Bradbury’s Take on Productivity
Ray Bradbury wrote 27 novels and over 600 short stories. More than eight million copies of his works, published in over 36 languages, have been sold around the world.
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The Discipline of Dancers
Discipline tends to get a bad rap these days. In productivity circles, it is equated to white-knuckling your way through tasks with iron-jawed determination, which will naturally and absolutely end in failure. In diet circles, discipline is the same as holding your teeth together, sitting on your hands and mutely shaking your head “no” when
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Weekly Log – April 10, 2018
Last week, I wrote 4,263 on the current book, and did a lot of production work, including writing all the interstitial material for the box set that has been suddenly dumped into the production schedule to make up for my lax ways. This coming week should see a heavy production of words on the current book,
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Weekly Log – April 3, 2018
I’d like to beat my chest and say I got screwed by the calendar, this week. Only, it’s my problem, because I didn’t look up and pay attention. I had a good week, word count wise. Not brilliant, but a good solid week: MONDAY 5,392 TUESDAY 7,721 WEDNESDAY 4,502 THURSDAY 7,946 FRIDAY 6,899 SATURDAY 4,936 SUNDAY
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Just Start. That’s it.
I didn’t want to write this post. I was tempted to blow it off, because finally, finally, the book has a full head of steam and I’m just making sure the boiler stays stoked and hanging on the for the ride. There is no better feeling–no, not even that. Being in flow and creating a story has no
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Weekly Log – March 27, 2018
This week was a freaking disaster. I’m not sure what is worse: The blank wasteland of my week, or having to report upon it here. Both, I think. I have no genuine excuses. I’m not even sure it was Resistance beating me. It was simply a week of tiny excuses that were used to
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The Best Time Saver Is In Your Hand (or on your Desktop)
To Google something has crept into the language and is now a formal euphamism for searching online. However, Google can do a lot more than just regurgitate search results. There is a ton of useful tools that Google will invoke to provide answers directly on the results page. Google will also provide links to sites
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The #1 Way to Guarantee You Write Every Time You Mean To
How Resistance lures you Having a finely tuned writing schedule doesn’t do diddly for your productivity if you never follow it. Saying you’re going to write for two hours after supper tonight will quell the nag in your brain for the rest of the day, but when you actually sit down at the keyboard, do
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Weekly Log – March 20, 2018
It was a very solid week, this week. However, because I was plotting, I have no word counts to give you. I was plotting the second book in an historical series. Second books are always heavy-duty on the plot end, because while the basic series is set up in the first book, when I get
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