Month: December 2012

best reads in 2012, because I couldn’t pick just one

I posted already about the best books I *didn’t* read in 2012, and here are some of the ones I did. I’m working on my 2012 “best of” round up and I’ve decided that I don’t want to pick between my two favorite books. They’re 

the best books of 2012 that I didn’t get to read yet

Everybody else makes their “best of year” books list, but because my backlog of books to be read is always so long, I never get to make one of those. I’m envious of those of you who read books as soon as they come out… 

on not “winning” NaNoWriMo

I didn’t “win” at NaNoWriMo this year. I’ve never actually won. The closest I came was in 2008, when I wrote 38,000 words of what would become my “practice novel”. It was the first time I’d ever tried a NaNoWriMo, and I came reasonably close.