First, I’m overwhelmed with the sheer volume of communication surrounding NaNoWriMo. There’s a non-stop stream of related tweets with the #nanowrimo tag, my inbox is overflowing from forum updates about write-ins and announcements just for the L.A. area, and that’s before I have a chance to swing through the Fantasy forum. People were putting together […]
NaNoWriMo 2009 (50,000 words + 30 days = 1 novel)
The formula is deceptively simple, and 1,667 words a day seems like a very reasonable target. What could possibly go wrong? I’ll be able to answer that first-hand by December 1st after completing my first venture into NaNoWriMo. My goal is to complete a novel set in Runes of Gallidon, as well as at least […]
Kenji Novel – The Struggle with POV
After reading several books, blogs, and online articles on the elusively challenging art that is called writing, I felt prepared enough to actually start writing my first novel. The ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for three years took on a substantive form – characters, dialogue, even a rough overview of the […]
We Tell Stories – narrative experiment from Six to Start
Rather than simply port stories to the Internet, Six To Start recently produced six original stories for Penguin Books that incorporated the Internet as an integral, required piece of the process. The project is called We Tell Stories. Each story is very different and utilizes different technical platforms/tools (e.g., Google Maps, twitter, blogs, etc.). Very […]
Do Something to Talk About
There’s an old adage about writing, which goes something like, “If you want to be a writer, then write.” Like a lot of things in life, there’s the talking about and then there’s the doing, and the gulf between the two keeps most of us in the talking camp. I finally, after three years and […]