Archive for October, 2009
Some bloggers take a hiatus in the month of NaNoWriMo (www.nanowrimo.org) in order to focus all their writing to their current project. Trying to reach the 50,000 word mark by November 31st is tough with the tug of responsible to one’s blog. So here are a few tips:
Keep the blog entries short and sweet. As [...]
A number of members in our writing group mentioned today that they are embroiled in the drama of their own stories to consider taking on a new project for the National Novel Writing Month. They agreed the grueling 1700 word count a day- or the 50,000 words within 30 days- was worthwhile goal, but couldn’t [...]
November is National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo. This auspicious contest began in 1999 by Chris Baty with the challenge of 50,000 in thirty days. Two years ago, I dared to partake in the challenge and this year decided to once more take up the pen (or rather the keyboard) and crank out [...]
It never ceases to astound and amaze me what I can find the Internet, so I figured I’d share what I picked up along the way:
How to Start Writing When You Don’t Feel Like It- This blogger shares some great tips on writing when you’re not in the mood. The site itself has tons of [...]
I was telling a fellow writer the other day some drama I experienced in my teen years when my family endured a harrowing experience of being stalked. Like some B-movie, the guy would call and threaten to kill us, to blow up our house, or vehicles would be vandalized under the cloak of night. I [...]
I’m finding more often than not that writing regularly is the single most important marketing tool for any blog. Updating regularly enables your blog to post to readers, links to the search engines, and enables readers more keywords to find you. (Don’t forget to tag your blog entries).
This coming weekend the writer’s group meets with [...]
















