barely started MayNoWriMo. 

I'm sitting here with my first cup of coffee of the day (gasp!) and pulling together my notes for tomorrow's Coyote Con special session with Heather Massey on Science Fiction Romance (Sunday, 2 PM EST).  I'll also be gathering questions during the chat to send to S.L. Viehl, aka Paperback Writer, the author of the incredible StarDoc series.  She'll be posting answers on her blog throughout the month.

I do have Liquid Story...

Prepping the Calendar

As May approaches, I've been taking a careful look at my schedule.   With a calendar in front of me, I start circling and marking important days.  Mother's Day.  My birthday (and it's a significant one this year).  A guest blog spot for Carina.  My beloved sister's first Samhain release.

Ask yourself questions.

Any school duties this month?  e.g. Princess Monster just finished the science fair at her school (lucky it wasn't next month)Note when the kids get out of school. Any major projects...

MayNoWriMo Prep: Baby Steps

My number one goal for May (other than keeping my sanity with all the Coyote Con and MayNoWriMo group stuff to juggle) is a synopsis for a possible follow-up to The Bloodgate Guardian.  That might sound like a small goal (versus writing 50K in one month!), but as I go through my initial notes, it's going to be quite difficult.

For one thing, the characters I planned to base the second book on are side-characters I'd created in the second incarnation of BGG.  They lived in subplots — they...

Writing Fast(er)

This is from a post I wrote up for MayNoWriMo.

Everybody's writing process is different, so don't get hung up on the "right

way" to do anything. The trick is to find what works for YOU. You may be a

write-by-the-seat-of-your-flaming-pants writer. Great. Maybe you need to have a few notes written in advance. Maybe the whole thing should be plotted out in gruesome detail. It's totally up to you.

This is what works for me.

1. At least some plotting. Each of my projects had different needs.

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Catching Up

Sorry for the unexpected blog silence!  I've been sick this week.  Pretty much all I've done for two days is watch movies (Snow White A Tale of Terror, Pan's Labrinyth, The Invasion, and several others that I've already forgotten) and cross-stitch. 

I have a new idea I want very much to document, but I haven't had the energy to even take a single note yet.  I'm returning to the Evil Day Job tomorrow one way or the other, even if I can't sleep like last night (cold medicine right before bed...