Mark Coker at Smashwords just put out a mid-year set of predictions for the “post-pandemic” publishing world. I feel he’s maybe a little premature, as I suspect the pandemic will be around for most of this year—we’re still to be hit with the second wave (which is just starting up in China). But the post […]
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Monday: 3,139 words Tuesday: 5,350 words Wednesday: Admin Thursday: Admin Friday: Admin Saturday: Back to plotting For a total word count of 8,489 words for the week. The crisis I was trying to out-write happened anyway. I wasn’t actually surprised or disturbed by it, because I had semi anticipated it. I’ll have more detail about
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Ryan Holiday has a post, “How Your Daily Routine Can Turn Into Your Biggest Enemy“, where he talks about how routines and rituals can make you fragile and easy to throw off-kilter–all of which is true. His solution is to have routines, not just a routine. If you prefer to write in silence, but they’re
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I’m not putting a log down for this week. There’s nothing to show, except a few thousand words. It was a week of frustrations, distractions, and changes of direction that required lots of work to implement. I’m badly behind on the current book now, and will have to double-down in superhuman ways to catch up.
Weekly Log – June 16, 2020: Where the hell did the week go??? Read More »
This is Part 3 of an informal series about Pen Names. See Part 1 or Part 2 or Part 3 or Part 4. In the previous posts about pen names, I’ve stayed fairly theoretical; all the reasons you should (and occasionally, shouldn’t) use pen names. As I write this post in June 2020, my stance on the use of pen names
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This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting Saturday: Plotting. Sunday: off. For a total of 0 words for the week. A very calm week consisting of endless plotting. I’ve decided that plotting takes far too much time relative to the actual writing of the book. I’m taking just as
Weekly Log – June 9, 2020: Solid Week With Nothing to Show For It Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 9,857 words Tuesday: 10,214 words Wednesday: 10,099 words Thursday: 9,819 words Friday: 9,155 words (book done) Saturday: Plotting. Sunday: off. For a total of 49,144 words for the week. It was a long, solid and tiring week. I’m still getting used to this new schedule. Although, on the other hand, if
Weekly Log – June 2, 2020: Now We’re Getting Somewhere. Read More »
Most of us are time crunched, and squeeze in 30 minute or one hour writing dashes one or more times a day, getting books written in increments. And this is absolutely a fantastic way to write in the cracks and margins of you day and still have a life. But. There are some serious side
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This week’s log: Monday: 7,714 words Tuesday: 6,369 words Wednesday: 10,174 words (Book done) Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting Saturday: 6,765 words Sunday: off. For a total of 31,022 words. The book that was running too long came in at 90,000 words. Then I rolled straight over into plotting the next book. As the next book
Weekly Log – May 26th, 2020: Crunch No More Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: Finished plotting & 4,738 words Tuesday: 9,776 words Wednesday: 9,844 words Thursday: 10,415 words Friday: 8,231 words Saturday: 8,427 words Sunday: 12,138 words For a total of 63,569 words. 63.5K words, and I’m not done with this book yet. I have just under half of the outline left. I’m glad I
Weekly Log – May 19, 2020: Crunch Mode Read More »
