I started a new short story (or novella? Ah!) set in one of my worlds last weekend. I’m a few thousand words in and I’m absolutely loving the feel of the world again. I set it in a familiar world to get excited about the idea of going back to revise one of the drafts set in [...]
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Writing on the anniversary
posted by erin on March 7, 2010
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2010/writing-on-the-anniversary
Finished?!
It’s a term that’s always relative, isn’t it? Being “finished” with something — especially for writers. How finished is finished? Even now, a week after I hacked, slashed, and rewrote the final chapter in my Work in Progress, I’m reluctant to say I’m finished. In one definitional sense I am (the edited, cleaned-up, polished rewrite is [...]
posted by erin on January 26, 2010
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2010/finished
And NaNoWriMo is over.
I won NaNoWriMo 2009! Now all I need to do is get my winner’s t-shirt (or another, at least) and sit back, giggling over the ludicrousness of my accomplishment. Right? Well, not really. I’ll explain. The breakneck pace of my NaNoWriMo project this year was due in part to a lot of factors. It was [...]
posted by erin on December 1, 2009
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2009/and-nanowrimo-is-over
November Accomplishments
Writing Accomplishments November is a legendary month for writing for me and this year was no exception. I won NaNoWriMo after only 20 days of writing! My pace was extreme, my stress level was surprisingly low, and no chores around the house were completed until I hit 50,000 words. But…once I hit those 50,000 words [...]
posted by erin on November 30, 2009
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2009/november-accomplishments
