Author of the Small Worlds series
At this point in NaNo, you’re probably in one of two places. You might be well ahead of the game, and you’re looking at your word count total and smiling and nodding to yourself, perfectly happy with how you’re doing. On the other hand, you might have realized that you’ve fallen behind, and are starting …
Continue reading 3 Reasons You Should Be Doing Writing Sprints
So we’re deeper into NaNo, and you’ve hopefully found a way to stay motivated. That’s awesome, and you should absolutely keep it up! However, you might be feeling a different kind of burnout. The kind that comes not from working too hard, but from doing the same thing every day, and feeling yourself getting tired …
Hey everyone! We are, as of today, ten days into National Novel Writing Month. If you’re on track, you’re 16,667 or so words into your project. If you’re an overachiever, you’re much higher than that. (My friend is on 28,578, which doesn’t make me feel like a snail at all.) If you’re not on track, …
As I’ve mentioned before, I used to be a pure pantser. I’d go into a story, screaming with excitement, and run with it, just seeing where it took me. No outline, no road map, no plan. Sometimes, that would lead to weird and wonderful things that I never expected. Other times, it lead me to …
Continue reading How I Outline my Novels – From a Recovering Panster
In last week’s post about preparing for NaNo, I mentioned Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, since it was born out of a NaNoWriMo project and because it’s just a really good novel. I tend to stay in my comfort zone of genre fiction and rarely step outside of it, but this is one of …
Still super stoked that the Weird Theology audiobook is now on sale. (You can check it out here). That also means it's officially time for me to focus on my next project. We are just a few days away from the start of National Novel Writing Month, abbreviated to NaNoWriMo or just NaNo, the annual celebration …
I’m so pleased to be able to announce that Weird Theology is now available as an audiobook performed by Brandon McKernan. It’s amazing to hear my words brought to life like this, and I’m so excited to be able to share it with you all! It’s available through Audible and Amazon, with iTunes coming soon …
