So – it’s a new year, another November and I’ve started a new fantasy book that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Time to put the pedal to the floor and get this one done! So happy to have my NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) community to help[…]
Read More »The Dandy Poet: Premembering Paradoxter and Existentialist Detective
From the blog
Wow! NaNoWriMo has blown my mind again. I’m a bit slow on the uptake but #NaNoWriMo is back, and it’s not just for my post-Halloween blues. April is now a Camp NaNoWriMo workshop. What is Camp NaNoWriMo? http://campnanowrimo.org/ describes it as ‘An idyllic writers retreat smack-dab in the middle of[…]
Read More »
It’s a busy life. Every day I’m either teaching writing, reading about writing, reading or writing. When I relax, I’m studying a film for its writing or reading something to gain inspiration about someone else’s mastery of writing. Occasionally I let myself meditate and play the ukulele or piano, but[…]
Read More »
So with my Existential Mystery tale Where the Wicked Rest is currently in mired in the necessary and focussed world of editing limbo I’ve spent the last couple weeks emerged in a new project, serious world building for a Young Adult fantasy novel I have in the works. To tackle[…]
Read More »
I’ve picked up two great new audio books this week for my exercise and travel time double duty: Sapiens and Talent is Overrated. Sapiens was mentioned in a great podcast I ran into with Tim Ferriss at Google and Talent is Overrated was emailed as a blog link by my mom. Both[…]
Read More »
Video Streaming Version (China) A party mixtape of classic Black Xmas Anthems – Mixed in China. Biggups to all the producers, both sampled and remixed who made this possible. I’ve brought it back out again because, well, I can’t imagine how I’d do it again differently. I hope you can[…]
Read More »
So my first NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) worked out pretty well- I wrote a 200 page first draft in 20 days, for a thriller/supernatural novel called Where the Widked Rest. It’s got a lot of problems, but it’s a book. I think NaNoWriMo is an excellent way to push[…]
Read More »