This morning on twitter an interesting thing happened. Now most mornings have interesting happenings on twitter, not just today but this one speaks to where I’m at right now:
kelleyburrus: @merlene inspired me to shift my perspective, randomly. I’m researching Alpaca farms….and why not?
chrisbrogan: @kelleyburrus - research away! Dream big.
That’s it right there. Dream big.
Recently I [...]
As part of my goal to make some changes in my life I have to take over the mortgage payments and all of the bills for my household. My income doesn’t cover the current bills so it’s time to take action.
First thing to go: telephone. Not only have I been paying for regular telephone service [...]
While the idea of the novelist crouched over his paper (typewriter, keyboard) in poor light in a cramped attic may seem romantic it does little to add to your productivity or to your health.
Getting up and stretching or even walking around a bit every 20-30 minutes can relieve cramping and stress in your body and [...]
Autumn of 2005 I had reached a point in my life where nothing was working. I’m sure to outsiders my life was looking just fine but it just wasn’t working. I looked back at all of the things I disliked about my life 10 years before and most things hadn’t changed. It was time to [...]
Garbage in = garbage out.
Writing a novel during NaNoWriMo is a challenge of endurance. If you’re eating too much junk food with the excuse that you don’t have time to eat healthy because you’ve only got so many hours in a day and you need to get this novel done dammit you’re going to crash.
Novel [...]
You’ve written 5000 words of your NaNoWriMo novel and you’ve hit a wall but you’ve got this great idea for a different novel that you’re just itching to begin. You think about deleting that first novel or setting it aside and beginning from scratch on the new novel idea. After all you still have lots [...]
Great dialogue is what makes your characters realistic. It’s what powers your plot plot. Without good dialogue your novel will seem flat and your reader will quickly lose interest.
I’ve a list here of some places to read up on how to create good dialogue:
Writing Dialogue
How to Write Dialogue
Tips on Writing Better Dialogue
I find I get [...]
Many novelists use music to help their writing. For some, one CD seems to resonate with the feel or the mood of the novel they are writing. Imagine writing a novel set in the highlands of Scotland a couple of hundred years ago. Now imagine writing that novel with the sound of the Beach Boys [...]
One of the greatest things about joining National Novel Writing Month is the community. Once you create a free membership at NaNoWriMo.org you have access to the member forums which is absolutely teaming with activity this time of year.
There are local area forums in which you can meet and interact with other people in your [...]
Every morning I wake up around 6am. I make my coffee, check my email/Facebook/Twitter for messages and then I open my Google Reader to catch up on my RSS feeds.
I tend to spend much of the first hour of my day scanning through the hundreds of posts while I sip my coffee and tweet with [...]
