by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on December.2.2009
December’s here (boy did it arrive fast) and thus November has ended and so has National Novel Writing Month. Here’s how it went for me:
MY STATS
Average writing speed: 600 words per hour
Average hours spent each day: 1 hour
Goal: 50,000 words written
Actual Words Written: 39,700 words and ~14,000 words edited
Result: 1 Novella rough draft completed and [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on November.12.2009
There’s this piece of advice that is constantly given to aspiring writers, that goes something like “Make yourself write every day”. Or “Just keep writing” they say, and that there’s no such thing as a writer’s block or needing to be in a creative mood to write.
Well, I beg to differ.
For a while there, I [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on November.1.2009
November is here, which means that it’s time for NaNoWriMo! That stands for National Novel Writing Month, and the participants aim to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days.
National Novel Writing Month is meant to encourage people to focus on writing lots of words in a relatively short span of time. Because it [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on October.14.2009
Wow, it has really been a long time since I’ve posted to this blog.
I’ve been a bad, bad blogger.
But I’m not going to fret over that. Nope. I’ve recently made a promise to myself to stop fretting over everything so much. You see, it wasn’t as if I hadn’t thought about blogging. My problem is [...]
by ** Tatiana Caldwell ** on May.6.2009
I’ve pretty much been quiet on the debate raging about digital books vs traditional print books, but alas I feel compelled to share my current thoughts on this newer form of media.
First of all – I think ebooks are far more than just some passing fad. More people are getting their news online from websites [...]