Writing

on 2007/09/27 by tinygreyhound, [Writing]

Waaay back in the day, I took a college English course on Romance Novels. (I love a good romance novel.) One of our assignments was to write a chapter of a romance in a particular style. I wrote a chapter of a Harlequin style contemporary romance. I struggled. A lot. I got a pretty crummy [...]

on 2007/09/27 by NewMexicoKid, [Writing]

October is swiftly approaching and my 2007 NaNoWriMo novel idea still lacks most of its plot. What am I to do? Well, this is one starting point (click on the image to jump to the full diagram): I decided to use Freemind in a brainstorming exercise and I thought about memorable novels and the key [...]

on 2007/09/10 by NewMexicoKid, [NaNoWriMo,Writing]

There are times when I find it difficult to get my creative engine started in generating plot, characters, settings, etc. for my story writing. Inspiration isn’t something that easily comes on demand, particularly if you spend a large portion of your day doing analytical tasks. So I spent a little bit of time stumbling to [...]

on 2007/09/08 by NewMexicoKid, [Writing]

Noted children’s author Madeleine L’Engle passed away September 8th. She was one of my favorite authors while I was growing up. I loved the passion and neat concepts in her Wrinkle In Time series. She wrote more than 60 books and will be much missed.