Writerly Ways
Apr. 2nd, 2017 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessSince I'm a) in the middle of camp nano & b) doing writing posts daily on jana_denardo I'm just going to use writerly ways to post up links and word counts this month to save myself time.
But first for all the fiction writers out there![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
origfic_bingo is open again!! I would love for you to show it some love and go get a prompt card of your very own. I'd hate for it to fold up from lack of interest. And share it with other authors on your list at the very least! I've gotten so much written thanks to this comm in the past.
And I SO want to make it to the Steampunk convention in Cincinnatti in a couple weeks. They have a ton of major authors in steam punk there (including Cherie Priest). At least 3 writing workshops and LGBT in the genre. I think I could actually count this toward business for Jana. Sadly it's right when I'm supposed to be writing final exams. Head desk. Honestly I don't know how much of my local group is going but man, I'd like to go and not do group stuff (sorry group) just to take advantage of all the writing related stuff. Also, Voltaire is going to be there and I haven't been to one of his concerts in nearly 2 decades. (I think I saw him in like the first year or so of his career).
And now the links
making writing a habit. I think I'm broken. I have so much trouble with making things a habit. I even joined that online thing to reward myself for doing it and nada.
tips for being stuck at the beginning.
help from an agency
what to ask the agent after you get one
using the back matter to sell books
things authors should be doing
Camp Nano -
Yearly Word Count -
Okay so this one isn't a cheery one but it's one of my favorites b y William Butler Yeats and so many great titles can be carved out of this (in fact I was in a play in college that had done just that) The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
jana_denardo I'm just going to use writerly ways to post up links and word counts this month to save myself time.But first for all the fiction writers out there
origfic_bingo is open again!! I would love for you to show it some love and go get a prompt card of your very own. I'd hate for it to fold up from lack of interest. And share it with other authors on your list at the very least! I've gotten so much written thanks to this comm in the past.And I SO want to make it to the Steampunk convention in Cincinnatti in a couple weeks. They have a ton of major authors in steam punk there (including Cherie Priest). At least 3 writing workshops and LGBT in the genre. I think I could actually count this toward business for Jana. Sadly it's right when I'm supposed to be writing final exams. Head desk. Honestly I don't know how much of my local group is going but man, I'd like to go and not do group stuff (sorry group) just to take advantage of all the writing related stuff. Also, Voltaire is going to be there and I haven't been to one of his concerts in nearly 2 decades. (I think I saw him in like the first year or so of his career).
And now the links
making writing a habit. I think I'm broken. I have so much trouble with making things a habit. I even joined that online thing to reward myself for doing it and nada.
tips for being stuck at the beginning.
help from an agency
what to ask the agent after you get one
using the back matter to sell books
things authors should be doing
Camp Nano -
1500 / 10000
(15%)
(15%)
Yearly Word Count -
9142 / 100000
(9.14%)
(9.14%)
Okay so this one isn't a cheery one but it's one of my favorites b y William Butler Yeats and so many great titles can be carved out of this (in fact I was in a play in college that had done just that) The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
