Just a quick thought-prodding idea for today, from something I’ve found myself doing, lately. If you have a writing schedule, then it’s likely your brain knows exactly when you’re supposed to start. For me, that’s 5.30 am to get into yesterday’s edits, and I should be writing new manuscript by 6 am. But when you […]
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Total for the week: 36,753 words. I finished the current novel, and plotted and wrote an 11K novelette last week. (Which brings me up to 9 novels/novellas/novelettes for the year.) This brought me up to date with my current schedule and takes a considerable amount of pressure off. Now I need to focus on hitting
Weekly Log – April 20: Baby steps. Read More »
I’m pretty savvy with technology. I had the first computer out of everyone I knew–a for-gosh-sake Commodore 64, complete with printer and floppy disk drive. I ran a resume service using that computer. Yeah, really. Then I switched to an MS-DOS PC with a whole 20mb on the hard drive! Ooooh! I wrote stories using
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Total for the week: 15,737 words. Not thrilled with this word count, but I’m still on track to meet the deadline for finishing the current book. My major focus is still consistency, (which is still eluding me) and I had some major insights on this during the week, that I’ll talk about in one of
Weekly Log – April 13: Shaky, but recovering. Read More »
Many years ago, I learned that many professional, full time writers have workstations dedicated ONLY to writing. All the other business of writing — bookkeeping, promotion, post production, etc — all that business was kept on a separate computer. Or computers. Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith, in particular, are well known for have
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Total for the week: 30,124 words + this post. Not too shabby, this week. I got the next book plotting and quite a few words into writing it, too. I’m working super hard on remaining consistent each day, instead of feast-or-famine wordcounts. t.
Weekly Log – April 6: Proceeding. Read More »
I’ve tried standing desks. I’ve used sitting desks. And I’ve even used a device that would turn my sitting desk into a sit/stand desk, which only lasted for about a year before I gave it up and went back to sitting. In the last year, thanks to that global event we’re all so sick of
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Total for the week: 37,261 words. Not quite as many words as last week, but that’s because I finished the last book, spent a day plotting the next novelette, a day writing it and a day plotting the next book. I’m quite pleased with the steady progress of the week. Starting a new book is
Weekly Log – March 30: *Much* Better! Read More »
This is part two of a series. See Part One In the first post on this short series, I deal with the types of blocks and mental fallacies that can stop you from writing. The infamous Writer’s Block. At the end of the post, I outlined ways to deal with such blocks. All the steps
Total for the week: 40,385 words. Normally, that many words would be a decent week. It’s nearly 5,800 words a day. But at the moment, to try and get ahead of my production schedule so I have a decent amount of post production time for each book, I need to write 9,000 words a day
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