This week’s log: Monday: 5,382 Words Tuesday: Nothing Wednesday: Nothing Thursday: Nothing Friday: 8,529 Words Saturday: 5,660 Words Sunday: 14,210 Words For a total of 33,781 words for the week. Lasts week’s mundanity was a temporary reprieve. It was the first of the month this week, and there was a production crisis as a result. […]
Weekly Log – October 8, 2019: A blip Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 5,132 Words Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: Workshop Preparation Saturday: Workshop Presentation Sunday: Plotting For a total of 5,132 words for the week. No drama this week. I feel I should apologize for that, except that it was nice to have a smooth week, with the plotting going well.
Weekly Log – October 1, 2019: Bring on the stillness Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 5,284 Words Tuesday: 6,186 Words Wednesday: 5,576 Words Thursday: 5,498 Words Friday: 5,691 Words Saturday: 5,234 Words Sunday: 2,360 Words For a total of 35,827 words for the week. It appears the new plan is working. Last week was so solid you could give yourself concussion if you ran into it.
Weekly Log – September 24, 2019: Oh, sweet relief!! Read More »
There are very few drawbacks to indie publishing. Challenges, certainly, but the independent author tends to thrive on challenges and prefer it that way. Hard work aplenty, too. Downsides, not so much. Most of the “downsides” you see reported elsewhere, we consider positives: Having no one else to rely upon but ourselves is a good
When Your Creativity Goes Stale. Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 5,294 Words Tuesday: 8,023 Words Wednesday: 2,945 Words Thursday: 0 Words Friday: 0 Words Saturday: 0 Words Sunday: 5,293 Words For a total of 21,555 words for the week. As I railed at myself last week, this week’s mission was simple. Stick with the schedule. Which I patently did not. By
Weekly Log – September 17, 2019: Holy Sheep-dip, Batman! Read More »
Writing sprints, as reintroduced by Chris Fox in his book, 5,000 Words Per Hour, is one of the most useful tools for increasing your hourly word count. I use them regularly to increase my words per hour rate. I don’t use them all the time, for a number of reasons. I will go back
Tailor Writing Sprints to Maximize Flow Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 10,079 Words Tuesday: 10,162 Words Wednesday: 10,126 Words Thursday: 5,362 Words Friday: Plotting Saturday: Plotting Sunday: Off For a total of 35,729 words for the week. This week was a challenge. No lie. I sweated getting the 10K/day pace I find so easy in other genres. All three 10K days, it
Weekly Log – September 10, 2019: Better. Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 0 Words Tuesday: 0 Words Wednesday: 0 Words Thursday: 0 Words Friday: 10,472 Words Saturday: 11,498 Words Sunday: 6,165 Words & Monthly accounting For a total of 28,135 words for the week. I lied. Last week I mentioned that the phone company was laying fiber optic cables around our neighborhood and
Weekly Log – September 3, 2019: Ugh… Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Book #10 Tuesday: Plotting Book #10 Wednesday: Plotting Book #10 Thursday: 5,392 Words Friday: 8,180 Words Saturday: Nope. For a total of 13,572 words for the week. As I was planning, last week, I did get some words done on Book #10 this week. Just not as many as I
Weekly Log – August 27, 2019: Weekends are Slippery Read More »
If you’re drowning — and we’ve all been there — there are some triage tactics you can employ to stop your embolism for 24 hours. I am a huge fan of Leo Babauta’s Zen Habits blog. Quite a while ago, he ran a post on exactly that. “When You Have Too Much To Do” outlines
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