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 […]

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 […]

I’m feeling generous, blog.

One of the nice things about working in a bookshop is that we often get author signings. Since I live in Galway and not Dublin, we don’t tend to get the big-name authors very often, but we get a few of our own Irish ones every now and then. This month, however, we had Cassandra […]

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 […]