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 »
This week’s log: Monday: 4,789 Words Tuesday: 7,533 Words Wednesday: 8,213 Words Thursday: 9,268 Words Friday: 3,950 Words For a total of 33,753 words for the week. For the first time in many years, I’m writing outside my comfortable, well-known genre. The genre I’m used to (romance) fits like a well-worn slipper. I wrote the
Weekly Log – June 03, 2019: A Wobble, But Still Going Read More »
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
How to Really Commit, and MAKE Yourself Write. Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: Cleaning up last book and prepping for editing round. Tuesday: Plotting next book. Wednesday: Plotting next book. Thursday: Plotting next book. Friday: Plotting next book. Saturday: Plotting next book. For a total of 0 words for the week. I finished the plot for book #6 for the year mid-Saturday and took
Weekly Log – May 28, 2019: Still Trucking Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting + 4,945 words Thursday: 10,239 words Friday: 10,205 words Saturday: 10,505 words Sunday: 10,063 words For a total of 45,957 words for the week. So, I caught up, as promised. Big time. 45K+ words in a week is more than my weekly word count on a full
Weekly Log – May 21, 2019: An Amazing Week Read More »
This is Part 2 of an informal series about Pen Names. See Part 1 or Part 2 or Part 3 or Part 4. A reader emailed me the other day to ask: I want to juggle 3 pen names. I know you’re also juggling pen names and projects and was wondering if you’d done a blog post on how you handle
Pen Names for the Prolific – How to Juggle Them Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 5,775 Words Tuesday: 4,700 Words & outlining Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting Saturday: Plotting For a total of 10,475 words for the week. This week was a bit of a scramble. I finished a book on Monday, then used Tuesday to finish a non-fiction article for an essay collection later
Weekly Log – May 14, 2019: Behind For Positive Reasons Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 0 Words Tuesday: 8,863 Wednesday: 7,541 Thursday: 0 Friday: 9,399 words Saturday: 5,573 words For a total of 31376 words for the week. The surprise is not how little I wrote (for me), but how much I actually got done. This week was a perfect storm: major new book launch with
Weekly Log – May 7, 2019: And another solid week. Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: 0 Words (Easter Monday) Tuesday: 8,281 Wednesday: 8,211 Thursday: 6,352 words Friday: 5,289 words Saturday: 3,917 words For a total of 32,050 words for the week. The not-difficult week of catching up didn’t go quite to plan. (Big surprise.) As the title of the post suggests, I’m pretty happy with the
Weekly Log – April 30, 2019: Solid, but not enough. Read More »
This week’s log: Monday: plotting Tuesday: plotting Wednesday: plotting Thursday: 2,501 words (plotting & started writing) Friday: 964 words Saturday: 212 words For a miserable total of 3,677 words for the week. The Easter long weekend sneaked up on me and caught me by surprise. Family dinners and other get-togethers sideswiped writing altogether. I couldn’t even
Weekly Log – April 23, 2019. Take that! Read More »
