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5 Tips For Boosting Your NaNoWriMo Word Count

October 24, 2011

NaNoWriMo is almost upon us. Writers everywhere are stretching fingers and sharpening pencils, saying farewell to loved ones and clearing schedules to accommodate large blocks of writing time. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to pen 50,000 words within the month of November. Your mission is to get to that word count. There are no rules [...]

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Things That Make Me Happy

March 3, 2011

Click through to visit some random things around the web that are making my inner geek smile today: * The Dalek While-You-Were-Out Note — courtesy of BBC America. I want to print this out and hang it on my door. * If IKEA Were Here Before the Druids — those wordless instructions always make construction [...]

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Five Tips for Increasing your NaNo Word Count

October 11, 2010

NaNoWriMo is almost upon us. Writers everywhere are stretching fingers and sharpening pencils, saying farewell to loved ones and clearing schedules to accommodate large blocks of writing time. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to pen 50,000 words within the month of November. Your mission is to get to that word count. There are no rules [...]

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A Delectation of Supernatural Collective Nouns

October 4, 2010

Most writers with dark sensibilities will know that a group of crows is called a murder; many will know that a group of ravens is an unkindness. The best reference site I’ve found for collective animal groups (and a well-worn bookmark of mine) is actually this one, courtesy of the National Prairie Wildlife Research Center [...]

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Questions Answered

April 1, 2010

Each day, these blog posts collect dozens of comments that aren’t fit to print. Spammers are so inspired by my posts that they write in to tell me all about their lives and their creative endeavors, and even their personal bedroom secrets and the medications that enrich their private lives! I have one spam-bot that [...]

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Knowing the Formula

March 11, 2010

Writing advice will often tell you that you have to know the formula in order to break it. Nothing makes that rule clearer than comedy does. As I mentioned last Thursday on National Grammar Day, without an appreciation for the rules of Grammar, we wouldn’t have the basic framework to understand why LOLcats and Oddly [...]

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Have a picture of a cat.

January 7, 2010

There’s nothing I can say today. Instead, I turn to our friends at I Can Has Cheezburger:

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Exacting Standards?

June 11, 2009

…Yes. (But it’s still not a crapshoot!) Click through the image of Tuesday’s comic (above) and continue forward — it seems to be the start of a story arc!

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Bard-inspired

April 20, 2009

William Shakespeare was baptized April 26, 1564 and died April 23, 1616. Whether you’re celebrating his birth or commemorating his death, this is the Bard’s week. There are a lot of Shakespeare-inspired gifts out there. Far more than I could spotlight or even list in a single post. They could fill a whole blog by [...]

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Evil Monkey’s Guide to Kosher Imaginary Animals

March 23, 2009

It’s just a couple short weeks until the start of Passover (the holiday comes early this year: sundown on Wednesday, April 8th). As you’re beginning your holiday preparation, keep a copy of the guide to kosher imaginary animals nearby. It’s hard enough to stick to a restricted diet while on a normal vacation, much less [...]

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