An Open-Letter Rant Regarding the Arbitrivial Nature of Human Beings.
Writing is ALL THESE THINGS. Writing is pretending that someone just asked you what happened. If you know exactly what happened, you’re really excited and can’t wait to get the story out. You’re like, And then THIS, and then THAT, and CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!? And you trip over yourself getting the words out fast enough to keep […]
And this is why I love A Round of Words in 80 Days. It makes me do things. So that then I can proudly proclaim to all… I DID THINGS! I did things: Writing things. While I have done a bunch of administrative house-cleaning on my work-in-progress, THE HEART OF THE GREENE, I haven’t really […]
The first Wednesday of every month is Insecure Writers Support Group day. To kick off a brand new year, we invite all Insecure Writers to introduce yourself. Who I Be: I’m Andi-Roo. I read. I rant. I write. I don’t smoke. I don’t drink coke. That’s because I almost died. And by the time I was […]
What’s up Wenzday… My Work-in-Progress {WIP}! Got some administrative tasks to take care of this week: Combining my “two” projects into one. The Greene is my ongoing WIP that stalled out, causing me to come at it from a different perspective. Wizard, Warrior, and Heart is the story that came from that alternate point of […]
I failed again. If that’s how you want to look at it. I mean, I added over 10,000 words to my novel, which is not small. And they are pretty good, so there’s that. And I discovered some character connections I hadn’t realized existed, so now we have more background stuff. And I regained enthusiasm […]
NaNoWriMo 2014 Week 1 update: I am behind. That’s no surprise. The surprise is that I am not WOEFULLY behind. I am still tooling along. I have not thrown in the towel. And I have maintained enthusiasm for my NaNoWriMo project. Day 10 word count goal: 16,670 words Current word count: 9,180 words Maths: 7,490 words […]
Urban Fantasy is NOT what I write. Urban Fantasy is cool though. I mean, I like it enough that I attended a workshop on the subject while roaming the halls at Context. The lecture was given by Lucy A. Snyder { via Twitter}, author of the Jessie Shimmer series, and I really enjoyed learning more about […]
I suck at art but fuggit. No really. I do. I mean, it’s kind of horrible and sad how much I suck at art. And for many years, I let tha t fact keep me from exploring anything involving the world “creativity” because I don’t like trying out something at which I already know I […]
