“Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.” -Vladimir Nabokov
NaNoWriMo isn’t for everyone. It’s not even for every writer. In fact, only 16% of the people who sign up actually reach the goal of 50K words in 30 days. And that’s perfectly fine, because for some people that’s simply not a useful goal. [...]
It’s that time of year again. The time when temperatures begin to dip into the 70s, you can buy a pumpkin spice latte at Starbucks, and when once again I start to thing about things like plot devices and character names. Yes, it’s almost time for NaNoWriMo.
Now I’ve been a participant in National Novel Writing [...]
I wrote the following in two separate mini writing sessions in the summer of 2002. I thought I’d post it here and maybe inspire myself to dig a little deeper into Gary’s story. What do you think?
The tree was a huge, clawing thing. Its inky, leafless branches snaked out Medusa-like from a trunk more than [...]
