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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“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
Diaries, Journals, Notebooks. What’s the difference? Read More »
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
Weekly Log – April 27: F*ck me. Read More »
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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