Runner and storyteller
With NaNoWriMo on the horizon – less than 36 hours to go – I’m seeing lots of people talking about writing their NaNo novel. I’m not participating this year because I’m in revision mode on Book 2, but since I …
I’ve been working on Book 2 in the Exeter series for the past several weeks, and it’s grown from a novella telling about that summer mentioned in Bones of the Past to a bigger, deeper novel about a summer that …
Two-hour break from work, check. Coffee and bagel, check. Favorite table at the coffeeshop, check. iPad,… Oops. No iPad. OK, notebook, check. Pen,… No pen either. Great. That’s basically how yesterday’s writing session started out, following a frustrating morning at …
Here’s this week’s entry in the Story Cubes Challenge. As I mentioned below, I used this to experiment a bit with different types of storytelling. Prompts: Bug, castle/turret, book, cell phone, flower, padlock, house/1-room-school, sad face, globe
When I first started this challenge, I figured I’d write between 500 and 1,000 words for each week. Well, Week 2 is at 2,000 words and counting. It’s been a fun story to tell in some ways, a chance to …