The Road To NaNoWriMo: A Post-Mortem
Stella Torres
November 14, 2018
Note: This will be the last blog entry of 2018, and the last entry before the site goes through a major redesign for the new year. Hope you enjoy!
The Road to NaNoWriMo 2018: Cuts from The Playlist
Stella Torres
October 30, 2018
Personally, I don’t like to write to music, unless it’s instrumental or part of the background noise if I’m writing outside the house. That doesn’t mean music isn’t a part of my writing journey, though, because there are times when I do need something to psych me up for my writing. This year’s playlist is all about happiness and low
The Road to NaNoWriMo 2018: A Prep Overview
Stella Torres
October 21, 2018
One of the reasons why I disappeared from this blog had to do with the fact that I had spent most of my writing life in September and October working on the storyboard for the next Hideaway Trilogy book, Ten Weeks and Counting (title may change upon notice). While I might not be able to blog every day like I did when
The Good and The Bad
Stella Torres
October 29, 2017
Let me start with the bad news first: This may be the last time I will be posting on this blog, or at least in this space. There are a lot of things going on–novel revisions being one of them (and I’ll get to this later)–but the main thing is that I’ve decided on moving this blog to a new
The Road to NaNoWriMo: Week 2 and 3 Recap
Stella Torres
November 21, 2016
I’m sorry I forgot to post last week; I had so many things going on over the weekend that I wasn’t able to post anything substantial. But what’s most important to note here is that, in the span of three weeks, I managed to do something that I would not have been able to do in any year: I FINISHED!
The Road to NaNoWriMo 2016: Week 1 Progress
Stella Torres
November 7, 2016
(Screengrab: my original Scrivener file for Nine Years Away. Click to enlarge!) And we’re off! It’s been only five days, but I’ve been seeing some progress. Right now my word count is at 14,977 words, with an average of 2.496 words daily according to the NaNoWriMo site–a little over the 2,000 words per day that I’ve allotted for myself this
Stella Torres
is the author of the adult contemporary romances Save the Cake, Crushingly Close, and Nine Years Away, as well as the short story “Be Creative” in the anthology Kids These Days: Stories from Luna East Vol. 1.
In her previous life, she has worked in public relations, taught English as a second language, and even attended graduate school (twice!). She has lived in Indonesia, Honolulu, and Quezon City before moving back to her hometown of Los Banos, a few hours’ drive (with traffic) from the heart of Manila.