Thank you to bestselling author Delilah Devlin, for graciously offering Rachel and me a guest post today. I wrote about NaNoWriMo (of course!) and give some details about what all the madness entails. Stop by today, and comment please! (That way, it will look like I have friends – grin!)
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Should You NaNo?
Join me today at the Writer\’s Retreat Blog, where I answer the question of whether or not to NaNo!
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And the Craziness Begins!
NaNoWriMo officially begins today! Have you signed up? If so, I\’m a.catherine.noon on the NaNoSite, so please come friend me.
What is NaNo, you ask? It\’s that craziness that is November! Every year in November, National Novel Writing Month encourages thousands of people to write, and many of them complete the 50,000 goal – and more! – and come away with completed novel drafts. It\’s great fun!
Check it out, and the NaNoWriMo site!
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Dragons!
Come visit me today Beyond the Veil. I share my love of dragons and stitchery, and some of my super sekrit places to get great stitchery kits. Enjoy!
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Dragons and Werewolves and Paranormal, Oh My!
Join me as I share some of my thoughts on dragons, werewolves, and the paranormal in fiction and television and movies, today at Beyond the Veil.
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My First Post Is Up on Silken Sheets!
I recently joined a group blog, called Silken Sheets & Seduction. As part of our launch, we are giving away some amazing prizes, including an e-reader loaded with 50 ebooks.
My first post, \”What Is Sexy To Me,\” is up and ready for your perusal. Check it out – and please leave a comment; we love \’em!
Enjoy!
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Silken Sheets & Seduction Launch Party!
Silken Sheets & Seduction is going live in 2.5 hours! To celebrate, we are giving away a Kindle loaded with over 35 books, as well as several other amazing prizes. Check out our trailer on You Tube today!
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Two New Posts
I\’m blogging at Beyond the Veil this month on Classic Television and shows that I loved when I was younger. It was fun digging into my memory and examining what shows I used to like, because they inform what I like now.
Then, over on Samhain Publishing\’s blog, I talk about \”When In Doubt, Knit\”. What kinds of things do you do when you are stalled for ideas, to get yourself going again?
It\’s fun to write on group blogs, and I\’m pleased to be part of these two. It\’s a little awe-inspiring since I\’m around authors with a great deal more experience than me. I\’m grateful to be included with them.
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A Poem for Saturday
Have you ever experienced a moment when reading a piece, where it feels that the author somehow wrote it directly for you without even being aware of it? Some call that Kizmat, others synchronicity. Me, I find it startling. Creepy, even. Particularly if it feels like the author has a webcam into my life and writes things that will work for whatever moment I\’m feeling the moment I\’m reading their words. Julia Cameron does that, a lot.
Poet Sarah Fuhro did it this week. I want to share with you her lovely poem. Enjoy.
It\’s Almost Time
It\’s almost time,
almost time for the change in light
but almost time for the poor and weak to reach out
their trembling hands to each other and to grasp.It\’s almost time for the kind to smile
and be seen
in all their glory,
for the shift in power.It\’s almost time for the silenced to sing
and for the earth to receive the sweet rain
of justice as it falls on ploughed fields.It\’s almost time to be brave
and to go the next step without knowing how.It\’s almost time for the knowledge of the Moon
to rise in the dark sky and let us know
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Staying the Course
Today being Sunday has got me in a pensive mood. I think, as writers, we tend to think a lot about method: what is our method, what is the method of writers we admire or want to emulate, and what should our method be in order to be better – better authors, better sellers, better writers, better people.
At the end of the day, though, none of that matters. If the story we have to tell gets told, then we\’ve done well. Getting to the page, or to the keyboard, is the important victory. We may cry and gnash our teeth on the way there, but if we get there, then we\’ve won.
Writing can be a release from stress and it can be a stressor. It is, always, the truth of itself: it is nothing less than what we see, day in and day out, moment by moment. We may write what we see in literal terms, or we may write what we see on the screen of our minds. If we\’re lucky, others will find solace in what stories we tell. But tell them, we must: our job description is \”storyteller,\” after all.
Someone remarked to me recently that they weren\’t certain that all stories deserve to be told. I disagree. I think there is room in the Great Conversation for the inane and the mundane. I think it is true that not all stories deserve an audience, nor should all stories want one. Sometimes the painful truth is that we may, ourselves, believe that our story should have one, but the reality is there isn\’t one. Does that mean we shouldn\’t write it? That we should muzzle ourselves in favor of the peace of the world? Not bother the silence with our noise?
No. If we have a story, and we each of us do, then we should tell it. We should struggle with the pen or the keyboard and wrestle that minotaur. Worrying about where to send it when we\’re done is not the job of the storyteller. That is a job for later, when we put on the hat of author and learn the business of publishing. But many good stories are told, every day, by people to whom publishing is anathema. And many other stories aren\’t told that should be, that fester in silence because the writer forgot the one and most important rule:
If you See it, Write it.
Story is God.
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Characters I Love
I have great news! I am humbled and pleased and excited, all at the same time. I have been accepted into the Beyond the Veil community of authors. These are some amazingly talented paranormal and science fiction/fantasy authors. It\’s an honor to be included.
Today is my inaugural post, and the theme for August is Characters You Love ~ Or Love to Hate. Here\’s my take on it.