December 2012 – Matt Browning Books

I see little balls of sunshine in a bag…

December 31, 2012 Matt Browning Comments 0 Comment

A quick update: It's been quiet here on the blog for awhile. For the past several weeks, I've been trudging through editorial hell. When I reviewed the manuscript I hurriedly compiled during NaNoWriMo, I loved the premise and the characters I've created but something else was very…off. I have since begun shifting the entire narrative mode, a rather tedious process that has me feeling a little like Blanche Devereaux in this clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54y-Mjxz9vw And I'm only halfway through the manuscript. On the…

Happy Birthday, West Virginia! Now, ready…set…read!

December 11, 2012 Matt Browning Comments 0 Comment

Earlier this week I received an intriguing Twitter follow from @WVReads150, a movement of which I was unaware. Turns out that my home state is turning 150 in 2013, and the West Virginia Library Commission, the West Virginia Center for the Book and libraries across the state are launching the “West Virginia Reads 150” challenge in celebration. Here’s a blurb from the initiative’s website: The yearlong reading initiative encourages West Virginians to read 150 books in any format (printed book,…

NaNoPlaMo. NaNoWriMo. NaNoEdMo.

December 5, 2012 Matt Browning Comments 2 comments

National Novel Writing Month is over, and I did it: 50,000 words in 30 days. What I came up with remains to be seen. I did zero editing throughout the month, only churning away at the word count. I’m nowhere close to being finished with the first draft. (50K words do not a novel make, folks.) But I’ve reached the point in the story that I’m not ready to move forward without reviewing what’s been written, although I haven’t even…

It’s Over!

December 4, 2012 Matt Browning Comments 0 Comment

An analysis of the NaNoWriMo process is on the way…just as soon as I decompress from my self-imposed “thirty days and nights of literary abandon”…but, just so you know: