omg. GET IT? 11. Who is your favorite charĀacĀter to write? Least favorite? It was inevitable that this question should arise eventually, so I was pretty prepared for it. Being asked who your favorite character is is like the previous entry I wrote about being asked which novel is your favorite – after a while…
9. How do you get ideas for your charĀacĀters? Describe the process of creĀatĀing them. Is this a legit question? I guess there are writers who literally sit down to draw out every detail of ever character, but for me I just bust them out. When I know a new character is coming in, I…
If only my workspace was this clean. 6. Where are you most comĀfortĀable writĀing? At what time of day? ComĀputer or good olā pen and paper? First question is quite easy. I can write anywhere. Growing up riding the school bus for two hours every day has trained me to tune out outside distractions, even…
I’m always tempted to write “Tumadre” 3. How do you come up with names for charĀacĀters (and for places if youāre writĀing about ficĀtional 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…
Please tell me you see it. Please. My longest manuscript thus far is cappin’ around 500 pages. Maybe around 250k words. The usual accepted length for a “novel” (ie: not a novella or a short story) is around 50k words and at least over 100 pages. Of course, this is arbitrary, but please humor this…
Nanowrimo is drawing to a close and Iāve got about 3k left to go. Not too much to worry about, especially with a relatively empty night before me. However, it is a bit daunting to see so many of my nano buddies crossing the line nowā¦of course I would like to blame getting sick TWICE…
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 donāt fear, I shall prevail! =) With that, moving on. In said novel…
Hey kids, guess whatā¦only one more week before NaNoWriMo ā09 begins! Now Iām not exactly the mostā¦level person when it comes to NaNoWriMo. In fact, I unsympathetically joined the ranks of the rebels long ago when I first started participating in NaNoWriMo in 2007. The rules stipulate something about starting a story from scratch or…
Since being back at school, Iāve had to take extreme measures to make sure Iām still writing. Well, not completely extreme, but you must get what I mean. Iām 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 schoolā¦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….