Nanowrimo is off for me this year, as I have a Deadline.
Hee. I have a deadline.
I have nothing but a bottle of Izze and my will to get me there. Onward!
But first, have a snippet. I like snippets.

The Good the Bad the Unread.
This one doesn’t make me quite so jubilant, though I can understand the reviewer’s point about technical issues. Something to watch out for while I’m revising Something Beautiful, at least.
And this makes it all better:
The fact is, I felt like crying when I finished this book because I became attached [...]

From Rainbow Reviews:
All of the situations and strong characters combined to a phenomenal story about life, love, and what real people go through to find their path to everlasting love.
This calls for a great big WOOMCH!

So there’s been plagirism wank.
I have three thoughts about this, which I will get to eventually:

this so needs to be a drinking game
the perils of POD publishing houses
people like being authors but not being writers

One. The drinking game.

Vehement denial of all wrongdoing: take a sip.
Threatening the people who discovered/exposed the plagirism: take a sip
Blaming the [...]

How to Write a Book
My favorite is number 7: “Never have a mental breakdown before 11 p.m.”
Oh, I know that feeling.
My absolute favorite book about writing, by the way, is The Unstrung Harp by Edward Gorey. It’s not about how to write a novel. It’s about what it’s like to write one.

This is so frustrating.
I had ideas while I was at work, so I scribbled them down in my notebook for when I came home.
And now I’m home, and I’m tired and my eyes hurt (I have eyestrain far too often) and my brain feels like sludge. I need to retrain my brain to have these [...]