Short Story Project: Update 2

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”-Oscar Wilde I've just finished editing/rewriting the first five stories in The Humanity Project.  I'm almost at 16,000 words!   Now on to the next five.At this point I'm crossing my fingers and hoping to be done writing by the end of the…

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Pushing Through

Can't we just pretend today is Monday?  Yeah, let's do that.  Pretend it's Monday and this post is exactly on time. As writers I feel like are a few things everyone of us has heard at least once from other writers. Stuff like: "Just let your characters talk to you and lead the way." Or: "There's…

Proud of Me and The Name Change

This is just another small happy post.   I passed 10,00 words last night and finished the third story titled: "The Circus Manager".   These were the two goals I had to make by at least Monday, and I finished early.    Hooray for me!The other thing I was going to just quickly pop in to say was…

Of Imogen Heap, Happy Creativity and Writing Exercises

Yeah so first off, my very favorite musical artist Imogen Heap is putting out a new album and I am so freaking excited about it that I wanted to post about it.  🙂  If you've never heard her you must, she's amazing.  Here are some of my favorite songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afbvd8g5hMU  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0lCL2hpRPM  and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXj0dF7LAyE Next I…

Short Story Project: Update 1

So it's been about three weeks since I first mentioned my short story project, tentatively named "Those Things Called Humans".   Quite honestly things have been going really slowly.  I've edited two stories and added them to my document, started completely writing another story and then started a fourth.  But this isn't going to be a post…

Gearing up for Nano

Already?  No, okay. Maybe not.  I'm just super excited!!  For those of you who don't know what Nano is, it stands for Nanowrimo or National Novel Writing Month.   It an annual contest in November when people all over the world compete in writing 50,000 words of a single novel. I first stated doing this when…