A widget of my NaNo completion stats; if you want more details, check out this link. To donate, you can subscribe to our Patreon and become a monthly donor or, for one-time donors, go through our PayPal. It’s the start of National Novel Writing Month and I’m going to dedicate my messy 50,000 words towards […]
A builder working on the ranna ghor (kitchen) at our village home. I set out at the beginning of November with the intention to prioritize myself over my worries, and the universe replied: “you sure about that?” A few weeks ago, I made a chart of what has been pulling at my attention. It takes […]
I have a piece out in The Atlantic today! For me, this is a huge milestone and also a very important piece, so give it a read. A chocolate cake with red jello balls on top. It’s the day before NaNo and all through the house… I’m throwing around drafts and outlines trying to get […]
I haven’t been very creative as of late. My blog has shriveled to a post a week, I have not committed myself to daily creative time, and my energy has been slowly flagging as the temperatures dip lower and lower here in NYC. So you may be wondering how I will possibly write 50,000 words […]
Allow me to take the liberty of using this post as blatant self-congratulation. I won National Novel Writing Month, and this morning I really didn’t think it was possible. But, after some well-timed procrastination, in just this day alone, I wrote 15,000 words and FINISHED! Good luck to everyone that is still chugging along – […]
This is just a short post that’s going to roll in under the radar – I’ve been trying to furiously catch up on word count today, so I’ve written 3000+ words and have come up to 25,150. I need to be at 30,006 by tomorrow at midnight, so between then and now I have to […]
Pressure building up, Holding on to my reason, Storing up my time. Still working on the NaNo, and all my other projects – I hope to take some time for myself to just calm down, so Thanksgiving break will be that time. Let me know if you want to hang out because I’ll be in […]
Today I worked on just about everything but NaNo, which I told myself that I was going to catch up on completely. I did not write one word all weekend and, as a consequence, have to write 6107 words at least by tonight’s end to be on track. I think I can do it, but […]
I have had a lot of embarrassing moments in my writing career.Looking back on it now, it seems that my childhood addiction was paper. I have half-finished or quarter-finished or even one-page-out-of-150 finished journals lying about my house, ones that have not been cracked open for years (fortunately, nowadays I am re-using that paper for […]
I can already tell that Wednesdays and Thursdays are going to be the hardest ones to keep up on NaNo. After returning to school and not having the entire day to gallavant off into novel land, I have been slammed with late hours and been mired in writer’s block.But, all is not lost. Pushing NaNo […]