Well, Squiders, I’ve finished the first draft of the third book of my high fantasy trilogy. Now, I don’t know how you guys work, but when I close to the end of a draft, I get all fidgety and restless,
Online Education and Story Research
I’m going to tell you guys about this, because apparently this is a well-kept secret. You can take college-level courses for free on the internet. Kit, I hear you say, what does this have to do with writing and/or reading?
Getting Left Brain All Over My Right-Brained Activities
Have they disproved the whole right brain/left brain thing? I think they probably have but ANYWAY. And I apologize again for the spate of writing-related posts lately. I’d like to do more reading/genre/media ones, but it turns out that, while
The End of ROW80 and Moving Forward
Well, ROW80 round 1 ended yesterday. And I believe Round 2 starts April 7th and runs through the end of June. As we’ve previously discussed, I set a goal of 50K on my current writing project, the third book of
Reading’s Influence on Writing Style
Have you ever noticed that sometimes reading or watching something changes the way you talk or write? For me, I can’t help but notice that every time I sit down to write after watching Doctor Who that some British phrasing
Pi Day, What’s In a Name, and a ROW80 check-in
Happy Pi Day, squiders! As an ex-engineer, it is one of my favorite random math holidays. (I am also fond of Talk Like a Pirate day. Less math-related, though. But with more parrots.) As you guys know, I’m working on
Writing Process Blog Hop
I like you people. Sometimes you make blogging really easy. (Which is sometimes necessary, because you occasionally have days where you’re crockpotting dinner and it’s been in there for two hours before you realize you never turned the crockpot on.)
Smashwords’ Read an eBook Week and Free eBooks (and a ROW80 check-in)
So, last week, Smashwords sent out an email to all its minions to let them know that this week was going to be Read an eBook week, and that we could discount our books and join in if we wanted
The Progression of Playlists
While we’re on writing processes this week, I’ve run into an interesting issue with my playlist for my current project. (We’ve talked about story playlists before, but to sum up, I tend to make playlists for each story project with
The Downside of Plotting (and a ROW80 check-in)
Well, Squiders, I’ve been working on the third book of a high fantasy trilogy recently (passed 50K this past week, hooray!). I’ve been working on this trilogy on and off for a lot longer than I like to own up
