NaNo 2016: Prep
What I love about NaNo and what I’m hoping for in the upcoming month
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The blog and general ramblings of Victoria Feistner
Low Spirits and the Weepies
A letter to fellow Pantsers in grip of the Week 2 Weepies.
Things I Wish People Would Ask Me at Parties #1: Editing and Research
Asking me how writing is going can often open a can of worms. So what’s a safer, more sure-fire question?
Things I Wish People Would Ask Me at Parties
Occasionally at parties someone will ask the dreaded question: “So, how’s the writing going?”
A Year In Review
Jim C. Hines, recently completed a year of writing full-time, and wrote up a nice little report on the year, and how it’s difficult sometimes to measure successes when one works from home.
Updates and vacation musings
“If you’re treating writing like a job, you need a vacation from it too.”
Writer vs. Designer
“How’s work going these days?” causes a mild stampede in my brain. Are they asking how the writing is going or the graphic design? Do they know that I am trying to write full-time?
Writer’s overflow
What to do when all you want to work on is anything but your WIP?
Arbitrary arithmetic
no one says “your first thousand Photoshop-edited photos will be garbage, throw them away” so why do we say it to beginning writers?
Snarls
I think the problem of plot snarls is a lot like knitting: you’re continuing merrily along, sometimes with a pattern, sometimes just making a big ol’ scarf, and you get to the end of a line and realize you’re missing a stitch.