Tag: NaNoWriMo

  • Top 5 Author Facial Hair, in honor of NaNoWriMo and Movember

    Top 5 Author Facial Hair, in honor of NaNoWriMo and Movember

    November is here which means Movember is here which means NaNoWriMo is here which means nothing different for me, as I don’t participate in National Novel Writing Month nor am I capable of growing a beard. For me it’s NoNaNoWriMoNoGroMo.

    But that doesn’t mean I can’t give my two pennies about both topics while bringing in some bookish talk, as this channel is meant to do.

    Mentioned:
    Movember: http://us.movember.com/
    NaNoWriMo: http://nanowrimo.org/
    Kevin Rabas: http://kevinrabas.com/

    Drinking: Southern Tier 2x Double Milk Stout
    Reading: Flushboy by Stephen Graham Jones

  • No ideas for your NaNoWriMo novel? Come to NaNoBraSto (National Novel Brain Storm) on October 16th. We do the ideas for you.

    No ideas for your NaNoWriMo novel? Come to NaNoBraSto (National Novel Brain Storm) on October 16th. We do the ideas for you.

    National Novel Brain Storm

    Okay, we aren’t doing the work for you. But we are giving you a pleasant bump. Not as in cocaine. Unless you’re writing a book about cocaine. Perhaps a family of W.A.S.P (“pleasant”) take to cocaine to help them through their rigid dinner conversations, most of which painfully circumnavigate the 8 weeks pregnant daughter (another “bump”…). It works. For a while. Until the son, Tommy Fitzgerald, brings a friend to dinner. This friend, unbeknownst to the W.A.S.P family, happens to be the son of the city police chief and may be the baby’s father. A Pleasant Bump is a story of a family finding ways to bond in unlikely places, and of the law that tears them apart.

    There’s one idea for you right there. See, that was easy.

    Join me, Sarah Jane Connor (MotherEffingBooks), Liz Vallish (ElizzieBooks), and perhaps a few other guests as we extemporaneously formulate a collection of absurd, humorous, and most certainly weak, plots for your NaNoWriMo novel.

    When: October 16th, 2013 – 8:30pm CST (US time)

    Where: Online at http://www.youtube.com/calebjross

    What to expect: a low key hour of laughing about ridiculous plot concepts that no sane person should ever try. However, IF a person (sane or otherwise) does use one of the ideas generated during the show, and a finished novel comes of it, then prizes will be given. We aren’t sure what yet, though we do anticipate some amazing.

    RSVP at the Google+ Event page here: https://plus.google.com/events/crlmds91qda9s92b18uihjvnqf4?authkey=CKPEmJfUkJGrUQ

    October 16th, 2013 – 8:30pm CST (US time)

    http://www.youtube.com/calebjross

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  • Does every reader also want to write? (Video Blog ep 045)

    Does every reader also want to write? (Video Blog ep 045)

    I have three questions for you?

    1. Do people read without an ulterior motive anymore?
    2. What is so alluring about writing?
    3. Are you a reader, sans the writer motivation, willing to Skype about it?

    NaNoWriMo this year has made me realize just how rare the reader is becoming. It seems every reader out there also wants to be a writer. As a writer, this of course concerns me. What happens if the only market for a product is also the creator of the product?

    Watch the video below as I ask and explore these questions. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to my YouTube Channel to keep updated on all videos. I release about two videos per week.

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  • NaNoWriMo, Thoughts on National Novel Writing Month (Video Blog ep 039)

    NaNoWriMo, Thoughts on National Novel Writing Month (Video Blog ep 039)

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    I’ve had a hard time coming to terms with my opinions of National Novel Writing Month. Part of me appreciates the kick in the pants it gives to new writers. The other part of me hates the kick in the pants it gives to new writers (is it fear of more competition? Maybe). The one opinion I can be faithful to is that NaNoWriMo isn’t for me.