*stumbles in and promptly collapses into a pile of fidgeting limbs* Guys. I won NaNoWriMo. And in the process, ended up disappearing from life. 'Nuff said. I truly believed the end of November would find me bowing and scraping to the masses, apologizing for only completing about 5,000 words. Instead, you find me beaming and [...]
I would like to formally recant a statement I made last week: "Boy, NaNoWriMo is easy!" [insert negative adjectives here] The biggest downfall with nano is that all my creative energy gets channeled into my book, with none left over for the blog. This results in stress, scrambling last minute to churn out something half-way [...]
Have I ever told you guys the story of my book title? No? *cracks knuckles* Some of you may recall a time before Aeterna was Aeterna. If you do, I feel sorry for you; my writing was a mess back then. Naturally, I didn't know it was a mess -- not at the time -- [...]
Hello, my people. Today, we have lots of deep and uncomfortably personal questions which I am supposed to answer. (Which generally means I don't answer them at all, and instead ramble about chocolate.) Over the past month, I've accumulated several tags that I've put off until I could update my writing status (mostly because they [...]
SO. You may remember a post I did back in September, when I announced that I was taking an official leave-of-absence from my book, The Silvershaw of Glenborn, to explore other stories and hopefully get the pain to subside in my neck. (Boy, that was a run-on sentence.) Well. No matter how hard I try, I [...]
Alright, people, I have an announcement to make. We all (hopefully) know that I'm writing a book that hates me. Not only does it resist being written, it's extremely disobedient and rebellious, and my characters make tons of messes that I have to clean up. It's been a thorn in my side for two years [...]
TODAY ENDS CAMP NANOWRIMO. Excuse me while I go bury myself and don't return for another hundred years. *buries self* Ahem. Yes. For the few random people who don't know what Camp Nano is, it's basically where you set yourself a writing goal and complete it in a month. Yes, we could do that ourselves, [...]
Guys. Do you realize how special this week is? Two years ago, sometime this week, a life changing event occurred. While my brother was in the hospital having his appendix removed, and all the house was quiet, I went into our storage room. Sitting down among the various piles of boxes and junk, a scrap [...]
I told you I wasn't done. Welcome to Part 2 of me trying to cheat God. I seem to do it a lot. If you somehow missed the previous part, here it be: That Time I Didn’t Think God Could Write a Book Here's a quick behind-the-scenes story about that post. I wrote it, sent [...]
As promised, here is the post I was too lazy to finish last week, which is pretty much the story of my life. Anyway, today, I'm going to share something sensible for a change. Wait, you say, sensible? Do you even know how to do that? Between you and me, no. No I don't. We'll [...]
The Sarcastic Elf 