I get a little *squee* of joy whenever I think about NaNo. It’s because of the camaraderie. I’ve done other NaNo-esque months on my own (last June I did 70K on Embers in a month) but they are never the same. More of a slog. Frustrating and lonely. Running a marathon on one’s own is not the same … Read more
Asking me how writing is going can often open a can of worms. So what’s a safer, more sure-fire question?
Occasionally at parties someone will ask the dreaded question: “So, how’s the writing going?”
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.
“If you’re treating writing like a job, you need a vacation from it too.”
“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?
no one says “your first thousand Photoshop-edited photos will be garbage, throw them away” so why do we say it to beginning writers?