Sir Terry!
Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series, has been awarded a knighthood.
Brilliant!
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A few bits & pieces from around the traps…
The Book Design Review has a list of favourite book covers of 2008, including one that nearly gave me vertigo:
Book Patrol has a post about some fascinating book-related art by Marina Camargo.
The appropriately named Bookshelf blog continues to post a fascinating collection of interesting bookshelves. This one caught my eye today. Probably not quite to my taste in terms of style, but I kind of liked the function.
Last but not least, DailyWritingTips attempt to cheer up rejected authors by listing how many times some famous books were rejected.
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NaNoWriMo - the aftermath
Today begins the month of December. That means last night I should have finished my 50,000 word NaNoWriMo novel. Truth is, I got about 19,000 words into my novel a couple of weeks ago but ran out of steam. Such is life.
The experience was great and I highly recommend it to anyone who has a bit of an urge to write. Now that the pressure to write so much every day has gone, I may set myself a lesser weekly target to continue my story.
Congratulations to all who finished, especially one of my “recruits”, LibrarianIdol. Congratulations also to all who gave it a shot, like Gizo.
We will now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
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NaNoWriMo tomorrow
Tomorrow is November 1st. The day I begin following through on my somewhat rash decision to sign up for NaNoWriMo this year. 1667 words. That what I need to produce tomorrow.
I am looking forward to it. I am also somewhat scared about the prospect. Gizo and Librarian Idol have also signed up for NaNo and made this public on ReadingHacks, so pop by and wish them luck too.
So those of you who love to read, this month remember those of us having a shot at seeing what it’s like on the other side of the printed page.
Wish us luck.
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A day in the life of Maureen Johnson
We’ve all read writers’ descriptions of their typical day. Things like “I always write 1000 words per day”, or, “I start at 6 am and am done by 12″, but I’ve always wondered how honest they are.
At last, Maureen Johnson has told it like it really is and described a no-holds barred detailed account of a typical day in the life of a young adult author. I have no reason to doubt its honesty.
