This is one of my favorite times of the year. Halloween creepiness is everywhere, the weather is (some days) getting crisp and cool, and NaNo is ramping up once more. NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month for the uninitiated, is the process of writing a 50,000 word novel in the 30 days of November. That’s ...
I am a writer with a dirty secret: I don’t actually write. I mean, I do write. I nano every year. I write this blog, I journal a couple times a month, and I have tubs full of notebooks that are brimming over with ideas scribbled in the margins. So yes, I physically write. And ...
I have to admit, I’ve been a word nerd since the fourth grade. People tease me about being a grammar nazi, but I prefer to say that I’m simply very passionate about spelling, punctuation, and using the right word. The English language is a beautiful thing: the OED has over 600,000 words in it. There ...
The last day of November is a day of powerfully mixed emotions for me, or has been for roughly the last ten years. November is the home of that equal parts awesome and terrifying endeavor, NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo, for the uninitiated, is short for National Novel Writing Month. Now, this is a bit of a ...
Some people celebrate today as Halloween and that’s cool. But the real holiday? NaNoWriMo Eve. If you’re not familiar with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), it is, in a nutshell, a creative challenge wherein participants attempt to write a 50 thousand word (or more) novel in the 30 days of every November since 2000. Now, ...