Random Blather

Okay, so I should update my blog more often. I should make that new theme I've been thinking about making. I should do a whole bunch of different things. However, I have done a whole bunch of stuff this year. so I think I should be excused. Still, I will try to mend my ways.

So far this year:

JanNoWriMo: No Light in the Dark (95k)

FebNoWriMo/MarNoWriMo: Dispersion (122k)

April Fools/MayNoWriMo: Night Without Stars (76k)

April Fools/MayNoWriMo: Hope (86k)

WriDaNoJu: Dark Star (100k)

JulNoWriMo: Broken Mirror (41k and counting...)

FebNoWriMo was a loss by 2k and MayNoWriMo was only barely a win, but other than that the year has been going pretty well and I've written 664k of my planned 1 million words. I feel good about that.

Anyway, blog updates will soon be forthcoming, more writing will be done and... and there probably isn't really an 'and'. Oh, Leroy said he's going to start posting as well. I'll let him introduce himself, though...

The shape of books to come...

Since I hardly ever post here (too busy procrastinating on the writing forums), I thought I should share something that came my way. It's about paper books versus e-books and it made me start thinking that as a writer, it really wouldn't be quite the same just being e-published...

Books without batteries

This is definitely an issue I'm going to spend some time over in the course of YeoWDam't. Expect more posts! I'm also inviting my readers to contribute links of their own, hopefully from both sides of the issue.

Siana sucks at posting...

I officially promise that I'm going to do better...

Over the next few weeks (possibly a month or so) I'm going to completely redesign this blog and actually start using it. New topics that you can expect to read about include:

• My works in progress


• My current activities. Mostly, this means comments on whatever WriMo I'm participating in at the time.


• Writing techniques. This is YeoWDam't and if I can't learn a lot about writing throughout the year there really isn't a lot of point doing it.


• Writing resources. This includes lists of websites that give better advice than me, software reviews and all stuff like that.


• Humour. Being me, this is going to involve stuff like interviews with characters, joke writing advice and possibly the odd non-serious short story...

Watch this space for more information about the redesign and new content.

2011: SB's YeoWDam't

I was wondering how to explain something this insane and eventually settled for doing it in interview format. My alter ego often helps me out with character interviews and getting out of plot holes, so I thought she was the best one for the job.

Although I did think about turning it over to one of my characters... Anyway, read on.

NaNoFiMo day 30: completed!

Well, yesterday I completed my NaNoFiMo novel, which was the still unnamed vampire story. It came in at just over 31ooo for the month, making the overall story just a tiny bit longer than The Frozen Tear.

Here are the actual figures:

Started with: 43905

Added: 31653

Final total:  75558

Now on to the next challenge! You can read all about it in my next post.

NaNoFiMo day 6: progress report

Writing: the unnamed vampire story I was working on before NaNoWriMo and The Frozen Tear

Words (Written Today): 2133

Words (Total as of Today): 2759

First Sentence (Written Today):  "Hey Jaden, I was wondering about something," Liselle said.

NaNoFiMo 2010: vampires!

I was going to take a couple of days off and then do a review of what I've learnt from NaNoWriMo, but then I discovered that I've already written 7 k in two days on a new story and I'm being stalked by a main character from the story I was working on before November...