Weekly Log – May 25: In the middle of a life roll…
Came home from the ER late last night. Still recovering. More next week…but this is not a good week! t.
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What Your Daily Word Count Should Be
Michael Crichton is my hero. I only just found out. Here’s why: I get a lot of email from authors asking how many words a day they should be writing. I confess that the question puzzles me and I’ve hedge and hummed and fumbled to find a useful answer because the real answer is: “Whatever
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Weekly Log – May 18: Onward.
Total for the week: 16,612 words. I did sort of turn things around this week, as I spoke about in last week’s log. I finished book 8 of the year (that is, story 8 of my primary production schedule, which doesn’t include the secondary stories I’ve completed), but got bogged down in figuring out work
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Just Start — Let’s Revisit This Idea
For a long time, now, I have spoken of “Just Starting” (here and here and a lot of other posts, too) as a way of overcoming your resistance to getting into a writing session. The basic approach I have, whenever Resistance shows up, and if I don’t fall prey to it, is to tell myself:
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Weekly Log – May 11: Still Staggering.
Total for the week: 13,111 words. Yugh. Terrible week. Not completely beyond redemption — hey, I got something written. But it was still a woeful week. I could point at a couple of things as excuses: new diet adjustments, new exercise regimen, energy in the toilet for most of it while I adjusted. But there’s
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Another Factor That Might Change Your Mind About Writing to Market
There is a class of Indie author mindset out there that promotes prolific writing, using Kindle Unlimited, launching hard, making sure your Amazon Also Boughts are clean, and writing absolutely to market as the only way to make serious money writing fiction. I did buy into that approach for a year or so. It seemed
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Weekly Log – May 4: Teetering….
Total for the week: 28,231 words. A couple of wobbly days, but I finally got a handle on things by the end of the week. I’ve sorted out my schedule and what I need to do to get back on track. I reread Steven Pressfield’s classic The War of Art, which helped me reground. A
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Diaries, Journals, Notebooks. What’s the difference?
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” ― Flannery O’Connor From <https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/315733-i-write-because-i-don-t-know-what-i-think-until> There’s a lot of hype around journal-writing for authors. Julia Cameron, in The Artist’s Way, calls journaling ‘Morning Pages’ and credits them with nothing short of creative miracles. In the early twentieth century, authors and writers
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Weekly Log – April 27: F*ck me.
Total for the week: 0 words. When I wrote last week’s work log post, I had no idea what the week had in store for me. I plotted the next book on Monday. Tuesday, two of us in our household who qualified, age-wise, (and wow, that’s depressing), lined up for three hours to get AstraZeneca
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Watch, thou, for thy mutant voice!
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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