Remember my stance against NaNoWriMo? Oh come on, sure you do. To refresh your memories, here’s the link: Writing a Novel? Don’t do NaNoWriMo. For the full effect, read the comments. Good stuff there. So my question to you who took part in NaNo last year, how did it go? Especially if you were first-timers, did you think you learned something, produced good work, realized something about this novel writing gig, or all (or none) Read more…
I’m in the throes of procrastination and have been for about a week. Ironically, a recent New Yorker has an article on the topic, which helped me identify what I’m going through and why, but also ironically, I haven’t actually read the article yet because I’ve been putting it off. So why am I procrastinating? Not just on writing GWIII, even though I am so close I can see the end from here. I’m also Read more…
One of the books I picked up at ArmadilloCon this year was The Spirit Lens, by Carol Berg. Someone is trying to kill the king of Sabria and keeps missing. So far, all the evidence points to Queen Eugenie. To try to divine the plot and clear the queen’s name, King Philippe summons a distant cousin, Portier de Savin-Duplais, to solve the mystery. This is a rich, complex fantasy. Everything about it is layered, from Read more…