Ruth Madison's Blog, page 14
November 30, 2011
NaNoWriMo: Debrief
National Novel Writing Month is over and I am a winner. Which is to say that I got the 50,000 words from scratch. My thoughts about this process? I'm glad that I made my personal goal much higher. As I strived for 80,000 words, it made it a lot easier to reach the official goal. [...]
November 27, 2011
Six Sentence Sunday: Nano Four
For this week's Six Sentence Sunday I have another six from my current NaNoWriMo work (click to learn more about the plot, in case you are very confused!) This being NaNo, it has not been edited at all yet This is the last Sunday of November, so the last one from Parallel Loves for a while! ### Roland [...]
November 25, 2011
Friday Excerpt: Reece Asks Too Much
An unusual proposal in today's NaNoWriMo excerpt! Full plot summery available here. Word count: 485 ### "I need to go with them," Faith said. "When the time comes. But when you get this plan of yours figured out, come for me. I don't care what I'm doing or how old I am, I'll go with [...]
November 21, 2011
People Don't Care
Some days I feel like I'm pushing a huge boulder up a hill and it's never going to make it to the top. I guess you have to watch for small victories. The other day I was sitting at work when I overheard a coworker telling a new person about computer systems he's been reading [...]
November 20, 2011
Six Sentence Sunday: NaNo Three
For this week's Six Sentence Sunday I have another six from my current NaNoWriMo work (click to learn more about the plot, in case you are very confused!) This being NaNo, it has not been edited at all yet ### On the far side from the bed was a chest of drawers and sitting on top was a [...]
November 18, 2011
Friday Excerpt: Trent is Sneaky
Friday Excerpt this week is from Chapter Seven of my NaNoWriMo novel. For an overview of the plot and characters, click here. Remember that this is completely rough draft with no editing! Word count: 345 ### "We've got to go back." "What are you talking about?" "We have to go back to the professor's house," [...]
November 17, 2011
In Praise of Wounded Hero Romance
I have a guest essay over at author Anne Holly's blog! I'm reading her book Strings Attached now. It's quite good. There is a side character who uses a wheelchair and she's told me that she's considering writing a romance just for him! I hope she does. I'll be ready to tell you guys all [...]
November 16, 2011
NaNoWriMo: Progress
So, how is National Novel Writing Month going for me? Not great, actually. I started out strong, having a really detailed outline to work on. But then I did a rough pass of all the most interesting scenes. Now I have to go back and flesh out more, fill in gaps. It's the less fun [...]
November 15, 2011
Dev Cycles
I've said before that some people find their devness is something that they must act out in real life and others are satisfied with disability in fantasy alone. There's more to it than that, though. I know I experience cycles, and it seems from other devs that I speak to, that they do as well. [...]
Dating and Books
In case everyone is getting sick of NaNoWriMo posts, back to my regular sort of post! My friend, Sherilyn, who is also a writer, made a great analogy the other day between being an author and dating. I'll get to that after I fill you in on some background. I called her because I've been [...]
