My NaNoWriMo Experience
Guest blogger, Battlestar McCormica NaNo is the best. That is the word on the street, and by street I mean blogosphere, and by blogosphere, I mean, holy crap did I just use the word blogosphere? What...
View ArticleThis Writer’s Life—NaNoWriMo Week Two Recap
by Melissa Corliss DeLorenzo Ok, full disclosure: the other day, I freaked out. Sunk pretty deeply into my… ahem… novel, I suddenly came a little unglued. I had no idea where it was going or what I was...
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Guest blogger, Amy Arenson Like most writers, my head is almost always in a book, and in my case, in a novel. I love novels. I’ve lived most of my life with my head inside a book, yet I couldn’t bring...
View ArticleThis Writer’s Life—NaNoWriMo Week Three Recap
by Melissa Corliss DeLorenzo You know what’s one of my biggest challenges with NaNoWriMo? Finding time to go to the grocery store for the weekly shopping. I remember when I was lying on the...
View ArticleMy NaNoWriMo Experience 3
Guest Blogger, Sarah Markowski I work full-time and have two children, aged 3 years and 6 months. Between dishes, laundry, poopy diapers and making lunches, I don’t have time to write! Errr, I mean, I...
View ArticleThis Writer’s Life—NaNoWriMo Week 4 Recap: The Squishy Middle
by Melissa Corliss DeLorenzo The other chilly day, the kids and I were out for a walk, all bundled in our new winter gear. A mid-ish November day, the sun on the tops of the newly bare trees. The tips...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo 2010 Wrap-Up—Momentum & Making New Plans
by Melissa Corliss DeLorenzo Done. Over 50,000 words. There is something quite amazing and exhilarating about setting such a lofty goal and achieving it. I say that with a great deal of humility—there...
View ArticleMy NaNoWriMo Experience 4
Guest blogger, Shana Thornton I was a NaNoWriMo virgin and completely oblivious to the process. I didn’t even have a slight curiosity from the past about this November challenge called NaNo in the...
View ArticleScript Frenzy—A Month of Frantic Writing
Melissa has decided to undergo another writing challenge for the month of April and gives you her strategies for transforming a novel into a script and collaborating with another writer.
View ArticleScript Frenzy—The Collaborative Experience
Kate Robinson read Melissa Corliss DeLorenzo's novel and thought it would make a great film. When Script Frenzy came along in April, Kate asked Melissa if she could write the book as a film. Read more...
View ArticleCreating Together: NaNoWriMo, a local and global perspective
Melissa Corliss DeLorenzo takes a look at National Novel Writing Month from a local and global perspective. "NaNoWriMo has eclipsed its quirky inception and evolved into what many consider a salient...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo—Choosing Your Project
As I count down the days to NaNoWriMo 2011, I think about the genre I’ll work with this year. My first year of NaNoWriMo, I wrote an erotica novel. I did it for fun because I thought I would be able to...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo—Planning, Using Humor & Finishing Early
Shana Thornton writes about the planning involved in her second NaNoWriMo, and how that has made the writing experience more enjoyable: "I harvested the research from my relatives—moonshine, alcohol...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo—Just Write To Win
NaNoWriMo participant and Municipal Liaison Teresa Schultz-Jones writes about her motives and methods for the annual 50,000 word challenge and the secret she has uncovered over the last eight years of...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo: The Lessons I (re)Learn in November
Melissa shares her 2011 NaNoWriMo experience: some new lessons, the remembered knowledge that writing everyday is possible, even in the midst of a full life, and offers up some goodies for NaNoWriMo...
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