Sharing work-in-progress can’t be that scary… can it? Guess I’ll find out.

The Man, the Muse and the Monster — or — OH CRAP! NaNoWriMo starts this weekend

November 1st. Write a novel in a month. Starts THIS Sunday.

How To Hook Your Reader

“If you start a novel by giving your characters an urgent task to perform, and if you establish the fact that something awful will happen if they fail to complete the task within a short period of time, you have created an almost irresistible curiosity in your readers.”

Dean Koontz, from his book Best Selling Fiction, p. 98.

Last year was the first time I did NaNoWrimo. The best advice I got was to have an app that crossed over on my iPhone, iPad and my desktop computer ( I used Google Docs), so I could write anywhere, anytime. I found myself writing while waiting for appointments in doctors offices, in my car while waiting to pickup my son, at the library, in coffee…