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 »
This Is The New Normal In April, 14 Million people in the USA applied for unemployment benefits. Six million people applied for emergency assistance in Canada. Around the world, the numbers of unemployed and those with reduced income are proportional to populations. Last week, my government spoke for the first time about the duration of
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This week’s log: Monday: Worldbuilding Tuesday: Worldbuilding Wednesday: Worldbuilding Thursday: Worldbuilding Friday: Worldbuilding Another solid week. This one didn’t quite feel so accomplished, though. Plotting never does. It’s too amorphous to begin, as you cast around looking for character and plot lines and try weaving something coherent out of the mess. It’s not until you
Weekly Log – April 28, 2020: Another Solid Week Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 5,666 Words Tuesday: 5,322 Words Wednesday: 4,188 Words + Plotting time. Thursday: 5,022 Words Friday: 6,237 Words (Finished Book) For a total of 26,435 words. It was a good, solid week, the first I’ve had in a while. I’ll be talking more about what made the difference, in a later post.
Weekly Log – April 21, 2020: Finally, A Good Week Read More »
Just a quick post this week. I’m getting back into the working groove and suddenly becoming (re)aware of the plethora of distractions that can lure you away from your manuscript–especially when you’re working at home, which is pretty much all of us right now. When you’re at home, you don’t have people looking over your
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This week’s log: Monday: Nothing Tuesday: Nothing Wednesday: 456 Words Thursday: 6,388 Words Friday: 5,407 Words. For a total of 12,251 words. Still a bit shaky, this week. Figuring out how to cook and freeze everything so fresh food lasts for three weeks is a major mindset shift. But I did a lot of reading
Weekly Log – April 14, 2020: Shaky Start Read More »
Words used to flow easily for me. Not so much, these days. I — like you, I am sure — am struggling to get words down in a regular manner. The puzzling thing for me was why am I struggling? I’m not sick. No one in my immediate family is sick (thanks to whoever
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This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: 3,034 Words Wednesday: 5,893 Words Thursday: 4,285 Words Friday: Nothing. For a total of 13,212 words, which puts me in a 6,788 word deficit. I wasn’t going to do a work log post today, because last week was still a bit of a scramble, which was embarrassing. However,
Weekly Log – March 10, 2020: In Recovery Read More »
Well. Who saw that coming? The last time I posted anything, I blithely spoke about getting back to normal, picking up the traces, after being handed a life roll that flattened me for a while. Then Covid19 reached Canada and the borders were closed and… …I should probably back up a bit, because just like
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This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting As the image hints, I’ve been dealing with a disaster in the family and it has knocked me off center for weeks now…and I thought I had been dealing with it just fine. However, as Marcus Aurelius insisted, I have slowly
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