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 »
This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting As the image hints, I’ve been dealing with a disaster in the family and it has knocked me off center for weeks now…and I thought I had been dealing with it just fine. However, as Marcus Aurelius insisted, I have slowly
Weekly Log – March 10, 2020: In Recovery Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting + 1,626 words (book started) Plotting usually comes more easily to me, but this book was painful. I’m a couple of days behind now, but I should be able to catch up without too much effort. Onwards….! t. [fusion_separator style_type=”shadow” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=””
Weekly Log – February 11, 2020: A painful week Read More »
Fast Does Not Equal Crap…but here’s what does. 2020 Edition. I received yet another review the other day, marvelling at the high standard of writing, which surprised them, given how fast I write books (and they don’t know about the other pen name, either). I sighed and moved on…I thought. Only, my brain kept
Fast Does Not Equal Crap…but here’s what does. Read More »
Book #18 for the year was finished on Saturday, and this was the one tripping me up because of the unfamiliar genre. Once I got over myself, it zoomed along.
Weekly Log – February 4, 2020: Rolling again. Read More »
I think we’ve all been there. Especially in day jobs where we’re showing up only for the pay cheque; on days where you just don’t want to be there, you find ways to look busy that don’t actually tax your brain too much. That’s busywork. When you are working for yourself, though, there is zero
Busywork versus Actual Work. How to figure it out. Read More »
