Ramblings of an aspiring writer

Yep, you read that right people, there are only five weeks left before NaNo starts. For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. It’s a contest wherein authors try to write 50,000 words of a novel in the month of November.  (For more information, visit http://www.nanowrimo.org/)
To be completely honest, I’m planning [...]

At some point, most people reading this probably wondered just how long I could keep it up. Well, the answer is not so very long at all. I said from the very first post in the series that I loved On Writing, so there weren’t a ton of things to point out and say, “I [...]

Most writers crave feedback. For some, they only want to hear the good, but most want to hear it all. They might not jump with glee over “that sucks”, but at least they’ll know that they still have work to do. For the purpose of constructive criticism, critique partners/groups and beta readers are essential. Even [...]