Obv the aforementioned October release is not gonna happen since I spent this year sleepwalking. I think I’m awake now? Only time will tell.

unrelated I didn’t want a Seth & Allison music video in my life until I heard this song

tell me a joke, my loves, I’m tired

korakos:

honestly I’m glad y’all enjoy wymack’s last speech so much bc I almost deleted the entire thing for being so melodramatic

it was legit one of those many ‘oh my gawd nora shut uppp’ moments when I was rereading it during final revisions lmao

honestly I’m glad y’all enjoy wymack’s last speech so much bc I almost deleted the entire thing for being so melodramatic

1. My TBR pile is so out of control right now. example of how far behind I am: I STILL haven’t read Crooked Kingdom. FML

2. This blog is GoT s8 spoilers-free (not like I ever update anyway)

3. My mother has successfully made her move from SC to OR. She’s not living with me, but she’s close in case something goes wrong. Should be interesting, she hasn’t had to put up with adult-me except in sporadic visits.

4. Trying to stick to a March & October release schedule this year, but October is partially contingent on me failing to secure an agent with Mono*. It’ll be a little weird having Mono out before Ely2, but one’s ready and the other hasn’t even been started, ha.

5. Speaking of, WIP list also getting out of control (Mono, Ely2, CHAU, Stones, Stars, WSF, Train….). Am carving out time next week to figure out plots & timing, else the indecision and workload will get the better of me.

6. Spent this spring taking a certification course to be TEFL-certified. In a perfect world I could leave current job and just split my time between teaching online & writing. ((in a perfect world I would just write, but pfff.))

Hope everyone else is having an interesting spring as well! Well, the good kind of interesting. <3

* one day I’m going to give up querying, or so I tell myself, but the smallest part of me still says Maybe this time. Guess I really am an optimist.

I just got yelled at by another bestie tonight bc apparently I never told her that I put a new book out. the look on her face when I could say “um yeah last month” was fuckin priceless. trololol

(this is why long-distance friends are sometimes A+ : they cannot throw things at you IRL)

ALSO if y’all liked Elysium’s cover (I DO, I VERY MUCH DO, OH MY GOD) give @medinaquirin some love, she did such an amazing job and I still can’t get over it

fanthyng-mego:

inloveintheory:

me, learning latin: okay so nihil means nothing and it’s pronounced like niil

my friend, who listens to my aftg rants: it’s pronounced neil?

me: wait-

my friend: nihil means nothing and it’s pronounced like neil and neil is nothing and andrew wants nothing-

me: WAIT-

@korakos Miss Sakavic is this intentional?

IT IS NOT but I am so happy right now

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korakos:

so earlier this week I let go of a project that I didn’t think I’d ever say goodbye to.

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why do I always come across as such a downer on tumblr? nora, get your life together. :P I promise it’s not intentional.

TL;DR I hope you like the story, but if you hate it that’s also okay & perf understandable, and ilu either way.

(((also I have the ill-advised urge to work on WK fics again, someone stop me)))

so earlier this week I let go of a project that I didn’t think I’d ever say goodbye to.

stereophonic-aftershock:

korakos:

Let’s get it done, lovies :D

Do you have any tips? How does it compare to when you wrote All for the Game?

@stereophonic-aftershock I found some really good tips in the nano tag this morning when I was looking for a funky YAY NANO picture, so I went ahead and reblogged it!

With regards to the DO NOT DELETE – if you’re like me and can’t deal with multiple versions of a scene all in the same document, simply move all the bits you don’t need to a second file. That keeps the original clean and keeps the old work safe for word counts. NaNo isn’t about having a stellar finished project, after all, so it’s not about what you revised and kept. It’s about all the words you put into it in the first place to get it done. Can’t think of how you want to word a bit of dialogue? Yeah you could sit there and mull it over, or you can write out every iteration of it you can think of until one feels right.

My sister used to skip entire sections if she was getting stuck or if she thought it would take more research/time than she wanted or if it risked boring her, so she’d write THEY TRAVEL TO XYZ or BIG ACTION SCENE GOES HERE and then just keep going with the parts that interested her. I’ve had people write a couple lyrics in their piece to remind their future self what sort of mood they wanted to rework a scene with, what might’ve inspired a bit of action and whatnot.

If you’re not active in the NaNo forums but you have twitter, I imagine twitter’s NaNo & amwriting tags will be full of writers announcing & doing writing sprints. If you can’t find them or you like working alone, set your own sprints and give yourself rewards for tackling them.

Find some decent headphones. Make a playlist for your book and dance to it. Make moodboards. Drink water. (Drink not-water). Remember that late-night writing sessions are fun but that a sleepy brain makes trudging progress. Take walks to give your eyes and fingers a break. Most of all, have fun.

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askmoonyloonylupin:

• Word sprints and Word Wars with your regional buddies or buddies in general will save you. 
• Get as many words under your belt as you can in the first week. You’ll be thankful when things get cranky later on. 
• Never edit or delete. I MEAN IT. Editing will be for December - January - February. 
• Write something bad. Write something terrible. Keep it. Put brackets to remind yourself that it’s unfinished business if you want. DO. NOT. DELETE. IT. 
• You want to rewrite a scene? Good. Do it under the first one. 
• DO. NOT. DELETE. 
• Accept the fact that you won’t have a Novel by the end of NaNo but 50 000 words on a page that you’ll need to go over and work on. 
• On the days you don’t want to write: write anyway. Write 100 words. Or write 50. It doesn’t matter: write them.

Here’s my take on NaNo day 1, the rest will come later on, I have a word war to attend! 

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Let’s get it done, lovies :D

armalis-archived:

• The Keepers have always been here. They will always be here. Please do not disturb the Keepers.
  
• Your gun keeps changing. You aren’t trained in assault rifles, but you’re carrying one anyway. You didn’t bring a Predator, but it’s suddenly in your hands, aimed at someone’s head. Blink. You’re carrying your own weapons again.
• You stand outside on the moon, victorious in killing an AI trying for its freedom. Listen closely in the silence of space, you hear the rachni song. You’ve read the reports: the rachni have never been to the Sol system.
• Conrad Verner accuses you of waving a gun in his face. You remember giving him an autograph. But you died, somewhere between the autograph and the accusation.
• You were told there were only two Ardat-Yakshi. You kill four banshees before you leave the monastery.
• You’ve been in this building before, on a different colony, a different planet, a different system. But you still cannot find the door to return outside.
• There is a man in the markets. He has been trying for three years to return a toaster oven. He has tried every store on the Citadel. He has no memory of buying the toaster oven. He doesn’t even have a receipt.
• Have you always been waiting for this elevator?

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