I have decided to give CampNaNoWriMo a go this year. I have participated in NaNoWriMo every year since 2002, and often wished it was multiple times a year, as opposed to just November. Camp NaNo is basically the same thing, but without all the whoopla. The plus with Camp NaNo is that fact that you can customize your word count goal. It’s not like 50,000 words is horribly tough to hit, but something a bit less would make success much easier to hit. In all … Read more
What a nice surprise the last week or so has been. On the 9th, I happened across an article in the Wall Street Journal on an author that, up until that point, I have never heard of. Hugh Howey. He is the author of several books, but his most recent success has been Wool. After reading the WSJ article, I hopped over to Amazon and picked up Part 1. I read it straight through in one sitting. I think it was around 11,000 words, and … Read more
A Map to Get Out of Writer’s Block – An infographic by the team at NY Book Editor
Tell us the story in just one minute of how you met your significant other – or your best friend. I met my wife through a mutual friend. Actually, I had a guy friend and my wife was friends with his sister. We all got together for a birthday party and I knew she was the one from the first minute. It only took me 2 weeks to actually ask her out though. Being young and nervous about girls was my problem. Now, 20 years later, … Read more
I have to say, I have not been this motivated to write in quite a while. Lately, I have been eating/sleeping/dreaming about writing. So much so, that I have opened an account on Amazon to begin selling ebooks. I know, I am probably a few months away from having my project ready to go, but I happened to be in the middle of the thought process the other day, and poof – I was set up! As to my story line for the project. It’s … Read more
This is my first ‘flash fiction’ ever! It is for Friday’s writing prompt: Imagine there was another “gold rush” in America. What would it be like? Place yourself as an outsider watching from afar, on The One Minute Writer. The man across the table was a codger with greying hair and side burns to match. His stern look said everything that it should about the time and life of his ancestors. He sat resolutely, as if waiting for purpose of life to be revealed presently. … Read more
So, I was surfing the internet (is ‘surfing the net’ still a term being used?) today, when I come along a website for writing prompts. It’s called The One Minute Writer, and each day there are new writing prompts posted, and there is a handy little timer on the site to track you writing time. I gave today’s prompt a go, and I will certainly go back and add more time to the prompt, as one minute is just getting me warmed up! What are some … Read more
However much I would love to fill my days with writing fiction or any other of the 100+ hobbies I have, I do work. My latest project has been one that does not come by very often. It is a 11,000+ s.f. single family home. I know, a little small, huh? Anyway, I started the project back around the middle of December and have been mixing my days on this project as well as a few other non-Revit projects. I SO much prefer this project … Read more
Over the years, I have had a great desire to write fiction. I have started (and stopped) far too many stories to count, but never seem to follow through with them. It’s not like I think they are garbage, well maybe some of them are garbage, but it’s just the want to write them to an end is never there. I have decided it is time to stop with that and get something done! To start things off right, I have signed up for an … Read more
Now that’s it’s been almost a month since my infatuation with the spendy drafting table from Pottery Barn, I have news! Being the creative wood worker type, I designed a table to ‘mimic’ the one from my last entry. I was able to find a surplus of hardwood lumber (African Mahogany) on craigslist for a steal and had a fabricator in line to make the two half round table supports. Then I found my new table. Yes, I bought a table instead of making my … Read more