Commitment

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Positive Procrastination

The Lucky 7 Game!

Last week, I was tagged by the ever-talented Claire Legrand to participate in this fun little meme that’s traipsing its way across the internet. The meme is called ‘The Lucky Seven Game,’ and here are the rules: Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript Go to line 7 Copy down the next […]

Slumpty Dumpty

Around this time last year, I hit a slump in my writing. I had come down from the high of NaNoWriMo only to jump straight into the specific hell that is working in retail in the Christmas season. By January, my high had slid down to a slump, and then the dreaded Fear sank in. […]

Nano & Me: A Love Story

Oh NaNoWriMo, how I love you.  No, seriously, I think I love you more than I’ve ever loved a social website.  You’re freakin’ beautiful to me. For the third year in a row, I have earned one of these bad boys right here: I think part of what I love about NaNoWriMo is that they […]

The Final Countdown – My NaNoWriMo Pep Talk

Oh boy. Three whole days left of NaNoWriMo. I’m behind, but not too panicked, because I feel like OH YEAH I CAN DO THIS. I feel like such a freakin’ boss right now. I’ve only 12776 words left to write. “Only” she says, but you guys have to realise that this is the best I’ve […]

And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make

There’s going to be a small delay in week three of my giveaway — I totally mixed up the books! City of Glass is the third book, not the second. D’OH. See, this is what happens when you don’t read the books first. So while I’m waiting to hear back from the competition winner, I […]

There are 10 types of people in the world: those who get binary, and those who don’t.

Generally speaking, I don’t. I did it a little bit in college. Trust me, this blog post has nothing to do with binary – I just got excited when I realised today is the 1/11/11! AMAZING. I love those dates. Imagine how hyper I’ll be when we get to 11/11/11. Ahh November first.  Did any […]

In defense of NaNoWriMo

Seeeeriously. This hasn’t happened so much this year, but last year and in preceding years, there has been a bit of NaNoHateO on the Internet. We had this little chestnut in Salon last year, written by Laura Miller, who I’d thought was lovely until I read that article and then felt like I really had […]