Hope everyone is having a fantastic April. Spring seems to be a little sluggish in waking up and arriving. I’m writing this while looking out a window at snow. Had a brilliantly sunny day yesterday, today is snow. But that is what I get for living in the Northeast.
This month is Camp Nano, so there is going to be some writing posts. A while back I did a series of essays on starting to write fanfic, so I won’t be redoing those right now. But there are some other topics suggested to be that I’ll be covering. It’s mostly to do with fanfic writing, but some of it has original fiction writing connections too. These include using triggers, why it’s a bad idea to villianize a character to make your character look good, and its good policy to ship and let ship.
I also have two bookit reviews coming and every Friday remains my Women of History series.
For those of you who don’t know what Camp Nano is, its a month-long writing challenge. Every November is National Novel Writing month, where in people try to write a 50,000 word story. It’s not quite a full novel, but it’s getting there and allows you the pleasure of knowing you wrote something. In April and June they run Camp Nano, where you can work towards any writing goal. Some use it to help them prepare for Nano, others for finishing up outstanding WIPs they have (I am one of those people). But it’s basically up to you whether you write 1000 words or 100,000. You get to set the goal. My goal this year is started at 30,000 and I want to complete two chapter fics and a series of drabble challenges I haven’t finished yet. It’s possible to adjust your word count so I may raise it later on. On the 18th I have planned an update post, so I’ll talk more about my goals for Camp Nano then.
If you feel interested and or want to learn more, you can visit the Camp Nano Website.
Hope you all have a great month, and that spring finally arrives – and sticks around!
Sokorra Lewis 