This week’s log: Monday: Planning for Grocery Shopping Tuesday: Grocery Shopping Wednesday: Schedule and Business discussions Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting It was a weird week because of the first three items. I worked my ass off last week, but with little to show for it. We are only grocery shopping every three weeks at the […]
Weekly Log – May 12, 2020: And a Weird One Read More »
There’s a great deal of chatter online at the moment about the mental health of everyone still in lockdown and stuck at home. I can vouch for that, and I even know why. The first two weeks of being stuck at home, I could not get my shit together for neither love nor money. I
How to Pull Yourself Out Of Your Funk – An Unexpected Method Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: Worldbuilding Tuesday: Worldbuilding Wednesday: Worldbuilding Thursday: Worldbuilding + Character building Friday: Character Building + Series Arcs It was another week of nothing to show except for a lot of words on blank pages and a great deal of research, reading and staring at the screen as I mulled over possibilities. But I
Weekly Log – May 5, 2020: Plus One More. Read More »
This Is The New Normal In April, 14 Million people in the USA applied for unemployment benefits. Six million people applied for emergency assistance in Canada. Around the world, the numbers of unemployed and those with reduced income are proportional to populations. Last week, my government spoke for the first time about the duration of
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This week’s log: Monday: Worldbuilding Tuesday: Worldbuilding Wednesday: Worldbuilding Thursday: Worldbuilding Friday: Worldbuilding Another solid week. This one didn’t quite feel so accomplished, though. Plotting never does. It’s too amorphous to begin, as you cast around looking for character and plot lines and try weaving something coherent out of the mess. It’s not until you
Weekly Log – April 28, 2020: Another Solid Week Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 5,666 Words Tuesday: 5,322 Words Wednesday: 4,188 Words + Plotting time. Thursday: 5,022 Words Friday: 6,237 Words (Finished Book) For a total of 26,435 words. It was a good, solid week, the first I’ve had in a while. I’ll be talking more about what made the difference, in a later post.
Weekly Log – April 21, 2020: Finally, A Good Week Read More »
Just a quick post this week. I’m getting back into the working groove and suddenly becoming (re)aware of the plethora of distractions that can lure you away from your manuscript–especially when you’re working at home, which is pretty much all of us right now. When you’re at home, you don’t have people looking over your
A More Deadly Weapon Against Distractions Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: Nothing Tuesday: Nothing Wednesday: 456 Words Thursday: 6,388 Words Friday: 5,407 Words. For a total of 12,251 words. Still a bit shaky, this week. Figuring out how to cook and freeze everything so fresh food lasts for three weeks is a major mindset shift. But I did a lot of reading
Weekly Log – April 14, 2020: Shaky Start Read More »
Words used to flow easily for me. Not so much, these days. I — like you, I am sure — am struggling to get words down in a regular manner. The puzzling thing for me was why am I struggling? I’m not sick. No one in my immediate family is sick (thanks to whoever
Distractions Always Happen, and You Aren’t ‘Less Than’ Because of Them Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: 3,034 Words Wednesday: 5,893 Words Thursday: 4,285 Words Friday: Nothing. For a total of 13,212 words, which puts me in a 6,788 word deficit. I wasn’t going to do a work log post today, because last week was still a bit of a scramble, which was embarrassing. However,
Weekly Log – March 10, 2020: In Recovery Read More »
