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Welcome to NaNoWriMo, Day 26!

Hopefully you’re relaxed, rested, and ready for a cozy day of writing.

Here. We’ll help provide the ambiance. Here’s some hot cider for you, you know, to reward you for all of your hard work this month:

Now, onto writing.

Today’s inspiration:

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

~ ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Barchester Towers

So true, but such a shame. . .

Your random challenge word of the day is: lunatic

Pinky swear, that’s the first word that came up! You’re welcome!

Don’t forget to leave us a comment and let us know how you’re doing! And if you’ve managed to use any challenge words in a sentence, please share!

Happy Noveling! 

Welcome to NaNoWriMo, Day 24!

No matter what your word count is, if you’ve made it this far, and written more than you would have during a “normal” November, give yourself  a pat on the back!

Today’s inspiration:

People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn’t like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that’s all there is to it.

~ Harlan Ellison

Isn’t that the truth!

But, if you sit and work long enough, the magic will come!

Your random challenge word of the day is: trouble

Ooh! Somebody in trouble? Having trouble? Causing trouble?

Don’t forget to leave us a comment and let us know how you’re doing! And if you’ve managed to use any challenge words in a sentence, please share!

Happy Noveling! 

Welcome to NaNoWriMo, Day 19!

Ah, it’s Friday again. Raise your hand if you think this has been one very long week. . .

Let us not get distracted by thoughts of turkey, air travel, and putting up with family. We can deal with that Monday, right?

Today’s inspiration:

Writing, I think, is not apart from living.  Writing is a kind of double living.  The writer experiences everything twice.  Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

~ Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957

Huh. No wonder NaNo makes us so tired!

Your random challenge word of the day is: accidental

Goodness! Accidental meetings? Accidental discovery of information? There’s certainly some fun to be had with this word!

Don’t forget to leave us a comment and let us know how you’re doing! And if you’ve managed to use any challenge words in a sentence, please share!

Happy Noveling! 

Welcome to NaNoWriMo, Day 18!

How’s week three treating you? Is your plot kind of, sort of gelling? Are your characters more able to stand on their own two feet?

If yes, yay! If not, trust us, just give it a bit more time.

Today, we’re back with another overheard conversation. You know how we, and your muses, feel about those!

At a public boat launch, three men wrestle a boat onto a trailer:

[Crash.]

“Whoa, Nelly!”

[Thud.]

Proving that not everyone uses expletives, even when landing on his. . .patootie.

~ Overheard by Chris Bailey

Aw. What an adorable character quirk that would be, especially for a particularly hot hero.

Your random challenge word of the day is: glory

Hmm. If your protagonist isn’t experiencing anything glorious, just use the word sarcastically. A little snark never hurt anyone.

Don’t forget to leave us a comment and let us know how you’re doing! And if you’ve managed to use any challenge words in a sentence, please share!

Happy Noveling! 

Welcome to NaNoWriMo, Day 15!

Wow, we’re half way there?!?

Inquiring minds want to know: Is that a relief? A terrifying thought?

Just know that two weeks from now, no matter what happens, the pressure will be off. Not that you shouldn’t keep writing. But slowing down a little (or a lot) may not be a bad idea.

There’s nothing to writing.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

~ Walter Wellesley

Ah, if only it were that easy.

Your random challenge word of the day is: brilliant

As in, your NaNo books are brilliant. As in, one of your characters had a brilliant idea that upped your word count by 10,000 words. Or maybe as in, your hero and heroine walked in the brilliant moonlight.

Don’t forget to leave us a comment and let us know how you’re doing! And if you’ve managed to use any challenge words in a sentence, please share!

Happy Noveling! 

~ By D.D. Scott

Here at Chick Lit Writers “It’s all about the attitude”…

So what better way to showcase the Chick Lit genre than to “show” some of that attitude?!

Starting with last Wednesday’s post and continuing today, that’s exactly what we’re doing!

To kick-off today’s ‘Tude-torial, take a look at this fabulous quote by award-winning journalist and multi-published author Jennifer Coburn:

“…I find the attack on chick-lit more than a bit disheartening.  Is this where we are – one group of women writers mocking another, deeming its work irrelevant?  Are women really criticizing each other about what they read?!  An author recently commented that the term chick-lit sounds as if the writing is about, for and by women, nothing more.  Nothing more?!  Why isn’t that enough?!…”

— Jennifer Coburn, “Two Literary Chicks”, THIS IS CHICK-LIT

When I first read Coburn’s take, and every time I’ve read it since, I just want to stand up and shout ‘Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about!  You go, Girl!’

I look at it like Advice Columnist E. Jean Carroll once said:

“If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.”

Yeah, as in get outta bed and read whatever the Hell you want, right?!  Kind of puts it all into perspective…just sayin’…

Now once you’re out of bed, take a look out your nearest window at the gorgeous Autumn splendor coloring our world.

And remember this little gem…

“Every great oak tree was once a nut that stood its ground” — Author Unknown

So “be a nut” and read and write whatever makes you and your muses dance like nobody’s watching.

I mean, really!  Who the Hell cares what other people think?!

Sexy Sassy Smart Chick Lit “It’s All About the Attitude” Wishes — D. D. Scott

P.S.  Don’t forget too that we’d luuuvvv to hear your favorite Chick Lit Attitude Quotes and Anecdotes!  So leave ‘em for us in our Comments Section.  We just might feature your Attitudes in a future ‘Tude-torial post!!!

D. D. Scott is a romantic comedy debut author plus a Writer’s Go-To-Gal For Muse Therapy.  You can get all the scoop on her, her books and her Muse Therapy Online Classes and Live Workshops at http://www.DDScott.com .