Weekly Log – August 14, 2018 – Gear Down

Last week’s log: MONDAY 0  Plotting TUESDAY 0 Plotting WEDNESDAY 0 Plotting THURSDAY 0 Conference prep FRIDAY 0 Conference SATURDAY 0 Conference I’m continuing with the driving analogy this week because it’s even more appropriate. Word count last week was a big fat zero — if I don’t count the nearly two weeks’ worth of posts and […]

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Weekly Log – July 31, 2018 – Small Step Back

Last week’s log: MONDAY 4,403 TUESDAY 1,183 WEDNESDAY 2,845 THURSDAY 1,206 FRIDAY 2,339 SATURDAY 3,685 SUNDAY 3,908 For a total of 19,569 words. If you looking at last week’s numbers and wondering what happened, you’re with me. This is one of the things that occasionally happens when you’re writing for long enough. Sometimes you have to take a

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How to Set Up Your Writing Schedule, Kill Stress and Get Things Done

How do you decide when you’re going to write? Do you move through your day, hoping time will magically open up when you can sit and scribble a few hundred words on your current manuscript? Do you get to the end of your day and feel frustrated, because you never opened the manuscript at all?

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Weekly Log – July 24, 2018 – Holding the Pace (for now)

Last week’s log: MONDAY 0 TUESDAY 0 WEDNESDAY 6,199 THURSDAY 5,550 FRIDAY 6,398 SATURDAY 5,197 For a total of 23,334 words. I finished plotting the book on Tuesday and starting the first draft on Wednesday.  This is fast by anyone’s count, but the book is the eighth in a series, and not only do I know the story

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How to write faster, right now. (Prove it in 30 minutes!)

  I spent two weeks explaining how it was possible to train yourself to be prolific.  Writing more words per hour is just a small part of the overall strategies that a prolific writer needs to employ, but it’s the one that gets the most resistance.  After all, it’s not like you deliberately dawdle when

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Weekly Log – July 17, 2018 – Building up Steam

Last week’s log: MONDAY 0 TUESDAY 6,704 WEDNESDAY 9,363 THURSDAY 8,516 FRIDAY 9,014 SATURDAY 0 For a total of 33,597 words. I finished the book on Friday and immediately rolled into plotting on Saturday.  Today (your yesterday if you read this the day it posts) I’m wrapping up the last of the plot and will slide into writing

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