Some people love seashells, others collect stamps, and still others love to acquire ceramic Elvis figurines. I have a secret (well not anymore) passion for collecting things that carry things. I'd say "purses" but that wold be too limiting, as I also love totes and backpacks and even had a baby-carrier phase when QOE was small enough to be carried like an accessory.
My latest interest is this insanely cool handbag just made for writers with purse fetishes.
http://www.katespade.com/product/index.jsp?productId=10768526&cp=1863844.3744578
Thought I'd share. Now get back to your word count.
Showing posts with label NaNoWriMo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NaNoWriMo. Show all posts
Friday, November 12, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Best Reason to do NaNoWriMo This Year: Scrivener for Windows!! 50%-off Coupon!!
For anyone who has been trying to wrangle a large intricate work into an electronic format - all those pictures, clippings, post-its, outline, websites, etc. in one place - software program Scrivener has become the field standard. Hailed by critics EVERYWHERE as the best software for writers organizing any writing project that has all those little details, it has really only been used by a portion of the population because it is only for the Mac platform.
This year, if you "win" NaNoWriMo (see sidebar for link) you get a coupon for half off the software, which is already a veritable bargain at $45.00, but even better is that the developer is releasing a beta version for the Windows platform due out in 2011!
Woohoo!
This year, if you "win" NaNoWriMo (see sidebar for link) you get a coupon for half off the software, which is already a veritable bargain at $45.00, but even better is that the developer is releasing a beta version for the Windows platform due out in 2011!
Woohoo!
Friday, October 2, 2009
NaNo Hamlet
It's that time of year! National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) will be here in less than 30 days, and any interested writer needs to decide in that time to do or not to do.
A writer friend feels the way that I do-the "years participated" section of a NaNoWriMo profile looks neat and tidy if there is a pattern-consecutive years, every other year, two years on, one year off... Of course, this means I have to do the first or the last, as I have now completed it two years in a row. It's silly, but there it is.
I can't decide.
On one hand, I'm a firm believer in Anne Lamott and Stephen King's "sh#tty first draft" theory of writing, and NaNoWriMo is a great way to unload those burdensome ideas that clog up my brain.
On the other, I don't have a particular story in mind this year-a first. And once I start NaNoWriMo, I must finish it.
Do I face a blank page without any ideas on November 1st, or do I take a year off?
Thoughts?
A writer friend feels the way that I do-the "years participated" section of a NaNoWriMo profile looks neat and tidy if there is a pattern-consecutive years, every other year, two years on, one year off... Of course, this means I have to do the first or the last, as I have now completed it two years in a row. It's silly, but there it is.
I can't decide.
On one hand, I'm a firm believer in Anne Lamott and Stephen King's "sh#tty first draft" theory of writing, and NaNoWriMo is a great way to unload those burdensome ideas that clog up my brain.
On the other, I don't have a particular story in mind this year-a first. And once I start NaNoWriMo, I must finish it.
Do I face a blank page without any ideas on November 1st, or do I take a year off?
Thoughts?
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Pause That Refreshes and Class of ??
My bad- I do not have my post done tonight on Nathan Bransford, due to having a grand ol' time bonding with a new group of writers, scarfing free cookies and debating the merits of literary versus commercial fiction.
Okay, I'm lying, it was more like giant octopus versus giant snakes. Titanoboa, anyone?
So, tomorrow I will try to wrangle all those interviews and other resources into a handy-dandy ice-cream analogy, but in the meantime, I have a question:
Why are so many of the children's writers I've met lately high school graduates of the class of 19??
As of the last two weeks, I've counted five, yes FIVE. What are the odds? Are there more in our local SCBWI that I just have not met yet? OH MY GOD! Is this our version of a midlife crisis? And if so, which is worse? Buying a totally expensive midlife crisis car that goes way too fast, guzzles gas and does not have enough of a backseat for a child, or becoming a children's writer who makes no money, guzzles caffeine, writes too fast (NaNoWriMo) and has too much of a back seat because of having children (baby got back!) ?
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Okay, I'm lying, it was more like giant octopus versus giant snakes. Titanoboa, anyone?
