Yup, I told you I have a staunch rule about NaNoWriMo: If I feel it's going to adversely affect my health, I'm going to stop. So, I'm stopping, but only the NaNo pace and schedule, not the writing. The good news is that even after only a few days, I'm exciting about writing Life in …
Wheee! I know I've been boinging between which one of my WIPs I should work on since completing The Stealth Lovers, but I've made a decision for NaNoWriMo 2019. It's time to go back and finish the sequel to Life in the ’Cosm. Yup, Life in Another ’Cosm: Jinny from the Blog will be my …
Continue reading NaNoWriMo 2019: I’m taking the plunge again!
I have a really cool problem. I've got something that might distract me from writing each day for NaNoWriMo 2018—the Nothing Without Us anthology. It's a project I'm co-editing with my BFF and sensitivity editor Talia C. Johnson. NWU, as we nicknamed it, is going to be a collection of short stories for and by authors who identify …
Continue reading To NaNo or not to NaNo? That is the question.
Inspired by Derek Newman-Stille of Speculating Canada fame, I’ve decided to take his recommendation and turn a short story of mine into a novel. This will be my first space opera where disabled characters dominate the story.
Okay, I have been converted. As one who once staunchly objected to NaNoWriMo, I get it now. It's a really good motivator. At least for me. I was in such a rut last year with personal stuff and couldn't get out of my own head. All I could manage were short stories. The sequel to …
Well, whaddaya know? I said I wouldn’t do NaNoWriMo again (after I’d completed my first in 2017 and actually hit the 50,000 word goal), but guess what? I’m baaaack! It just happens that I am on a two-month break from my freelance editing day job. I needed time to regroup and refresh, but also to …
Continue reading I’ve gone camping! To Camp NaNoWriMo, that is.
I wish you a safe and peaceful holiday season and all the best for the new year. This year had its challenges, but knowing you were out there supporting me gave me the motivation to continue writing and doing all the things! In 2017, some cool writer stuff happened: My first book, Life in the ’Cosm, …
Continue reading To my fans, readers, fellow authors, and those who tolerate me…
Can I haz a rest now? Wheeeeew! I’m now officially at the half-way mark of NaNoWriMo: Day 15. I gave myself a bit of a break today and stopped at 555 words. (Funny number, eh? Not even planned!) My observations at this point? Yeah, I am so not doing this again. While it’s been great …
In the words of a famous fable: Slow and steady wins the race. If that’s true, then call me the Tortoise of NaNoWriMo. Through the use of my mathematical genius, I calculated that I need to write 1670 words a day to reach just over the 50K marker for the National Novel Writing Month’s finish …
Continue reading Eight days into NaNoWriMo, and I’m okay, folks!
I have done the thing that I swore I'd never do—I'm actively working on several books at once. Gone are my linear days, it seems. But: EVERYTHING'S FINE! I think. My mind is somehow keeping up with these multiple projects. First, there's Life in Another ’Cosm: Jinny from the Blog, the second book in the ’Cosm series. …
Cait Gordon—author and editor 