Author: Michell

Well… Nano is officially on and despite my earlier bravado, I am somewhat concerned.  I just started a new job on October 1st with a brand-new company.  Oddly, that has meant that my focus isn’t quite on Nano which means that I’m not quite as prepared as I would like to be. Still, even though I have some butterflies flitting around in my stomach, I am excited at the opportunity to write another book.  I was out for my mid-day stroll with a friend of mine and we were talking about my last Nano experience.  As we were talking I realized just how much it meant to me.  I know this one will be even better. As I’m writing this […]

By this time, one week from today, some folks will already be at 10,000 words on their Nanowrimo book. Pretty crazy, wouldn’t you say?  I know I certainly would. Still, last year there were a couple people who claimed to be done their 50,000 words by day 2.  I suppose it’s possible, but I shudder to think what the quality of those 50,000 words were. Maybe it went something like this:  “all work and no play makes mike a dull boy… all work and no play makes mike a dull boy… all” well you get the idea. If it were me, I’d rather not bother at all. No, I think I will take the high road and actually try to write something […]

OK, I’ll admit it, I’ve been procrastinating the past few months.  I haven’t been fighting to get my “Mik Murdoch” book ready to send out. For those of you keeping score, “Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero” is the second book I’ve written.  I actually wrote it last year during Nanowrimo.  It turned out so much better than I expected that I plan to send it out to publishers. There are two problems with that plan, though:  (1) Editing and (2) Synopsis. I know darn well that I can’t edit my own stuff with anything but a strong personal bias.  That means I won’t be getting the book into the best shape it can be if I don’t get outside help. I have put […]

My good friend Aaron has done it again.  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, please go back a day and read his previous post.  That should clue you in to what I mean. What?  You still don’t know?  I’m being overly obscure?  Even Aaron doesn’t know what I’m talking about? Honestly people, I thought you had all learned to read minds by now. But you are correct.  I am being a bit unclear.  Perhaps it is just my own paranoid, ego-centric self seeing things that aren’t there, but I could have sworn that Aaron was challenging me to another Nanowrimo. Even Terry is getting into the act.  I heard him clearly say that he had successfully completed the last […]