Screenplay Competition Season
I’ve started getting notifications about screenwriting competitions, which means I need to decide which ones I’m going to pelt with screenplays. I’m considering blowing off Austin this year–I won’t have anything new until Script Frenzy,...Or, maybe what I need is a lack of distractions.
1533 words written today, for a total of 4582. That’s almost NaNoWriMo productive. Note to self: Distraction=Evil.No, it’s definitely stalled.
I’m not sure what’s up with the story, but it’s at 3049 words and just doesn’t want to move at all. Maybe this is the equivalent of the NaNoWriMo week two, and I should try to plow forward. Maybe I should set an arbitrary wordcount and do it...200 words, yay! or something.
Last night, I added 200 words to a story I hadn’t touched in over a year. I really like the story, so I hope this means I’m going to finish it now. Of course, I’m also wibbling that I think you can tell where the join is, blah blah, but I should just...Happy New Year!
May all y’all have a wonderful 2007.New Year’s Resolutions
Yes, it’s the obligatory New Year’s resolutions post! I’m sure you can hardly wash. Yay! Write more. I did poorly with the short story deadlines, but maybe they were too short. One short story a month, excepting March, June, and November, which...Year in Review
Short stories completed: 1 Scripts completed: 1 Novel first drafts completed: 1 Short stories that somehow morphed into novels-in-progess: 2 Short stories that were pulled from circulation and completely rewritten: 1 Short story submissions: 32 Short story rejections:...I can promise you…
Dear Circe, I can promise you that you’ll never have to take another pill, will never need any more bloodwork. There will be no more vet visits. No more sucky car rides. Goodbye, little ballerina kitty, who two months ago could jump over my head at the ripe old...My favorite Christmas tree past…
One year, not too long after my parents had divorced, my mother tearfully announced that there would be no Christmas this year and stormed off to work. No money, you see. It just so happened that my mother also used to rescue half-dead plants from the office and nurse...Subscribe
