Welcome!

Welcome to my new website! My name is Marie, and I’ll be your host this evening!

We have an array of tasty treats on the menu, from freelancing, to National Novel Writing Month, to snarky commentary on just about anything. Mostly good, solid, writing-related munchies. For the most part the menu is prose-free, that will remain on my personal blog for the time being. If you’re curious, check out the Plot Bunnies link on the main menu for some of the recent posts.

As a taste of what’s to come, please allow me to present 5 Do’s and Don’ts for Hiring a Freelancer and Tips and Tricks for Freelancers, on the house.

Lovely to meet you, and I hope I will be seeing you back again soon!
~Marie

Coming Soon: NaNoWriMo Prep Topics

November is National Novel Writing Month, and it’s coming up fast! Preparatory materials will be posted here on Wednesdays starting September 2nd, following a general sort of generic big-picture to concept-focused specifics plan. September will be general topics: the plan and some overview resources, literary genres, point of view and narration, ideas and conceptualization, and then rounding it out with different plot formulae. October will be more specific to getting enough written down that you should breeze through November: genre norms and weighted values, characters, plot, and setting. I will also try to have a wrap-up blog posted at the end of the month which will link to all the weekly articles I posted in one convenient place.

In the meantime, here are some old blog posts (links go to my creative blog) which I think are fairly timeless.

• Prewriting and Planning Tips, including links to a bunch of resources I’ve found useful in the past.
• Confessions of a Black Hole Diving Plantser, in which I admit I got lost in so many resources I then built a Scrivener template with them. (Check the updates at the bottom for the most recent version.)
• Be Kind to Yourself During NaNoWriMo, which seems like it ought to speak for itself.