Archive for the ‘writing’ Category

Happy Birthday, Ray Bradbury

Dear Ray Bradbury, I’m writing you this letter and posting it to my blog, even though I’m pretty positive you’ll never read it, because you’re a cranky old man who hates the internet. But on this, your 90th birthday, I have something to say to you, and this is my best forum for saying things [...]

21st of June, 2010

engage the confections! this day will last forever & the heat of my bones this fever i cannot shake is threatening to overtake you all this day will last forever until i devour the sun & pull you into a dance with the moon & me so… sweeten the derangements! open your flesh to me [...]

NaNoWriMo, How Does It Go?

This latest go at NaNoWriMo has been both a resounding success and a crashing failure. I’ve gotten into the habit of doing marathon writing sessions on Saturdays, but doing little to no writing any other day. I’ve fallen far behind in my word count, and there’s really no way I’m going to reach 50,000 words [...]

Must Be the Season of the 50,000-Word Novel

NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow, and I’m doing it again. The first time I did it was on my own in February, 2005. I had something to prove to myself: that I could actually start and finish writing a story longer than 10 pages. I did it and am still proud of the result. I did NaNoWriMo [...]