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On realizing my favourite characters are twenty…
Someone asked a very good question on the NaNoWriMo Facebook page: How old are your favourite original characters? I blinked and then had to do math. Math! And man, did I feel strange afterwards. My favourites are twenty-years old. You read that right. Twenty. My first short stories with them were written when I was eleven. I am now thirty-one.I then did some even more scary math because people then wanted to know how long I’d been writing. The first stories my mom has saved are from kindergarten, though I apparently was writing stories a bit before that first saved one. This means I’ve been writing stories for twenty-five to…
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Welcome 2013…
I have done something today that’s been a bit of a goal for a while now. I have organized my clost. Now, it’s not perfect yet, but it’s almost there. I’ve bought extra drawers so I have essentially an adult dresser’s worth of space now between the dresser I had as a kid and the sets of drawers in my closet. Moving my sister’s stuff to her room freed up a third of my closet and allowed me a little more bookshelf space up top. I still need something extra for storage on my bedside, but I’m not sure what that’s going to look like because I haven’t found anything…
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Writing, Life, and Questions
A couple of things, dear readers… November has snuck up on me this year. Normally, I’m doing NaNoWriMo at this point. I haven’t missed one since college. However, I don’t know that I’ll do NaNo this year. I think taking my focus off of what I’m doing to write 50,000 words (which turns into whole other books I need to finish and edit) is really doing myself a disservice this year. I don’t need another book in my head. I need to finish the one that I’m editing now and get the darn thing sent off already. If, instead of doing NaNo, I focus on editing (rewrites, the bane of…
