NaNoWriMo Rituals

Julie asked if we have any NaNoWriMo superstitions. Seemed like an excellent post idea. Mine are more rituals than superstitions, but I think it’s all the same. Here are mine:

My writing will be done on a Toshiba Satellite laptop when I’m at home and a Dell Optiplex desktop with dual monitors when [...]

Break Out Bloggers – Sharing the Love

Diane awarded me with the Break Out Bloggers award today, which gives me the opportunity to post about the great upswing in activity I’ve been experiencing the past month or so and it also allows me to hopefully direct that attention elsewhere as well.
First of all, thank you all so much for coming here to [...]

Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning by John Thackray Bunce

I did a search on the word “Fairy” at Project Gutenberg the other day and came across the book: Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning by John Thackray Bunce, originally published in the late 1800’s. Here is some wonderful text from the beginning of the book:
We are going into Fairy Land for a little [...]

What I Know About This Year’s NaNoWriMo

It’s gonna be fun.
It’s gonna be tiring.
Somewhere in the middle, I will get burnt out, but I’ll have to keep going.
There will be interruptions. There is Thanksgiving, weekends, and a memorial 40 days after my Grandma’s death (A Greek Orthodox thing). The point is that there are probably less than 30 days of writing [...]

It’s Cold Outside

I woke up this morning and noticed my house was a little colder than usual.  I looked at my outdoor thermometer and it said 29 degrees.  Wow!  We went from high 50 degree temperatures to 29 degrees in a night.  Hopefully, things will warm a bit as the day goes on.  I want my Autumn!
Thanks [...]

Question of the Day: Notebooks

Has anyone in the history of the universe ever filled a notebook from page 1 to page x?
I only ask this because I have a bunch of Moleskine notebooks that I started to write in, only to see the next shiny new notebook and push the old notebook to the side.  I can’t be the [...]

Gaiman’s 30 Second Scary Story

I just wanted to let all you Neil Gaiman fans know that he wrote a “30 Second Scary Story” and you can read it and listen to him read it here.  Just in time for Halloween.

Bookmooch

I just discovered Bookmooch today.  Actually, I’ve known about Bookmooch for a while, but signed up today.  In fact, I entered some of my books in the system and got a request for one of them right away.   I turned around and put in a request for Lud-In-The-Mist.
For those who don’t know, the way Bookmooch [...]

Ghosts of NaNoWriMo Past

I got curious last night, which is always a bad thing I’ve found, and pulled out my NaNoWriMo story from last year. Iwrote 14,000 words last year, in a baby-induced, drowsy fog with absolutely not planning except for a one sentence story idea. I also wrote the entire thing by hand in a Moleskine [...]

My Fantasy Story Map for NaNoWriMo

Well, I cleaned up my map as well as I could, though you might not be able to tell looking at it. I was going to add color, but I think that made it too “computery”, so I’m leaving it black and white.
The purpose for creating this map was to help me visualize the [...]