This week’s log: Monday: Plotting Tuesday: Plotting Wednesday: Plotting Thursday: Plotting Friday: Plotting Saturday: Plotting The plotting went swimmingly, last week. There is zero pressure at the moment. I’m ahead of the production schedule just a smidge. Getting to the desk and starting work hasn’t been an issue — I think, in part, because of the six weeks off over […]
Weekly Log – February 13, 2019. Two Started Read More »
This is a factionalizing question. It’s an emotion-ladened one, too. Traditional publishing will tell you that one book a year is the expected rate. Many authors cringe at writing any faster than that. Romance publishers like to up the pace a bit — two to three novels a year is the norm. Four a year is
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This week’s log: Monday 4,300 words Tuesday 11,337 words Wednesday 6,985 words Thursday 6,836 words Friday 4,663 words Saturday – Editing. For a total of 34,121 words After two weeks of complaining that this book was being written very slowly because of the structure (short stories connected by a frame story), I finished the 60K
Weekly Log – February 5, 2019. One down. Read More »
This week’s log: Monday 3,151 words Tuesday 5,915 words Wednesday 4,695 words Thursday 5,684 words Friday 2,984 words For a total of 22,429 words As I suspected, the writing of this book is going slower than usual. It’s making me a little twitchy to see words put down this slowly, especially given my goals for the year. But I am
Weekly Log – January 29, 2019. Fresh energy! Read More »
This is a lesson I’ve (re)learned just in the last week or so. New year, new schedule. I’ve been jiggling things around, to change up from last year’s marathon sprint to get ahead by six weeks, so I could take a vacation. This year, I re-thought my writing schedule and what should go into my
How to squeeze absolutely *everything* you want to do into your day. Read More »
This week’s log: Friday: Plotting Saturday: 4,185 words Monday: 3,151 words. And welcome to 2019. My relatives left on their 48 hr flights to Australia on Thursday, so Friday, I got straight into the first book for the year. In fact, I was anxious to do so. The time off was nice, but I was ready to
Weekly Log – January 22, 2019 – Back to routine (phew!) Read More »
This time next week, I will be at the airport, picking up Strine-accented relatives. My Christmas vacation, which I have been working toward for well over six months, will have begun. So this is the last of the Weekly Work Log posts for this year. I will start the posts again in January, when I
Weekly Log – December 4, 2018 – Merry Christmas! Read More »
I’ve been busy catching up on blog posts and emails to cover me while I’m taking my six weeks off over Christmas, plus all the production work for books which will be releasing around this period. I haven’t really slowed down — I’m still sitting at the desk for nearly 10 hours a day.
Weekly Log – November 27 – Winding Down Read More »
I was going to explain how these work log posts are becoming increasingly inaccurate because I was writing further and further into the future with each day. As I write this paragraph, it is November 7th. I’m that far ahead of my blog posts–which is exactly what I am trying to achieve. I don’t want
Weekly Log – November 20 – Time Slip Read More »
I suspected this might happen. This is the second week of “doing nothing”. I’m actually doing a lot, but I’m not writing, as I achieved my huge writing goal two weeks ago–I’m free and clear until mid-January, when I returned to work on the next book. In the meantime, I’m catching up on production for
Weekly Log – November 13 – Life, and all that… Read More »
