I’m trying to carry on three fairly intense relationships at the moment. Simultaneously. And it’s no fun, let me tell you. I don’t know how some reprobates can do it with ease. I think it’s way too much pressure, trying to do right by more than 1 loved one at the same time, and still have time to wash…
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Why NaNoWriMo Is Good For You
National Novel Writing Month – or NaNoWriMo for short – is a time of year when upwards of 300,000 people across the globe attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days, over the calendar month of November. Like all the best love stories, it’s an insane idea, simultaneously riddled with genius. Why’s that, I…
Through the Looking-Glass: Power. Money. Baldness
Tark and Mara who? I did warn you. Explanation here In a universe not far from here, but somehow very like here, Tark was busy writing. “Darling, what are you doing?” asked Mara, newly transplanted eyebrows furrowed in puzzlement and distrust. Her husband’s industrious expression was severely out of place in their six-bedroomed chrome-and-mirror penthouse. Tark never…
OH YES! … It’s The BRAINY Book Title Generator!
I want you to be honest. Go on. You can tell your Auntie Tara. Were you too embarrassed to try the Chick-Lit Book Title Generator? Was it just too darned demeaning, even in the name of fun, to attach your name to book titles for such an apparently fluffy, commercial genre? The sort you would never write? (If you ever were…
It’s The Chick-Lit Book Title Generator!
Stuck for a name for that chick-lit book you’re writing? Or simply want to know what your weepy romance novel would be called, if you ever got around to writing one? Well fear not! The Chick-Lit Book Title Generator is here! I know you’re dying to know, so here’s mine: Where Rainbows Might Speak by Tara Sparling (that’s…
Mathematical Mondays: The Percentages of Plot
I’m sure someone wiser, prettier, and kinder to children than I am has already discussed this, but it struck me the other day whilst working on the NaNoWriMo novel (sometimes affectionately, sometimes disparagingly known as “No. 2”) that I didn’t know whether my plot was proportionately pleasing, so to speak. Is what’s happening, happening at the right time, or…
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