NaNoWriMo Starts Tomorrow
And I’m a little sad not to be doing it. I know I wrote a whole blogpost about why I’m not doing it, but still, I miss it. I miss the competitiveness of it all mostly, I think. The competition with myself mostly, the trying to beat my last five minute word war word count […]
Long term writing updates
I was looking through some old blogposts, on a different site so don’t go looking for them here, that were writing related updates. I thought it could be amusing/interesting to revisit these old updates and see what became of these stories. And then I decided to do the same to one from here from last […]
The Hardest Part of Writing A Novel . . .
. . . is coming up with fucking titles! Synopsis of story (as planned, details will, of course, change): Quinn is a middle-aged ladies’ man. Renata is one of his closest friends and occasional bedmate. He’s fallen in love with her. Not lust, not infatuation, love. He doesn’t want to admit this. He feels he’s too […]
Yay!
I just solved a plot problem in No More Lies that’s been bothering me since late 2013 when I wrote the first draft of the section I’m currently revising! I’ve known since pretty much when I wrote it that the section would need drastic cuts . . . one of those times when an idea works much better […]
Why my characters swear so damned much
(The title is the first way I thought of titling this post and was too perfect to not use.) I’d never really thought about how much swearing there is in my books until it was pointed out in a review. The review said that Lyndsey “likes to swear”. This struck me as an odd statement. I […]
“Aaaaugh! Stop saying the word!”
Today I was reading a review blog that I generally like, but used to like a lot more than I do now. There are various reasons for this, but the one that prompted this blogpost is that the blogger puts things like this: “The original text contains the use of the words “mad” and […]
Fuck you, Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word fucking hates me. I’ve long suspected this; today, I have proof. I noticed a couple of places in a short story I was about to submit where, for no apparent reason, there were smart quotes instead of boring ass quotes. (Well, I think I know the reason for some: I forgot to turn […]