The BetaBooks Blog

News about BetaBooks, with thoughts on writing, reading, and publishing sprinkled in.
NaNoWriMo

NaNoVember - Day 2

On day one I got... a few bullet points down. Day two I got about 700 words, and about another chapter worth of bullet points. I've been trying to set aside a few solid hours each day to write. Working two jobs and taking graduate classes makes that pretty hard. ...
NaNoWriMo

NaNoVember - Day 1

Random assortment of thoughts after one day of NaNo: Don’t let his cheery talk fool you, Andrew twisted my arm and harangued me into taking on NaNoWriMo, despite the fact that my November is already insane scheduling-wise. Lucky for him I am a glutton for punishment and a little bit ...

It's November!

Writers, you know what that means. NaNoWriMo time! This month, Paul and I are going to do something a little crazy, a little brave, and—I hope—a little interesting. We're both doing NaNo, and we're going to share our adventure with you all by posting once a day about how it's ...

You should try writing out of order

This is a really short post, because it's a really short and simple lesson. This weekend I did something I've always heard / known was okay, but never really believed made sense and therefore never really tried. I wrote a chapter out of order from the rest of my work ...

The New Blog

Hardcore fans of BetaBooks may have noticed we have a new look on our blog, as well as a new URL. Whereas we previously ran the blog on our subdomain (blog.betabooks.co), today we've switched to a subfolder instead (betabooks.co/blog). This is apparently a big big deal for SEO purposes . ...