Write Anything

From the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) website:
2005: 59,000 participants and 9,769 winners
2006: 79,000 participants and 13,000 winners
2007: 101,510 participants and 15,333 winners
A “winner” is one who actually completes the challenge to write 50,000 words during the month of November.
Not a great success rate.
Last year, I gave serious consideration to participating. But I don’t [...]

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Pat Ruppel at Plain Talk and Ordinary Wisdom is one of my favorite bloggers.  Recently, she wrote Defining Words, discussing a theory about language, i.e., that one, single word can be used to describe a city, the dominant mindset of its citizens or . . . an individual.
I have many writing tools to which I [...]

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Judd Corizan, from whom I acquired The Rising Blogger, recently launched Sunday Stealing. Each Sunday, they rip off a meme from another blogger — giving full credit and a link back to that author’s site, of course — and invite everyone to play along.
This week, Judd, et al. ripped off The Meme About Blogging [...]

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Yesterday, Paul reflected on last week’s [Friday] Fiction exercise: “Pick a book of fiction you’d never read (e.g., if you read sci-fi, pick a romance). Open to a random page and read the last couple paragraphs of the page. DO NOT TURN THE PAGE. Now continue writing the story. Feel free to change the [...]

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