Bamboo Shoots Submission for 100Words
Shinji Fujita Searches for God
BR 100 word contest
Bamboo Shoots Submission for 100Words
A Date at Eight
BR 100 word contest
It was midnight on November 30th and I had only 31,746 words written down. I had failed. For some perspective, 31,746 words fit quite nicely on 100 pages. I’m not sure how many pages 50,000 words fill up; I’ll tell you when I get there. = ^_^ = I took the weekend off to decompress…
This pep talk ran counter to every single bit of advice I’ve ever been given about writing–thing is, it makes a lot of sense by appealing to the darker side of writers. But more of that later…. The Thanksgiving weekend was not at all productive, or rather I was not at all productive. Instead of…
You may want to avert your eyes and ears as I squee like a little schoolgirl. Squee! Ahem. I was in my teens and enrolled in a book club. One of the first books I can remember buying was Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry…
As promised I am posting Sara Gruen’s pep talk. I’m actually taking her advice and just jumping from one fun scene to the next and transitions can go hang. And my post count as of this writing is 13,417. (Yes, I wrote a little over 2,000 words since yesterday’s blog.) And this was just two…
We are at war with New Zealand. I thought you’d like to know since, unless you’re doing NaNoWriMo and are part of the Hawaiʻi contigent, you probably have not noticed. I’m still not sure who incited it. It’s looking bad as the ratio of writers is skewed 2:5 in New Zealand’s favor. Don’t even get…
It’s been one week since I started my novel attempt and I am stalled out at 6,217 words. I actually haven’t found the time to write since Monday; life gets in the way. For example, last night I had the choice to write my allotment of 1,667 words or help out a student that had…
On November 1, all over the country and around the world, writers, both amateur and professional, will fingers to keyboards and begin writing their novels. On November 30, all writing will cease and the writers will submit their final tallies. Who among them will have reached the goal of 50,000 words? This is the basic…
On October 4, the Ka Leo ran a nearly full-page article on Mavis Hara’s An Offering of Rice. The article introduces Hara to the readers and, through copious quotes from the Sept. 27 release at the UHM Campus Center Ballroom, walks the readers through Hara’s stories and inspiration for those stories. You can see the…