Following up on last week’s post, “How I Got Published, and What I Learned Along The Way“. I mentioned in that post that the book would be part of Kevin J. Anderson’s NaNoWriMo bundle for authors. The bundle is now available, and includes inspirational how-to books from a great many authors you’ll recognize: Joanna Penn, […]
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This week’s log: Monday: 5,382 Words Tuesday: Nothing Wednesday: Nothing Thursday: Nothing Friday: 8,529 Words Saturday: 5,660 Words Sunday: 14,210 Words For a total of 33,781 words for the week. Lasts week’s mundanity was a temporary reprieve. It was the first of the month this week, and there was a production crisis as a result.
Weekly Log – October 8, 2019: A blip Read More »
Something a little bit different today. I was recently invited to join a how-to anthology scheduled to publish shortly before NaNoWriMo month, for this year’s entrants to take advantage of. While the anthology was still in production, it was picked up by Kevin J. Anderson for his NaNoWriMo StoryBundle, and the release date advanced by
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This week’s log: Monday: 5,132 Words Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: Workshop Preparation Saturday: Workshop Presentation Sunday: Plotting For a total of 5,132 words for the week. No drama this week. I feel I should apologize for that, except that it was nice to have a smooth week, with the plotting going well.
Weekly Log – October 1, 2019: Bring on the stillness Read More »
Just in the last few weeks, economists and financial experts have been throwing around the dreaded “R” word. Recession. To be clear, they’re speaking of the USA heading toward a recession. However, it doesn’t really matter where you sit on the globe, a recession in the USA tends to reach out and clobber a whole
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This week’s log: Monday: 5,284 Words Tuesday: 6,186 Words Wednesday: 5,576 Words Thursday: 5,498 Words Friday: 5,691 Words Saturday: 5,234 Words Sunday: 2,360 Words For a total of 35,827 words for the week. It appears the new plan is working. Last week was so solid you could give yourself concussion if you ran into it.
Weekly Log – September 24, 2019: Oh, sweet relief!! Read More »
There are very few drawbacks to indie publishing. Challenges, certainly, but the independent author tends to thrive on challenges and prefer it that way. Hard work aplenty, too. Downsides, not so much. Most of the “downsides” you see reported elsewhere, we consider positives: Having no one else to rely upon but ourselves is a good
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This week’s log: Monday: 5,294 Words Tuesday: 8,023 Words Wednesday: 2,945 Words Thursday: 0 Words Friday: 0 Words Saturday: 0 Words Sunday: 5,293 Words For a total of 21,555 words for the week. As I railed at myself last week, this week’s mission was simple. Stick with the schedule. Which I patently did not. By
Weekly Log – September 17, 2019: Holy Sheep-dip, Batman! Read More »
Writing sprints, as reintroduced by Chris Fox in his book, 5,000 Words Per Hour, is one of the most useful tools for increasing your hourly word count. I use them regularly to increase my words per hour rate. I don’t use them all the time, for a number of reasons. I will go back
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This week’s log: Monday: 10,079 Words Tuesday: 10,162 Words Wednesday: 10,126 Words Thursday: 5,362 Words Friday: Plotting Saturday: Plotting Sunday: Off For a total of 35,729 words for the week. This week was a challenge. No lie. I sweated getting the 10K/day pace I find so easy in other genres. All three 10K days, it
Weekly Log – September 10, 2019: Better. Read More »
