NaNoWriMo 2011 Winner--Yes, That's Me!

I cannot believe I did it.   I logged in 50,582 words at the NaNoWriMo word count verifier a few minutes ago .  Over 50K words in less than ...

Six Sentence Sunday (November 27)

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.  I thought of you all last Thursday, you lucky people with big turkey dinners on your tables, surroun...

Bluebell Books Short Story Slam -- Week 15

And because there is no time--that's why I'm here, he said. I don't understand, I said. You don't have to.  It's just ab...

On Gratitude

Ah...  All you turkey-lovers, I salute you.  I imagine you sitting around a huge, totally loaded table, surrounded by family and friends, mo...

Six Sentence Sunday (November 20)

One more six-sentence snippet from Chapter 7 of  the WIP (Restoring Experience) , a novel about loss and the search for meaning to give that...

The Vagaries of (Verb) Tense Consistency

Another fantastic list from  The Writer's Resource , this time on verb tense consistency.  Their post today on  Maintaining Verb Consist...

The NaNo Blog Hop

Somewhere in the backlog of Google Reader posts I'm trying so hard to keep up with, I found a reference to a NaNo blog hop...   And I th...

NaNoWriMo Update

Whoa...  Broke 30K last night.  Thirty thousand eighty words, according to the NaNo word count verifier. Of course, according to ol' Scr...

I discovered authonomy

No, it's not a typo.   Authonomy , although HarperCollins spells it without the initial cap.  What is it?  It's a website where auth...

Six Sentence Sunday (November 13)

Welcome, Six-Sundayers!  Thanks for visiting Quiet Laughter today.  Today's six are the continuation of the conversation between Michael...

More on Revision

I really shouldn't be posting about this now.  I should be focused on NaNo, writing like crazy...  But this post  I just found, from Jan...

More Awards!

Brilliant blogger and darkish author E.R. King of  Get Busy Writing  passed me the Liebster Blog award, the Versatile Blogger Award and the ...

Revision, revision, revision

I found this excellent post on  The Writer's Resource  (if you write and you're not following that blog boo  for you) with links to ...

Six Sentence Sunday (November 6)

First Six Sentence Sunday  of November!  In spite of NaNo (I'm at around 10K there--yay!) I managed to remember to enter the link on tim...