(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…
Without technology I definitely would not be as effective of a writer. Oh, sure, before my family had its first computer I wrote everything out by hand. But once the keyboard was in my hands I suddenly wrote everything faster (and because of all the writing I did, I can churn out, not kididng, about…
Some authors can come up with plots like itās no big deal. *coughstephenkingcough* And some others take a few years to even get a plot point that they think is worth going with. I kinda fall in betweenā¦sometimes I have a flash of brilliance and write down the plot idea in my little orange notebook,…
Chances are you are reading this from any of three current sources, for now āMusings of a Procrastinating Authorā is being broadcasted to three different channels. Two are WordPress related and one is a Livejournal account. I will provide all three links belowā¦if you have an LJ account you can friend the LJ blog and…
Itās no secret about me that Iām not interested in ever having human babies. However, that doesnāt mean that I donāt have my ābabiesā. All my cats aside, my novels are pretty much the closest things to babies I will ever have. Following this metaphor, Nagnomei is now eight years old. Itās a stellar oldest…
āWhy?ā is a great question, whether you are living or writing. When we are living, āwhyā means āWhy am I here? Why did I eat that? Why is that creepy guy starting at me?ā āWhyā is very existential. āWhyā means something is happening to us. We donāt have to take responsibility for it. āWhyā is…
Oh, the perils of being a student-author. Itās a beautiful Sunday afternoon today. The temperature is perfect for a foray out into the grass with nothing more than a novel notebook. I can feel my creativity flowing as my mind is perfectly awake for an endeavor. But, alas, I am stuck inside my room doing…
Iāve always been a big fan of writing late at night: when itās totally dark (with the aid of a lovely, subdued lamp), the world is asleep, and even your own body is pretty much on the verge of physical collapse. However, even when Iām tired, my mind is still creatively going and I find…
Oh, early October. Almost my birthday and almost time for NaNoWriMo. Sadly, I have not had much time to put thought into NaNo this year. Luckily for me Iām a ācheaterā and just work on the same story from the year beforeā¦at this point I donāt have time to focus on yet ANOTHER new story/series,…