Missed any of this week’s MonsterFest posts?
Here there they are one more time! Please stop by and comment – these posts are wonderful and clearly lovingly written. I love when people gush about mythology!
Sierra McConnell: The Nephilim
Jennifer Burke: Yowie
Gyran Gymble: Valravn M.E.: The Outsider
Michael Offutt: Cthulhu
Jon Paul: The Kraken
Gyran Gymble: Yuki-onna (the snow woman) – Japan
Marie Loughin: Fenrir
moondustwriter: Moon Beast
Matt Larkin: Phoenix
Rebekah Loper: Siren
Alexandra McGowan: Gremlins
J.C. Martin: Pontianak
Shannon Lawrence: Wendigo
Shelley Koon: Cenobites
Claudie A.: Kraken!
Deb Marshall: Banshee
*Deb Marshall’s link wasn’t working, but now it is!
NaNo Tips
In 2009, Scott Westerfeld and his wife Justine Larbalestier created a month of awesome NaNo Tips. I’ve collected their links for you here:
NaNo Tip #2: The Zen of First (Zero) Drafts
NaNo Tip #3: Dialog Spine Analysis
NaNo Tip #4: Word Count is Not Everything
NaNo Tip #5: Write Your Way Out
NaNo Tip #6: Emergency Unstucking Techniques
NaNo Tip #7: Stealing from Chandler
NaNo Tip #10: Don’t Skip the Tricky Bits
NaNo Tip #11: passages of Disbelief
NaNo Tip #12: Turn the Internet Off
NaNo Tip #14: Procrastination Can Be Your Friend
NaNo Tip #15: Take the Day Off
NaNo Tip #17: Making Writing a Habit
NaNo Tip #18: Breaking with Stereotypes
NaNo Tip #20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike
NaNo Tip #23: Change Your Brain
NaNo Tip #24: Writing While White
NaNo Tip #25: Read it Backwards
NaNo Tip #28: Take Care of Yourself
NaNo Tip #29: Finish Everything
Advice on Preparing for NaNoWriMo
Top 5 Ways to Prepare for NaNoWriMo
Writing Anything…9 Ways to Prepare for NaNoWriMo
Preparing for NaNoWriMo Part I: The Idea
NaNoWriMo Boot Camp: Choosing the Right Idea
NaNoWriMo Boot Camp: Goals and Obstacles
NaNoWriMo Boot Camp: Editing as you go
Are you participating in NaNoWriMo? Sign up on the linky so that I (and others) can come encourage you throughout the month!
Sommer
My name is Sommer and I'm a writer from the Midwest. I am currently working on a YA novel about superheroes, reading as much as I can, blogging, and saving the world.
Yay! A MonsterFest recap! Thanks Sommer. And good luck to all the folks doing NaNo!
Thank you so much for sharing these. With great resources like this, I am really getting excited. Glad I found your blog.
This is like a double awesome post because I am a mythology nut myself, and also a NaNoWriMo nut! Am bookmarking this post for some Scott Westerfeld/Justine L. joy to keep me going during November!
That’s a lot of advice!
Wow! Great round up of tips. Hard to believe it is almost that time of year. And thanks for the monsterfest round up links too!
I love it when my worlds collide. I had no idea that Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier were married. I don’t know why, but this makes me smile. And the list of their NaNo links makes me UBER grateful.
Will be coming back to those in the very near future!
You know what’s stupid? I recently wrote a monster story, and I didn’t even realize I should have told you about it, and made it a part of your fest. It’s here:
http://underneaththejunipertree.com/?p=968 (too lazy to hyperlink, I know, sorry)
OH WOW!
i swear, i keep adding these epherma posts to my faves to catch up on links when i have time… and here’s another one that warrants further looking into!
are you going to be keeping up the monsterfest page throughout the year? it could serve as a handy dandy resource tool for monsterology research!
Yes! I’m just not sure how I’m going to do it yet. I’m actually looking at another smallish blog redo to include some things I haven’t been able to yet, and I’d like to have a place to keep resources like Monsterfest. So it’ll stay where it’s at for now, but I’ll find a better way to show it off soon.
YAY!!!
i swear this is a resource i’d like to look at all year long!
have you ever seen destination truth or monsterquest?!?
they are both permanently on my netflix instant queue.
sometimes, i worry that i’m disturbing my children’s ability to discern real or imaginary…
but C’MON!! bigfoot seems SO LIKELY to actually exist!!!
If you like those (I do!), you should try some of the episodes of Paranormal State. There was this one where they caught a thermal of what they think is the Jersey Devil. It’s really cool.
oooh! i’ve seen that around, but my hubs says i’ll be super scared of that one… i don’t know. i can be pretty darn wussy. maybe though…
thanks for the rec!
I think the only Paranormal State eppies I didn’t like were the exorcism ones. >.<
Yup, I could be busy for a while with this lot
That’s why I posted them before November instead of during