What happens when you force your story to be something it isn't? What happens when you force yourself to write a genre you're not co...

Not me, my book. Yes, I'm still struggling with Colonel Fitzwilliam's story. However, I think I finally figured out why. I have a ...

Today is one of my favorite days of the year. No, it's not my birthday, or Christmas. (Um, hopefully you knew that already.) Today is ...

This month we’ve looked at The Princess Bride as an analogy for writing and NaNo. We learned not to listen to our Inner Fred Savage, to keep...

Today is Thanksgiving. It's a tendency in the blogging world to take off major holidays (as blog traffic drops significantly, and... wel...

You killed my father. Prepare to die. Of all the quotable lines in The Princess Bride, this one is perhaps the most iconic. With the excep...

This is where you are right now. Like Westley, you have been tenacious in your quest. You have not given up on the thought of holding your o...

During Week One, everything in your novel seemed perfect, almost idyllic. Your novel, and to a broader degree the act of novelling, became y...

On Tuesdays in November, I'll be running  series of NaNoWriMo pep talks. I was re-watching one of my favorite movies a while back, ...

After, "How much should I plan?" the second most common question I get is, "How do you do it?" Writing 50,000 words in...

As a long time NaNo participant and Municipal Liaison, there is one question I am asked more than any other: How should I prepare? The ans...

I have participated in National Novel Writing Month every year since 2003. For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is a crazy attempt to write a 50,...

Fall is finally here. This is my absolute favorite time of the year: everything I love most is packed into the space of about four months, s...

Week 1: Set-up Week 2: Conflict Week 3: Character Week 4: Change So, we've all decided what kind of Austenesque novel would work for us...

I've mentioned my RSI a few times now. In 2008 and 2009, NaNoWriMo left me in agony for the month of December. Last year I was able to...