Welp. It’s November 2nd, which means that I am once again living the NaNoWriMo life. Some of you may be saying, “But, M.J.,…I read your last post, and you were being all not overly dramatic about your creativity being dead and buried in the garden. What gives?” Well, I’ll tell you. Although I’m still pretty…
Category: Goals
Heading Upta Camp
April 1st is right around the corner, which means it’s about time for me to head upta camp (Name! That! Reference!)… Camp NaNoWriMo, that is. Camp NaNoWriMo, for anyone unfamiliar with this event, happens twice a year: April and July. It’s part of the NaNoWriMo organization but is different from its November counterpart in a…
Editing Update: Onto Step Two
In case you’ve missed it, the theme of my year (and possibly next year and maybe even the year after that) is editing and revising a little hot mess of epic proportions I like to call Full Circle, the third book in my epic-ish fantasy series, The CoileĆ”in Chronicles. In my last post, I talked…
The Editing Update For Which No One Asked
Normally, my first (and, let’s be honest, usually only) post of the month is devoted to my goals for that month, but as my goals currently all revolve around my editing efforts (or lack thereof…), I’m just going to talk about that instead. So…consider yourselves warned, I guess. This is your last chance to cut…
Let The Editing Commence! (Also, A Guessing Game…)
So…this is happening: That’s right. I have officially plunged into the abyss that is the first draft of Full Circle. I haven’t looked at it in a few months (I set aside every first draft for at least three months), and I’m wading into this first round of revisions with some trepidation. A lot of…