Games and Goals

Since I’m doing Camp NaNoWriMo a word that’s constantly on my mind is: Goals! I’m talking, of course, about word goals. I’m drafting a novella for Camp and my overall word goal is 30k by the end of the month. This leaves me with a daily word goal of an, in my opinion, reasonably leisurely 1k per day. It doesn’t really Continue reading Games and Goals

Why I never wrote Harry Potter Fanfiction

The first fandom I was a part of was Harry Potter. There had been other TV shows, books and movies before that I was also a big fan of (Xena, for one) but it wasn’t until HP that I experienced the full fandom experience: looking at fanart online, discussing with other fans, reading up on trivia, memorizing the most peculiar Continue reading Why I never wrote Harry Potter Fanfiction

One Year to a Writing Life – March – Opinion Piece and Travel Essay

Well, April is turning out to be quite the busy month for me, so I thought I’d better hurry and get this post up so I don’t forget. The third chapter in One Year to a Writing Life, which I worked through during March, featured opinion pieces and travel essays. There were 4 exercises. Simply put they consisted of drafting Continue reading One Year to a Writing Life – March – Opinion Piece and Travel Essay

Blog Hop: The Writing Process

Oh my god, you guys, it’s my first ever blog hop! Exciting! I was tagged by J. C Hart of Just-Cassie.com, whom I got to know during Camp NaNoWriMo in July 2013. I’ll admit I’d been eyeing this blog hop quite lustfully as it’s been hopping around on blogs I follow and was really hoping to get tagged, so I’m Continue reading Blog Hop: The Writing Process