Cleaning up the links.

Attention span.
Mine’s short, but I refuse to refer to it as an ADD or ADHD situation as I believe those are mythical conditions created by a lazy physician and parent base. We’ll explore that opinion in another column…if I have enough where-with-all to remember.
My contention today is that it’s time to simplify. Everything. As soon [...]

Complete. 50,008 words and counting.

I’ve completed the Nanowrimo challenge and written my 50K words in the month of November. Now it’s on to editing and smoothing out the manuscript.
I can’t put into words - maybe because I’ve used so many in the past three weeks - how great this feels and how energizing this task has been.
Thanks for your [...]

Leaving something in the tank.

It’s about 11:55 on Wednesday night and I just wrapped up my writing for the night. OK, this is also writing but it’s stream-of-consciousness and easy to jot down.
I wanted to share with you a quick thought about my writing during NaNoWriMo. Each night when I finish up a paragraph or a sentence, I do [...]

Words are piling up.

Not in the election, because by the time most of you read this you’ll have voted. No, words are piling up nicely in my quest to complete NaNoWriMo.
Look over in the right sidebar and see the wordcount widget. It shows you where I stand after four days of participating in the 2008 NaNoWriMo event.
Unfortunately, my [...]

Dinosaurs and Leprechauns. The elements of any story.

Years ago I was a guest speaker to Mrs. Cordani’s second-grade class in Beverly, Massachusetts. I won’t lie and say the experience changed me, but I will tell you that it taught me a lesson.
Know your audience.
I went into the classroom prepared to twist and mold little minds and left there with a new understanding [...]

NaNoWriMo. Really!

At my office away from the office (Panera), I tried to see how easy it would be to write 2000 words on a cohesive topic.
The exercise was part of the NaNoWriMo event coming up in less than 15 days. That’s right, National Novel-writing Month is November.
Part of my anxiety - aside from the actual word-count [...]

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