lovely reading :-) Holding all fingers crossed for a fellow-NaNoWriMo! Nina

Great advice, Roxanne! I just found Write or Die the other day. I've purchased the desktop edition so I'm not distracted by the interwebs. Hopefully, I'll be able to sustain my enthusiasm throughout the month or til I hit 50k. This is also my first...

Andrea, thanks for sharing your tips! All I can say is welcome to the insanity (and thanks for your willingness to be a guinea pig insight.) :) This will be my first NaNoWriMo and I'm already breaking all the rules. I'm working on a nonfiction...

April, I think you bring up a valid point. It's intimidating when you see so many other writers who have been published. I think that comes in large part to our (or at least many writers') idea that getting a book published means you've "made it" as...

I have to agree with Jane. Regardless of your publishing status, all of us continue to grow and emerge over time. I'm never quite sure where I fall in the emerging or established question, myself. I've ghostwritten for several years. I've written...

That is just hilarious! I love it. Take the Bible seriously I can understand, but taking it literally might tend to cause some issues. lol.

And since I'm a day late in shouting out, I'll offer up another shout out for another SheWriter, Rebecca Rasmussen. Her new book The Bird Sisters comes out in Spring, 2011. I can't wait to read it! Thanks to SheWrites, I found a book and an author I...

A big, obnoxious, ear-shattering shout out for Lisa Rivero. She has given me such a new appreciation for ordinary writing. She created a group on SheWrites just recently for those of us interesting in preserving the writings of our families and...