This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: 5,782 words Friday: 0 words Saturday: 0 words For a total of 5,782 words for the week. Note to self: Don’t ever again organize a giveaway with 124 prizes!! I’m actually stunned I wrote anything at all on Thursday, as that was the release day for […]
Weekly Log – July 30, 2019: …and then worse. Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 1,984 words Tuesday: 10,427 words Wednesday: 5,037 words Thursday: 2,743 words Friday: 15,035 words Saturday: 5,763 words For a total of 40,989 words for the week. Finished book #8 on Saturday and took Sunday off–sort of (I still did some production work). I think Friday’s 60 pages is a personal best
Weekly Log – July 22, 2019: Better. Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 0 words Tuesday: 0 words Wednesday: 0 words Thursday: 5,915 words Friday: 8,764 words Saturday: 8,255 words For a total of 22.934 words for the week. The first half of the week, I was officially on the sick list. I wrote about it in last Friday’s big post. Thursday, I was
Weekly Log – July 15, 2019: Re-orienting. Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 0 words Tuesday: 0 words Wednesday: 0 words Thursday: 0 words Friday: 0 words Saturday: 0 words For a total of 0 words for the week. I could not have told you what I was doing last week. I just…didn’t…write. Today, (Monday before the post goes live) I didn’t write either.
Weekly Log – July 9, 2019: WTF??? Read More »
Quite a while ago, I sent out a Sunday email to the newsletter list, talking about incorporating sick & play time into your production schedule. Unfortunately, that email has been lost because of a sudden move to a different email service provider, with no chance to recover archived emails. I’ve referred to sick & play
This week’s log: Monday: Production & marketing Tuesday: 9,278 words Wednesday: 6,390 words Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting Saturday: Plotting For a total of 15,668 words for the week. I finished off the production work from last week on Monday, then got right back into the current book, which I finished on Tuesday. Then straight over
Weekly Log – July 2, 2019: #7 Done. Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 8,214 words Tuesday: 7,752 words Wednesday: Production & marketing Thursday: Production & marketing Friday: Production & marketing Saturday: Production & marketing For a total of 15,966 words for the week. It was a low word count week, but a high-volume and productive week in other terms. I was forced to put
Weekly Log – June 24, 2019: Gearing Up. Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: 6,413 Words Thursday: 5,965 Words Friday: 7,039 Words Saturday: 9,491 Words For a total of 28,908 words for the week. Finished the plot on the current book a day earlier than scheduled, rolled straight over into the writing. As usual, the front end of the book was
Weekly Log – June 18, 2019: A good, solid week, with time off, too. Read More »
There was an interesting discussion over at the KillZone on the weekend, initiated by a post by James Scott Bell (one of my author heroes); “Should You Write Dreck?“. I’ll let you check that out — and maybe wander over to the Joe Konrath post that kicked off James Scott Bell, too. I thought it
Scheduling Quality Into Your Books Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 5,449 Words Tuesday: 6,452 Words Wednesday: 7,961 Words Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting For a total of 19,862 words for the week. Finished the science fiction novel…and that series. That’s book #5 for the year. Back to the old comfortable-slipper-like romance genre for a few books. I’m cramming for the next few
Weekly Log – June 11, 2019: #5 Done and Dusted Read More »
