I’m excited to say that I’m once again jumping into the daily word count fray this year and participating in NaNoWriMo! I hadn’t planned to do NaNoWriMo this year. I mean, what a year it’s been. Surely there were other things I should be focusing on? Between all the writing I have done that I’veContinue reading “NaNoWriMo 2020”
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Book Review: “Made To Kill” by Adam Christopher
“Made To Kill” is a book by Adam Christopher that I really wanted to enjoy. Like, *really* wanted to enjoy. Alas, I couldn’t even finish it. There have been a lot of reviews for this book that praise it lavishly for marrying two genres into one good, old-fashioned, B-movie pulp fiction novel. Which is exactlyContinue reading “Book Review: “Made To Kill” by Adam Christopher”
NaNoWriMo: The Kids’ Edition
I feel very fortunate because this year, my younger daughter Maggie is doing NaNoWriMo with me. There is an entire young writer’s program for NaNoWriMo that kids can sign up for. Maggie is going to do it, and so are most of the kids in her class. And that’s my fault. During the annual openContinue reading “NaNoWriMo: The Kids’ Edition”
NaNoWriMo: 2015 Edition
It’s November 1st. That means it’s time to kick off NaNoWriMo. And once again, I’m participating. And new this year, so is my nine year old, Maggie! Throughout the month I’ll post various updates on the progress for both of us. Tomorrow I’ll explain how I got Maggie, and her whole 4th grade class, involved. ButContinue reading “NaNoWriMo: 2015 Edition”
Book Review: “The Girl On The Train” by Paula Hawkins
The last of the books I snarfed down at the end of this summer was “The Girl On The Train” by Paula Hawkins. This was the “it” book of the summer, the one everyone was talking about and that everyone couldn’t put down. It was supposed to be the page-turner with the twists you couldn’tContinue reading “Book Review: “The Girl On The Train” by Paula Hawkins”
Book Review: “Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland” by Ace Atkins
I needed something to cleanse the mental pallet after Lou Berney’s “The Long and Faraway Gone.” It was such an intense read, the way Berney knifes the reader in nearly every single scene, that I needed to visit some familiar friends. Queue up Spenser. Since Robert Parker’s sudden death in 2010, Ace Atkins has beenContinue reading “Book Review: “Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland” by Ace Atkins”
Book Review: “The Long and Faraway Gone” by Lou Berney
Right after reading “Third Rail”, I jumped into Lou Berney’s gut-wrenching “The Long and Faraway Gone“. And when I say guy-wrenching, I mean knife plunging into the gut, then barbs opening at the tip, and then twisting all around until your digestive tract is the groundest of ground meat. Ostensibly a mystery, the book opensContinue reading “Book Review: “The Long and Faraway Gone” by Lou Berney”
Book Review: “Third Rail” by Rory Flynn
I was on a reading tear this past summer. I went through something like six books in four weeks, which, if you knew how slowly I read, you would understand what an unbelievable pace that is for me. And so, without further ado, here is the first of a couple of reviews that I’m going toContinue reading “Book Review: “Third Rail” by Rory Flynn”
NaNoWriMo – The Lessons Learned
Let’s start off with this brief summary of my participation in this year’s NaNoWriMo: I WON! Yes, that’s right, I won the NaNoWriMo contest this year, where anyone who hits the 50,000 word mark in a brand-new-never-having-written-a-word-of-your-NaNoWriMo-novel inside of thirty days wins. What do we win? The ability to say we won. That’s it. NoContinue reading “NaNoWriMo – The Lessons Learned”
NaNoWriMo 2014 Update
We’re twelve days into NaNoWriMo 2014. How are you doing? Have you cracked under the pressure? Are the words flowing out of you like silver streams of pure literature destined to alter the landscape of fiction as we know it? Are you plowing through your novel, letting the stream of consciousness spill from your mindContinue reading “NaNoWriMo 2014 Update”
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