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
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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 »
As you can imagine, I read a lot of productivity books. Every month, more of them pop up. And over the last year or so I’ve noticed a trend in the common philosophy of many of them. It is the tiny habit approach to productivity. And I can’t tell you how much that trend
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This week’s log: Monday: Planning for Grocery Shopping Tuesday: Grocery Shopping Wednesday: Schedule and Business discussions Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting It was a weird week because of the first three items. I worked my ass off last week, but with little to show for it. We are only grocery shopping every three weeks at the
Weekly Log – May 12, 2020: And a Weird One Read More »
There’s a great deal of chatter online at the moment about the mental health of everyone still in lockdown and stuck at home. I can vouch for that, and I even know why. The first two weeks of being stuck at home, I could not get my shit together for neither love nor money. I
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This week’s log: Monday: Worldbuilding Tuesday: Worldbuilding Wednesday: Worldbuilding Thursday: Worldbuilding + Character building Friday: Character Building + Series Arcs It was another week of nothing to show except for a lot of words on blank pages and a great deal of research, reading and staring at the screen as I mulled over possibilities. But I
Weekly Log – May 5, 2020: Plus One More. Read More »
