NoWriMo: 3 Tips for Beating the Mid-Month Crisis

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Pre-NaNo Advice Column

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Finishing your first draft

Scrivener

Scrivener (Literature and Latte for Mac OS X) is a wonderful tool for your book or ebook project. I have it on my Mac and was impressed with how quickly I could see my projects at a glance and each of the components therein. The site has solid video tutorials and the software developer, Keith (KB), runs a forum on the site and is responsive to questions (remember to look through this awesome resource prior to asking a question though). You can check it out for a free trial period and if you like it pick it up for $45 USD. If you poke around the NaNoWriMo site though, you might find a coupon that'll save you $10 or so (at least I did when I picked up my copy).

Reporter's Desktop

Here's a resourse that's been around for a long time, the Reporter's Desktop.  It hasn't been updated in a year but it is still good to go. Adding it to the writer's resource section of this site today.

POEMS: twenty cents each

POEMS: twenty cents each

BY: Mary Ann Archibald
ISBN: 978-1-4581-1312-2
PUBLISHER: Smashwords


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The thoughtful prose reflect insights rooted in commonplace places, things and events. A hot bubbling pot of fudge evokes a moment in the kitchen, and the sweet, yet hot moment of interaction between mother and daughter. Brass winds its way to demonstrate that commodities of today have a broader affect on the world than just our own motives. The river offers the reader a moment of quiet and asks, what would the world would be like if we were not here. Civic duty is light, if you have a dog, especially a small one, you can probably relate. In a mock orange bush, the author pokes fun at herself while recalling the heady scent of a mock orange bush, evoking world peace. Poems, twenty cents each comprises five poems.

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Trylle Trilogy

Switched by Amanda Hocking

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I read all three of these books in the Trylle series and am hoping she'll write more. I felt like I had stumbled into a Tolkien type of world in these books. There is a levity in this series that I found in the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings that is missing from a lot of other reads, which I really enjoyed. So nice to feel good about the world once you set a book down.



Yes, there are some typos in the first book but they lessen by the third (she picked up an editor by the third book, it appears). Nothing too distracting. The strength of the characters outshines any minor technical glitch.



A word to the wise: when you buy the first book, pick up the second and third at the same time, if you're like me, you'll want to devour them all at once.



Happy reading!



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Book reviews coming up

I'm excited about the prospect of writing book reviews on this blog. I just finished reading the first two books in  Amanda Hocking's Tryelle series. Amanda Hocking is a novelist in her mid-20s who wrote in her spare time while working at a group home. Her books didn't get picked up by traditional publishers so she published them herself. The rest is history. People want more! Including me.

Hopefully I'll read the third book this weekend, after the payment I just made to my credit card clears so that the the payment for the third ebook will go through. (Over the limit. Cough.)

A word to the wise in the meantime though: if you're going to pick up Amanda Hocking's trilogy, pick them up at all at once. I can't imagine not reading the rest of this series if I had only bothered with the first and right now, as I'm tapping my toes, waiting for my credit card payment to clear, I wish I had the third in hand. It would probably be finished by now. (Something I wish I knew when I was debating whether or not I should buy it in the first place, lol).