editing – Confabulator Cafe

Cheering from the sidelines

Emily Mosher - November 7, 2015

I am not doing NaNoWriMo, and it feels like I’m opting out of a big party in order to study or something.

Outlining for Dummies, or Why an Outline Is Not for Me

Eliza Jaquays - January 21, 2014

Throughout my life I have been presented with the daunting task of creating an outline. High school English teachers treated them like they were the be all and end all of papers. No good paper could be written without a clear outline in place. That was problematic for me. My brain doesn’t function from an […]

Life Is Laughing at My Intentions

R.L. Naquin - November 14, 2013

I don’t even know where to start. Okay, let’s start with last Friday. I took the day off from NaNo. Ran some errands. Did the laundry. I know. Crazy. Saturday, my husband and I went out into the world, claimed a spot at a coffee shop and wrote our fingers to the bone. Go us! […]

Machete Meet Jungle

Jason Arnett - March 15, 2013

When I’ve completed a draft of a manuscript, I have to get away from it for a while. Sometimes it’s a week, sometimes it’s a little more. During that time I’ll begin work on something else or pick up another manuscript that needs some attention. I like to sit down with a red pencil and […]

Embrace it!

Aspen Junge - March 14, 2013

Lately I’ve been feeling the blahs. Fat. Inactive. Creatively null and void. Like I’m in a holding pattern. All of which means one thing: It is time to break out of my comfort zone [0]. I’ve got several things I can do. I can go back to Contra dancing. I have a carpentry project planned, […]