Happy Wednesday, Aledan Merfolk! If you saw me online at all yesterday, I’m sure you know that PUTTING THE SCIENCE IN FICTION is finally out in the world! PSIF is an awesome resource for authors, covering topics from basic lab practices, to how the ocean can kill you (I’m excited for that one!), to the […]
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Happy Friday the 13th, Aledan Merfolk! I’ve had an exciting, busy week, and it’s about to get even more exciting and busy, because YAllFest starts today! I plan to spend the weekend in downtown Charleston, hanging out with author friends and hopefully running into even more author friends! And eating, of course, because you don’t
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Happy Thursday, Aledan Merfolk! We’re on Day 5 of NaNo, and so far writing Enfields has been like pulling teeth. As I’ve mentioned before, the worldbuilding is a hot mess, the beat sheet says helpful things like “something bad happens here”, and most of the cast has no name yet. And I rather suck at
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Happy Thursday, Aledan Merfolk! I don’t even know how it’s already Thursday. Where did the week go? The month? It’s almost Halloween and I don’t even have a costume! Yikes. It’s also almost NaNo time, and my Enfields world building is a mess. An utter mess. But I did switch the gender of the MC’s
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Happy Friday, Aledan Merfolk! I totally forgot that yesterday was Update day, and with all the posting I’ve done in the past week (the return of Custom Pony of the Week AND Science Tuesday!), you’re probably sick of me. Be prepared, because I have another custom this weekend, and plan to post Science Tuesday again
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There are at least two types of Nano-ers. The first type is religiously on top of things: staying up until midnight to get those first few words, waking up early to write before work or school, using lunches, breaks, dinner and dessert to up their word count. Then there is the second type. They go to
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So, tomorrow another sticky will be going up, but today I wanted to talk about NaNoWriMo. For those of you who don’t know it yet, November is National Novel Writing Month, where you write a 50,000 word book in a month. What do you win if you succeed? A little graphic of a man running with