So, tomorrow I will try to wrangle all those interviews and other resources into a handy-dandy ice-cream analogy, but in the meantime, I have a question:
Why are so many of the children's writers I've met lately high school graduates of the class of 19??
As of the last two weeks, I've counted five, yes FIVE. What are the odds? Are there more in our local SCBWI that I just have not met yet? OH MY GOD! Is this our version of a midlife crisis? And if so, which is worse? Buying a totally expensive midlife crisis car that goes way too fast, guzzles gas and does not have enough of a backseat for a child, or becoming a children's writer who makes no money, guzzles caffeine, writes too fast (NaNoWriMo) and has too much of a back seat because of having children (baby got back!) ?
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Introduction...Snik Snak Skaduliak
Playing in the car CD player: Snick Snak Skaduliak by the Go-Nuts
I am a writer/illustrator for the children's market.
The infamous "They" say that you should call yourself a writer/illustrator even before you are published because it is, in fact, accurate - you are writing and illustrating. You may not be published, you may not have ever submitted anything, but if you are writing and illustrating, then you are writer/illustrator. I modified the professional title for the last few years since I was still in "do I really want to switch to this career?" research mode- testing the waters and deciding if I really wanted to get wet. After finally leaving the shallows, and jumping into the deep water with both feet to do National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo- write a novel in a month) in 2007, I feel far more confident saying that I am, indeed, a writer. A good one? Who knows? But I write.
The illustrator side has had to take a back seat for the last few years, because it seemed easier to approach the field from one angle. Now, she's baaaaack. For lo, I have discovered the beauty of the modern graphic novel. Words and pictures together for a variety of age groups and genres? Swoon! My current young adult novel project may be very well suited to this medium, so I am currently on a binge - cramming graphic novels into my eyes and brain by the dozen, not to mention devouring "how-to" books about the medium, including doing the Ronin version of the book Drawing Words & Writing Pictures by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden. http://www.dw-wp.com/.
A word to those reading comics and graphic novels: If you are used to speed reading and burning through a typical novel, be prepared- the pictures in graphic novels are going to slow you down and make you digest the story fully. Try to speed look and read and you will end-up with serious eyestrain, because your eyes don't just go left to right, left to right, like when you read lines in a regular text-oriented book. Your eyes flick back and forth and all over the page, especially if you are reading a comic or graphic novel that has funky tiers, odd shaped panels and lots of diagonal panels, bleeds, splashes and insets. Do yourself and the creators a favor and slow down...
I am a writer/illustrator for the children's market.
The infamous "They" say that you should call yourself a writer/illustrator even before you are published because it is, in fact, accurate - you are writing and illustrating. You may not be published, you may not have ever submitted anything, but if you are writing and illustrating, then you are writer/illustrator. I modified the professional title for the last few years since I was still in "do I really want to switch to this career?" research mode- testing the waters and deciding if I really wanted to get wet. After finally leaving the shallows, and jumping into the deep water with both feet to do National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo- write a novel in a month) in 2007, I feel far more confident saying that I am, indeed, a writer. A good one? Who knows? But I write.
The illustrator side has had to take a back seat for the last few years, because it seemed easier to approach the field from one angle. Now, she's baaaaack. For lo, I have discovered the beauty of the modern graphic novel. Words and pictures together for a variety of age groups and genres? Swoon! My current young adult novel project may be very well suited to this medium, so I am currently on a binge - cramming graphic novels into my eyes and brain by the dozen, not to mention devouring "how-to" books about the medium, including doing the Ronin version of the book Drawing Words & Writing Pictures by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden. http://www.dw-wp.com/.
A word to those reading comics and graphic novels: If you are used to speed reading and burning through a typical novel, be prepared- the pictures in graphic novels are going to slow you down and make you digest the story fully. Try to speed look and read and you will end-up with serious eyestrain, because your eyes don't just go left to right, left to right, like when you read lines in a regular text-oriented book. Your eyes flick back and forth and all over the page, especially if you are reading a comic or graphic novel that has funky tiers, odd shaped panels and lots of diagonal panels, bleeds, splashes and insets. Do yourself and the creators a favor and slow down...
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