Category Archives: Writing

The Internal Editor: Sometimes Forcible Confinement Is Best

Lock the little guy up and get some work done.

It’s NaNo Eve: In which I frantically try to come up with a plot…

And fail? Only time will tell. Join me in NaNo-ing if you dare.

This is how my day starts …

If I don’t find a business name soon & stop having these conversations there may be bloodshed. Not kidding.

Bookish news links

No review today as I’ve been plotting and writing (and reading interferes with my world building), but I’m reinstituting an irregular feature here at Booklorn where I round up some interesting links of what is going on in publishing. At most it will be weekly, but if I don’t find anything of general interest it…

The bumpy road of book blogging

Negative reviews are the risk of publishing a book. No matter how a book gets to a reader, they have the right to express an opinion of the book — these days that opinion frequently ends up on online cataloging sites, online retailers, and yes, book blogs. Most authors, 99.9% I would venture to guess,…

Do you Nano?

Well, do you? I do. If you do too, feel free to be my “buddy” on NaNoWriMo.org. You’ll find me under the name Anysia (which means complete in, erm, some language, so I thought it was fitting for writing a novel — or at least the draft). I’ve seen some NaNo participant buttons on book…

Come to a Virtual Writer’s Conference

I was checking out the (excellent) plotting workshop over at Lynn Viehl’s blog and thought that I’d mention it here in case there are any other avid readers who are also writers hanging around. Lynn had the excellent idea to have workshops for those of us who can’t make it to the Romance Writers of…