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Plotman To the Rescue

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 […]

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How to Really Commit, and MAKE Yourself Write.

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

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Weekly Log – September 19, 2018 – A Solid Week.

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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Weekly Log – September 11, 2018 – Caught Inside.

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

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Weekly Log – August 28, 2018 – Wipeout.

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

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Weekly Log – August 21, 2018 – Holding Steady

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

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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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