Juiced On Writing
I want to write. I want to make a living writing - fiction, and non-fiction. And I want to share all the writing resources I find. This is my writing blog. Simple as that.

Today I spent a fruitful day planning out all my writing and other resolutions into some 2009 goals and objectives, and setting them into a series of mindmaps. Together they make up a Life Dashboard MindMap.
For 2009 I have several personal goals, some large family tasks (such as adopting another child into the family), [...]

As it’s Christmas (did you notice?) or at least the Holiday Season for those who celebrate something other than Christmas, I have mention of a couple of writing giveaways for you.
1. Easy Way to Write’s 12 Days of Xmas Freebies
Rob Parnell’s site, Easy Way to Write, is giving away writing freebies every day leading up [...]

Today, I won NaNoWrimo, verified wordcount being at just a tiny bit over 104,000. I picked up my PDF certificate, downloaded one of the winner buttons to post up here, and now it’s done.
How sad, to find myself at the end of my novel. The first draft is now in full manuscript form, and [...]

I wanted to let you into one of the secrets to my success (still to be confirmed) at writing a novel in a month through NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month. It’s all to do with not to dos. As proof of my success, it’s day 17, and I’m 60,000 words in, already a [...]

While researching into some of the latest Adobe Air Applications available, I came across the following apps helpful in making my own writing more productive, most of which happen to be free. I’ve set up some example screenshots for you, to show you my two favourites, with lists and details on 14 more.

NaNoWriMo -
National Novel Writing Month

50,000 words | 30 Days
Commenced - 1st November
Hit 50,000 target - 13th November.
Final wordcount - 104,292.
I Won! And the verifier onsite even added an additional 1000 words which I must have miscounted.
11 Chapters, 34 Scenes, 104,000 words later, and I’ve won my first ever NaNoWriMo.
Oh, and I actually have written a [...]

I’ve recently provided some articles on how I am currently using Mindjet MindManager Pro 7 for my writing project. However, MindManager has just had an upgrade to Version 8, with a whole swathe of new functionality which looks interesting from a writer’s viewpoint.

I was very recently contacted by Roger C Parker, the author of the Daily Writing Tips blog for writers. He picked up on my own liking towards mind maps for writing, and introduced himself and the benefits found on his membership website , Published and Profitable, and in the articles found on his blog.
Roger’s [...]

Now that I have completed my initial Mindmaps and outline using Scenes within the Writer’s Block software, I have today returned to working with MindMaps and setting up more in readiness for the novel writing to commence. Here is some of my work of today, with some description. I have created several new mindmaps, including [...]