NaNoWriMo

  • You can’t go more than about 10 feet in Austin without bumping into a writer. They call our city the “Live Music Capitol of the World” but in reality, I think we have more writers and authors than musicians these days.

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  • Check out my latest post on Medium (for a change of pace): “How I Rewired My Brain & Made My Writing Career Possible“

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  • Once again, I have embarked on the journey of invention and self-discovery that is NaNoWriMo. This will be my third National Novel Writing Month attempt. It also marks my first year as a Municipal Liaison (for the Austin/Central Texas region), a position I volunteered for because I love NaNoWriMo so very much. Here are a […]

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  • Belatedly late update

    I’ve been up to a lot lately, and sadly, blogging hasn’t been as high on my list as I’d like. The important thing is that I’ve been writing a lot. Between my professional copywriting gigs and my novels, I generate a lot of extra vowels each day. I’ve also submitted two different short stories to contests, […]

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  • I started my first novel when I was eighteen. Thirty years later, where am I now?

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  • Just past the halfway mark…

    It’s November 17th, and the month is a little more than half over. For a writer that can only mean one thing… NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), also known as the month in which writers nearly go insane, is also half over. We have willingly accepted the challenge to craft a new novel of at […]

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  • As I get ready for NaNoWriMo 2014, I think back to last year’s month-long novel writing challenge and how it’s changed me as a person and a writer.

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  • I always encourage people to fall down the rabbit hole. If you find yourself with sudden inspiration to research something, you should do it. Whether it’s going to IMDB to look up the actor you think you recognize from a guest role on a tv show, or searching on Facebook for your grade school classmates, or […]

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