Category Archives: Writing
Calm Before the “Storm”
I will be doing Nanowrimo this year, as I’ve said already. What i haven’t said is that I won’t be working on any other fiction between now and then, and probably not any other fiction during November either. Not working on anything else during Nanowrimo is a personal preference, and one whose benefits I assume …
Nanowrimo 2013 Update
I am going to do it. On the one hand, the higher standard I have set for 2013, (complete a story, and not just 50,000 words) is somewhat daunting. But on the other, more significant hand, I need to work on not being as hard on myself over such things. I need some more writing …
All Fiction is Alternate History
One my favorite episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation is called “Parallels“. In it, one of the characters is accidentally thrown into a series of alternate realities. Each universe differs from his own due to past events having turned out differently. So the entire trajectory of history in that universe ends up altered. One …
Overcome by the Randomness
I admit that in the writing world, I am sometimes overcome by the randomness. Why does any given book that ignores all the rules of “good” writing become a best seller and make its author rich? There are plenty of books out there that are excoriated for breaking the exact same rules, their author’s deemed …
Nanowrimo Contemplations
It’s time once again to think about the annual National Novel Writing Month. Didn’t I just go through all of this mental tennis with myself last month? Generally, I wouldn’t say this last year has flown by, but in the context of Nano, it feels like the year never happened almost. Probably because I agonized …
Ty Unglebower 