NaNoWriMo
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Monday, November 16th, 2009Remember those commercials, “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” Of course you do. You’re just that old. Other than being a brilliant use of alliteration, rhythm, and outrageous trademark repetition, the old Tootsie Pop ad justified all the silly questions in our lives. It [...]
Plucking Words from Thin Air
Thursday, November 20th, 2008The blank page stared at me like a great ghostly eye. I might have punched it in the eye, had it not been a $600 Apple Cinema monitor. The apparition element was all my own. But there was a reason for the empty screen. I had begun my fourth venture into National Novel Writing Month, [...]
Books and Reading
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Well, National Novel Writing Month is over! Whew! I finished the 50K by writing random bits about my main character’s parents. It was drudgery, and I will delete it all as soon as I open the Jinnie Wishmaker file again, but for now–I’m READING! And watching movies! And doing all the other things I mostly [...]
The kid book is done! And 5K short.
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Sometimes I look up from my computer (which is rare these days, between National Novel Writing Month and holiday portraits) and wonder how in the world I ended up writing a middle grade novel. But last night, I finished Jinnie Wishmaker! I’m sitting at 45,000 words at the moment, just shy of the goal of [...]
The Hard Press Toward a NaNoWriMo Finish
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007We’re 2/3 of the way through National Novel Writing Month, and I have crossed the 30,000 word mark with my middle grade novel Jinnie Wishmaker. I hosted three Write-Ins last weekend, which netted me about 4,500 words. Not quite on pace, but each were fun in their own way. On Friday we had kids over to watch [...]
Seasonal Madness
Saturday, November 17th, 2007The holiday craziness is in full swing! I’m shooting every day and still trying to keep the word count for my new novel Jinnie Wishmaker on pace to finish in November. I hit 25,000 words last night after a mighty struggle. Am I stressed out? You bet. Am I caught up? Well, mostly. We’re having a [...]
Luck is with me!
Monday, November 12th, 2007Today in the mail came two very important postcards. Remember when I shipped my non-fiction book contest entry with the wrong amount of postage? The postcards were from the contest noting that both my manuscripts had arrived safely. No one noticed that I used the wrong type of label! Whew! NOW we can move on to the [...]
It’s NaNoWriMo time and I’m writing…a kids’ book?
Thursday, November 8th, 2007I really can’t believe it. I mean, it makes sense. I’m a children’s photographer. I used to write kids’ textbooks. I taught school for five years. But, gosh, I’m the purveyor of darkness–seamy literary-drenched tales of disaster and the black nature of humanity. Maybe that’s what led to this sudden and complete reversal. It happened [...]
Crazy Tales and November Folly
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007In the last few years, Halloween has taken on a significance unknown in my previous thirty-um, thirty-some-odd years. No longer a holiday marked mainly by passing out candy or possibly going to some grown up party, it’s a big day for my children to demonstrate their personalities through their costumes, and at midnight, it’s the [...]
Gearing Up for NaNoWriMo
Friday, October 19th, 2007I do love the fall. When you feel the relief from the heat, the chill rippling across your skin, it relaxes your tension and slows your pace, no longer a rush from air conditioned car to air conditioned house. We can pause a bit, listen to the leaves rustle, push our hair out of our face from [...]
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