Contemporary Fiction Author, Infrequent Blogger & Retired Clown

Author: Shannon

You can’t write a book called Fried Pickles without frying a few pickles.

You can’t write a book called Fried Pickles without frying a few pickles.

With less than a week standing between me and what will likely be my mental undoing (known in most circles as NaNoWriMo) I decided to take a break from plotting and planning to do a little research for my project. I had to fry some [Read more…]

And the title is…

And the title is…

13 days to go….are you sweating yet? National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) starts in just over two weeks! Are you guys getting excited? Scared? Nervous? Stressed? I’m a little bit of all four, but most of the bad feelings are getting masked by my excitement. [Read more…]

Share your NaNoWriMo glory on Smashwords!

Share your NaNoWriMo glory on Smashwords!

The countdown to the start of the 2010 NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) Competition stands at 18 days. Have you joined yet? Still on the fence? Have no clue what I’m talking about? NaNoWriMo is an annual competition from Nov. 1st – 30th that pits [Read more…]

I took the plunge! NaNoWriMo here I come!

I took the plunge! NaNoWriMo here I come!

Ten minutes ago, I was a boring 25 year-old watching baseball and contemplating my dinner plans for the evening. And then, with a few swipes of my keyboard, I had signed up for the National Novel Writing Month contest (also known as NaNoWriMo). Now I [Read more…]