Last week’s log: MONDAY: Plotting next book TUESDAY: Plotting next book WEDNESDAY: Plotting next book THURSDAY: Plotting next book, plotting Nov 11 novelette. FRIDAY: 5,346 SATURDAY: 4,626 SUNDAY: Production, Nov 11 Novelette. The teeny word count really doesn’t portray how jam-packed this week was. I got the next full novel on my production schedule plotted […]
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Strategy Number Three: Environment. How did you go with just starting? In part four of our series on defeating resistance, this week I’m looking at the environment where you write. Sometimes, you have no control over the physical environment in which you write. The local coffee shop is going to be noisy, although there
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Last week’s log: MONDAY: 7,839 TUESDAY: 7,305 WEDNESDAY: 8,169 THURSDAY: 6,104 FRIDAY: 9,255 SATURDAY: 11,737 (Finished book) For a total word count of 50,409 words for the week. Another really good solid week. I finished the book on Saturday, which now puts me only nine days behind my production schedule. The next book on the
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Strategy Number Two: Just Start. Last week we looked at some of the mental blocks that help resistance get a foothold in your brain. When resistance is at its most active, though, is the few moments before you sit down and start writing, to about twenty minutes after you have “started” (if you actually
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Last week’s log: MONDAY: Plotting TUESDAY: Plotting WEDNESDAY: Plotting, and into writing: 3,002 words THURSDAY: 6,552 words FRIDAY: 5,067 words SATURDAY: 5,002 SUNDAY: 5,009 For a total word count of 24,625 words for the week. It was not a terrible week last week. It was a good solid week in terms of word count. It just
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Strategy Number One: Mindset Today we’re looking at the first strategy of five approaches to defeating resistance and getting more written. Last week [here] I explained why you need these five strategies. All of us do. Resistance is built into the human psyche. How you approach resistance, deal with it, and how you think
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Last week’s log: MONDAY: 4,988 words TUESDAY: 6,399 words WEDNESDAY: Plotting (half-day only) THURSDAY: Family function FRIDAY: Plotting SATURDAY: Writers’ meeting SUNDAY: Plotting I anticipated this highly unproductive week. Family commitments on Wednesday and Thursday were going to take a chunk out of my day, if not all of my day. A meeting in my city for
Weekly Log – September 11, 2018 – Caught Inside. Read More »
What is resistance? Are you a victim of it? Probably! The term “Resistance” was first coined by Steven Pressfield in his book, The War of Art. To Pressfield, Resistance is an external entity against whom artists must wage war to win at the game of writing. For him, Resistance always has a capital “R”. As
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Last week’s log: MONDAY: 6,635 words TUESDAY: 12,374 words WEDNESDAY: 9,481 words THURSDAY: 10,495 words FRIDAY: 12,002 words SATURDAY: 5,547 words For a total of 56,534 words for the week. It’s interesting how much your perspective can change in the space of a week or so. If you look merely at the word count, this was a spectacular week
Weekly Log – September 4, 2018 – Still in the soup. Read More »
This is a three-part series: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | If you have followed along with Part One and Part Two of this blog post, then you will have all your prep work done and be ready to dive into building your first production schedule. So let’s go. Backwards or Forwards?
