The other day, I woke to an email congratulating me on reaching 10,000 words for NaNo. The night before, I’d plugged in the day’s word count to the site without looking at or thinking about the month-to-date total, so the email caught me by total surprise. Cue the dance party! 100 or 1,000 words […]
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So Far . . .
So far, the little one is asleep and I’ve just broken 8000 words with my writing for the month. How awesome is that? When I’m updating my word count with 100 or 200 words in a day, it feels like a drop in the ocean. My biggest writing day so far? Something over 600 words. […]
A Reason For Silence
I take a long, long time to work out the things that upset me. And 2016 has been one hell of a year for upsetting things. It’s taken me weeks to figure out this blog-silence. It wasn’t the traveling – which was great, if exhausting – or the fact I had a couple roles in […]
FYI
Shakespeare is kicking my ass. This is awesome. But this does mean that on days I have rehearsal, the computer never turns on. On one hand, it’s great for my productivity. On the other, it means I have an even harder time staying on top of this whole communication thing. So my posts here could […]
Blogging Blather
The awesome part about participating in a group blog on writing: I have begun to feel less like an impostor. From the age of eight, I knew I was going to be a writer. I wrote as much as possible, made as many mistakes as possible. I read widely and voraciously. And I read anything I […]
Anxious Announcements!
I can finally announce that SUPER SEKRIT project I mentioned a couple posts back. ANXIETY INK is live! Together with two fabulously talented women, we blog about various aspects of writing, from the perspective of writers beginning their careers. Can’t promise we’ll always get it right, or that there even is anything like a right or […]
Melissa Burkart 