Creative careers are mercurial and uncertain (algorithm change, anyone?). Surviving over the long term requires strategic thinking, and not a little hard work.
Why Being Productive And Prolific Pays Off In The Long Term Read More »
Plotting Help For the Prolific I feel like I’ve been recommending books a lot lately. Only, I’ve been reading some great how-tos, that I simply have to share. Bear with me a for a couple more mentions. A few months ago, I wrote a post about making your plotting more efficient, in response to a direct
Plotman To the Rescue Read More »
Do you have a fully developed Production Schedule, with release dates for the next year? Do you still find you’re skipping writing dates, and cramming an entire novel’s worth of writing into ten days before the deadline? Want to know a way around that? This was me up until a couple of weeks ago. The
How to Really Commit, and MAKE Yourself Write. Read More »
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
Weekly Log – September 19, 2018 – A Solid Week. Read More »
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 »
Last week’s log: MONDAY Computer issues TUESDAY Computer issues WEDNESDAY Computer issues THURSDAY Computer rebuild. FRIDAY Computer rebuild SATURDAY 6,108 words …’nuff said. See, this is what I mean about never knowing what is around the corner. I had a 120Gb SSD for my root drive, which maxed out thanks to resource hog programs like Dragon
Weekly Log – August 28, 2018 – Wipeout. Read More »
Last week’s log: MONDAY 0 Plotting TUESDAY 0 Plotting WEDNESDAY 0 Plotting THURSDAY 3,082 words FRIDAY 9,090 words SATURDAY 6,212 words For a total of 18,384 words over three working days. Last week was a nice, steady week. I finished plotting halfway through Thursday morning and immediately rolled over into writing manuscript. The rest of the week
Weekly Log – August 21, 2018 – Holding Steady Read More »
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
Weekly Log – August 14, 2018 – Gear Down Read More »
Anne Lamott is famous for having said we should all write shitty first drafts. As I’ve learned to write faster, I’ve come to believe that shitty first drafts are the worst thing a writer should aim for. The pulp writers of old wrote the cleanest first drafts you’ve ever seen. Every time they stopped to
Textual Shorthand For Manuscripts, or: Do NOT Click Away! Read More »
Last week’s log: MONDAY 9,654 TUESDAY 9,892 WEDNESDAY 0 THURSDAY 0 FRIDAY 0 SATURDAY 0 For a total of 19,546 words. I finished the current book on Tuesday and have been plotting a brand new series for the rest of the week. Because the series is new there is more research and world building, and characters
Weekly Log – August 7, 2018 – Accelerating Read More »
