Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all have an awesome, Hansony year. 2011 wasn’t a good year for me in a lot of ways. I made several hanfic resolutions on this blog and failed to keep most of them. But I’m determined to do all I can to make 2012 better; hopefully everything that’s out of my control with will cooperate this time, too.
End of NaNo, beginning of new spotlights!
I’m not good at coming up with creative titles for these blogs. Oh well. So, now that November is over, we can talk a deep breath and step back from the keyboards. Because NaNoWriMo is officially over. How did you guys do? I finished up on Sunday, three days early. Not too shabby. I still have around a chapter left to write to complete the story, but my 50k is done. The only problem with NaNo is that by the
Half-way there!
Well, I said I would post often to check in with everyone else doing NaNoWriMo, but I’ve gotten so wrapped up in the writing that my plan of checking in sort of fell by the wayside. Oops. So, the month is halfway over and so is my novel. It’s nice when it works out that way. I know some people who are really struggling, either because of plot problems or real life issues, like I did last year. The key
NaNaWrimo, anyone?
So, it’s almost November. That means new monthly spotlights. It also means the entire writing world online is about to be consumed by NaNoWrimo. For those not in the know, NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. Basically, it’s to challenge yourself to writing a 50k word novel in 30 days. Sounds hard, right? But thousands and thousands of people do it every year, with most coming back year after year to try again.
New new new!
I’m so happy to be posting here again! I’m stealing some wifi right now so I can update you guys on what’s going on around here, and I’ve been saving up lots of stuff to update. Here’s a list of what’s new: Slightly belated October spotlights, featuring Amber, Use For Your Words and Addicted by Chi. A few new awards added to Extemporaneous. My new short story, People Call Us Renegades, from Taking The Leap is posted here now. My
