10/20/2003 9:36 AM So I’m trying to figure out which voice to listen to–the one that says, “Do this,” or the one that says, “Don’t.” I’m going a little crazy here. I get in these ridiculous little arguments with myself about which one to listen to, which makes yet a THIRD voice in my head. [...]

10/19/2003 8:42 AM Off we go…into the wild blue yonder… Yes, I’m doing the good old 2500 words a day thing again. A little voice told me just now to get my ass in gear. NaNoWriMo is less than two weeks away and I need to have some habits started by then, so this is [...]

The Snowflake Process for Writing

It is becoming painfully clear that if I want to write this or any other book, ever, I must give up the Internet. I can’t even fire up Eudora to check my email any more. It sucks me in so deeply that I don’t come up for air all day. I’ve developed web gills; I [...]

I’m having a problem with outlining. Like how should I do it–or should I do it at all? When I’ve written outlines in the past, I lost interest before I even got down to writing… and we all know what happens when someone with ADD [that's me] loses interest: nada. OTOH, I think an outline [...]