Get finished. You’re almost there. Go for it!

I’ve taken some writing courses over the last few months, and I’m learning a lot. I’ve hit a point where I’m starting to look for / see techniques that other authors are using. It’s weird, reading this way, where you notice a technique, and you might think that it takes you out of the story, but it hasn’t done that yet.

Download GSGNaNoGaiden Ep #27

Your book may not be what you thought it would be when you started. You may have gone down a number of rabbit holes, taken left turns at Albequerque, and this may not be what you really wanted.

So what? You’ve got three days to write. Keep going. Don’t worry about it right now – make it as good as you can in this moment. And when we get into December, go back and edit the holy bejeebers out of it.

Hello, listeners.

It’s Black Friday, and traditionally, people have sales on Black Friday.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Enjoy!

Download GSGNaNoGaiden Ep #24

I hope you and your family have a great holiday season. And I hope you’re writing like the dickens! Seeing as how Dickens was a writer, that’s even more appropriate.

Cross-posted at Geek Survival Guide.

You’ve got a first draft coming together. And that’s great! But please, please don’t think that it’s a finished book. You’ve made batter. But is it a waffle? A pancake? A Chocolate Cake? Tempura? Maybe it’s bread dough, and it needs to be kneaded, allowed to rise, kneaded again, put in a greased bread pan, and left in an oven to come out and be slathered in soft butter and raspberry huckleberry jam just like mom makes. (Yeah, my mom makes homemade raspberry huckleberry jam. You may now be jealous.)

Cross-posted at www.geeksurvivalguide.org.

I’m at the library for a write-in, and don’t really have access to my desktop PC – just this Chromebook and my iPhone. So I recorded this episode on the phone, mailed it to myself, and have uploaded it.

Upside – we have a podcast.

Downside – it’s in m4a format, not mp3. Which shouldn’t be a big problem for any computer nor for most audio players now available on the market. But some time tonight, I’ll convert it and re-upload.

Cross-posted at geeksurvivalguide.org.

Day 21, you should be 35,007 words in. And Loving It!

But if you’re not, you can change it. If what you’re writing is boring you, if it seems like a drudgery to write, that will come through. So make it exciting – compelling – emotionally involving!

And that will come through too!

Enjoy!

Download GSG NaNo Gaiden Ep #21

Cross-posted at geeksurvivalguide.org.

Okay, so, I totally forgot to record episode 19. (The LOST EPISODE! Oooooooh!) Actually, no. I wrote 6000 words yesterday, and totally spaced the podcast.

But here’s the podcast for day 20.

Enjoy!

Go write.

Download GSG NaNo Gaiden Ep #20

Cross-posted at geeksurvivalguide.org

Today, we rock it OLD SCHOOL STYLE, Baby.

And may I say, it felt sooooooo good to record this. So good, in fact, I recorded it again… and again… and again. Okay, part of that was because I was CONSTANTLY CRACKING UP because it felt SO GOOD to be doing that voice again. Big smile on my face.

I feel so good, in fact, I think I’ll take a nap…

Cross-posted at Geek Survival Guide

Today, we talk about writing advice. That is, better advice than mine.

Here’s those places I think you should go for writing advice.

murverse.com/isbw – I Should Be Writing
writingexcuses.com – Writing Excuses
And terribleminds.com – and here’s that post I read today.

And here’s today’s podcast. Enjoy!

Download GSGNaNoGaiden Ep #17