by Patti Miinch | Oct 26, 2021 | 000 words, 50, blog, NaNoWriMo, novel, rough draft, social media, writing
In six days, NaNoWriMo 2021 will kick off. For those who aren’t familiar with NaNoWriMo, it is a yearly, November challenge in which people around the globe attempt to write a 50,000-word-minimum rough draft of a novel. As the founder and current...
by Patti Miinch | Oct 12, 2021 | conspiracy theories, Facebook, no facebook orinstagram or whatsapp oh my, outages, Patti Miinch
Facebook was down for six hours last Monday and again for a couple of hours several days later. Unsurprisingly, reactions to the outages were mixed.There were the inevitable conspiracy claims; more than a few skeptics claimed that the outages Monday were linked to a...
by Patti Miinch | Sep 28, 2021 | composition, craft, motivation, passion, professor, published, teach, why I write, write
Last week, an author shared on social media that they received an email from a new fan. It wasn’t an “Oh, I discovered your book and loved it; I am going to buy every one you have ever written or will write in my lifetime” missive. Instead, it was an “I bought your...
by Patti Miinch | Sep 14, 2021 | characters, disclaimer, fiction, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, Soloman
This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, events, and incidents in this book are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.Unless you’ve...
by Patti Miinch | Sep 7, 2021 | author, book, factorfiction, novel, writing
Other than short stories and a novel written in 5th grade that has long since disappeared, the writing I’ve done throughout my life has been nonfiction. In grade school and high school, it was summaries, reports and essays; in college and grad school, my writing time...