Drops of Blood

Hey, NaNoWriMo buddies. I thought I was going to post this earlier today but goofed it up. So I’m trying again — just wanted to communicate the fact I’m WOEFULLY behind on my word count  for my NaNo novel but am working on it. Now at just 10,060. But chugging away (after taking daughter to [...]

An online friend (hey, Suzie!) pointed me to a tool that will help you break through writer’s block: Dr. Wicked’s Writing Lab and the “Write or Die” tool. You go to http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html and enter your word count goal, whether you want the program to be forgiving, strict, or evil (go with ‘forgiving’ the first time), [...]

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” ~ Olin Miller

I know the reasons for writing regularly, for being patient through multiple drafts, for just showing up day after day. I haven’t developed a long-term butt glue to keep my fanny fastened to the fiction [...]