I’m always tempted to write “Tumadre” 3. How do you come up with names for characters (and for places if you’re writing about fictional places)? (Hey, can I toot my own horn for a moment? Really? Thanks.) If there’s one thing I’m apparently good at, it’s naming crap. This makes me day considering I write…
These things cure writer’s block. Trufax. This meme is going around again, and I thought it would be cool to add to my writing journal! 😀 Yay. Beginning with today, the first, and going on through Aug 31st. (I’ll make my own at the end.) 1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you’ve…
Don’t jump! You guys will be fiiiine. Reader Carla, (omg u giyz inorite??) asked me in an email a very good question recently. “Why, Hildred, do the two mirrors of your blog have different titles? Yo, it’s true! The LiveJournal version is called “Hello From a Stranger” and all the subsequent mirrors, including the last…
Books take up space. Viable space. Space I could be using to store my multitude of CDs because I think they’re nifty. Also, books are made out of paper. You know what that means? If you’re a voracious reader, you’re killing a lot of trees. As an Oregonian I am programmed to tell you that…
First of all, I feel that I should comment on NaNoWriMo thus far. Currently I am a couple thousand words ahead and expect to finish with some time to spare. Getting sick for a weak though put me a little behind, but don’t fear, I shall prevail! =) With that, moving on. In said novel…
So it’s no secret that I have crazy, wild, and totally inappropriate dreams. These dreams in themselves are amazing story fodder: I know, when I was in fifth grade I wrote a compilation of all the interesting dreams I had up until that time. I even had sex dreams starting back when I was eleven…
Since being back at school, I’ve had to take extreme measures to make sure I’m still writing. Well, not completely extreme, but you must get what I mean. I’m trying at the very least to chug through at least one page a day on Nagnomei, and two on CROSS// (or however much I can do…
Well, not really, but I do have to apologize for being so quiet lately because I moved back to school…twice. Long story. Has nothing to do with writing. Really. But yes, now I am back at school. Senior year, it be. That means more lovely places to write but hardly the time to do so….
(Note, this entry was originally meant to be longer and slightly more convoluted, but due to time constraints I must cut it short. Feel free to engage me in the comments, though.) I write fantasy novels. Working on two series right now. One is high fantasy and the other could probably be best explained as…
By some swing of the cosmos I made it to a public library today. (Okay, so I had to go get a haircut and this is where I wait for my ride to get off work.) Everytime I come to a library I feel very nostalgic, since when I was a child I practically read…