Ever since I first heard about NaNoWriMo in the late 90s from a friend whose nephew was doing it, I wanted to give it a try. It seemed like an incredible undertaking, and for a while I didn’t think … Continue reading
Category: Project Management
WNFIN–Great NaNoWriMo Counterpart!
Radical Shift
Every year–and I mean every year for as long as I can remember– I have written my annual goals in January. Last December as the new year approached, I kept reading admonitions about how writing goals is useless. “It doesn’t … Continue reading
Project Management: Attitude & Action
In my last post, I wrote about my stalled writing project and how I took the problem to my writing group. You can read about the stall here. In this post, I’m going to discuss how their gentle shove resulted … Continue reading
Project Management: From Stalled to Inspired
Last December, I launched a book project with great enthusiasm as you can tell by this post: Starting a Big Writing Project. I completed my first interview and worked on a filing system and then the holidays intervened. And then … Continue reading
Preserve Your Story
My dear friend, Agatha Hoff, recently published her book Burning Horses, the story of her mother’s life during WWII in Hungary. Aggie wrote the story from her mother’s point of view, based on the stories her mother had told her … Continue reading