by Allyson Lindt | Dec 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
It’s taken me over a week to write this blog post. It’s been in my head, and I got as far as clicking the ‘New Post’ button and writing a title and then…I open it every day and stare at it and don’t finish the thought.It’s not...
by Allyson Lindt | Nov 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Totally unrelated, but something I’m absolutely infatuated with this morning:The funny thing is, I loved Tom Hiddleston as Loki. I thought he made that role. And when I picture my Loki, they’re not the same at all. They have similarities, but he’s...
by Allyson Lindt | Nov 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
AKA – why we have to stand out from the crowd.My father-in-law has a theory he calls the ‘envelope theory’. The basic premise is we all live in an enclosed space (like an envelope). When it comes to being social, we tend to interact with other people...
by Allyson Lindt | Nov 15, 2011 | #writingtech, formatting, how-to
As a beginning writer, it seems like the most difficult part of writing a novel is the writing. Once we get into the process we realize there’s so much more to it than just getting words on paper. There are countless websites and blogs out there about the...
by Allyson Lindt | Nov 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
I have sooo many casts of characters in my head. They all live in different universes and have different stories, and for the most part two different genres. I have a slew of contemporary fantasy stories in my brain. I’ve got one about psychics I don’t...
by Allyson Lindt | Nov 8, 2011 | #writingtech, formatting, how-to
Recently there has been a lot of buzz in writer-blog land about whether or not a writer blog is the best way to build a fiction platform. On the one hand, we’re writers, so we’re blogging about what we know. On the other hand, that means we attract other...
by Allyson Lindt | Nov 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
I am really very drowsy. Some people might say it’s a side-effect of writing 52,000 words (or so) in 5 days. I say it’s just cuz I didn’t sleep enough last night ^_^I was going to post a picture of my feet today (and oddly enough, that’s not...
by Allyson Lindt | Nov 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
I will not subject you to the song from The Monkeys.I’ve had this song on repeat a lot lately. It’s become my mantra.We were watching The Daily Show the other day, because that’s how we get our news because other cable news makes me sad and seeing...
by Allyson Lindt | Nov 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m working on my next project (in case you hadn’t noticed by things like yesterday’s blog post ^_~). I told a friend what I was picking up for NaNoWriMo and her response was “How many times have you written that now?” And so many of my...
by Allyson Lindt | Nov 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
That’s me. Squishy brain. I wrote a lot yesterday. According to this pretty program in front of me with black letters on a white background there’s almost 20,000 of those words.I’ve had to make a huge mental shift in starting to work on this new...
