As today is my own personal ‘write-in,’ I will be stopping by with regular updates to the actual page (click here) as well as posting the promised excerpt. If anyone is around for a word war between noon and 1PM central time, please leave a comment below, and I’ll set up a tally sheet – oh, and you don’t have to be involved in NaNo to participate in the word war… 😉 Any bit of encouragement is welcome!
NOTE: Write-in was a bust. Fornit and muse may be looking for work …

Day two has gone well. I re-read what I wrote yesterday, got myself into it and pushed out another slightly-higher-than-goal count for today. Which is actually yesterday, now, but never mind that. I’ve updated the word count meter here. I’ve also added a poll over there, so hop to. I’ll wait until you get back.
I didn’t get into my editing job, but I did work on more cover stuff. Created a back to go with the front of David Dunwoody’s upcoming release Unbound & Other Tales. Yeah, you read that …

New Bedlam Mock Cover Only
In 1809, Dr. James Devizes made camp in a low valley some 2000 miles north-west of Portland, Maine.
With him were his wife (Arabelle), their three children (James Jr., Anne and Elizabeth), his colleague Dr. Arthur Holker, five employees and their families and six of the most cruel, twisted, criminally insane inmates from Bethlam Hospital in England.
In 1810, the settlers christened the community New Bedlam.
And things started to go wrong…
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A handful of outcasts meet in a darkened room above the New Bedlam Library, years after …

My apologies for the lateness of this posting. Issues arose both personally and professionally that distracted me from the blog and I promise to spank myself later. With a paddle.
Meanwhile, in the Writersphere….
It’s that time of year again, folks! Insanity ensues with writers from all over the globe putting fingers to keys, pens to paper and voice to tape all in the hopes of creating 50,000 new words towards a novel in November.
That’s right, it’s National Novel Writing Month in less than ten days.

Oh my gods, it’s actually only …

Point of View: Whose Head Am I In?
by Louise Bohmer © 2009 All Rights Reserved
Next to verb tense, point of view is one of the hardest areas of story composition to master. I certainly haven’t mastered it yet, but I have developed strategies to help keep my point of view on track. In this short article, I hope to provide knowledge and examples to help other writers manage point of view issues.
Point of view describes from which person’s perspective the story is perceived. It’s a narrative mode. It is …