It’s the 30th!  Time’s up!  How’d you do? Well, 50K or not, you now, no doubt, find yourselves with at least part of a novel.  Some of it may actually be usable.  But what do you do with yourself now that the Nano rush is over? Well, DON’T STOP WRITING.  I mean, you can, if you [...]

So, last week a new Muppets movie came out.  (And they put out about a million different trailers, and I have had to watch them all multiple times.  Evil marketing, Disney.)  I went to see it opening night with my sister-in-law and her husband with great expectations, but despite it being fun and full of [...]

Hello?  Hello?  Hey, is this thing on?  If you have managed to stumble here on this, the most commercial of days, I hope that if you ventured outside into the consumerism that you met nice, friendly people full of holiday cheer but somehow I doubt that.  And if you stayed home, I hope you drank [...]

Well, my fellow Wrimos, Nano ends next Wednesday.  You should be somewhere around 36K to be on track. I can’t say this enough, but DON’T PANIC. If you’re behind, you still have time.  A lot of Americans use Thanksgiving weekend to catch up, since they tend to have extra time off of work.  (I have [...]

Well, my friends, we have come to the end of the series and the end of our re-read.  Voldemort has been vanquished, though the costs have been high, and we have lost loved ones along the way. I was fourteen when the first Harry Potter book came out, 24 when Deathly Hallows was released.  While [...]