Warning: As today’s post title might have warned you, this post will involve some language. It’s time for some tough love, and writer’s block is bullshit. I’ve been a lazy writer. When I look at my writing plan for this summer, I should have Shades of Circle City with beta-readers and…
I‘ve written about the Monthly Twitter Writing Challenge before. It’s an amazing community of writers that has grown up around YA author Kristy Acevedo’s challenge to write 500 words or edit for 1 hour each day. People write in all genres, from memoir to historical to fantasy & science fiction. The…
Everyone has seen the advice that writers should write every day. I’ve never believed that taking a day off here and there is as much of a sin as a lot writers seem to think. But then again, I’ve also never been as productive (or as published) as those writers who…
I am far from the most disciplined person I know. Two of my writer friends looked at my 2014 writing plan and made noises like they were impressed. It was tempting to pretend I’ve got it all together, but since both of those writer friends are selling more stuff than…
Yesterday I worked on my 2014 Writing Plan. Today I’m exhausted and exhilarated at the same time. I have some ambitious plans for the upcoming 365 days. Honestly I’ll be happy if I accomplish half of them. But I really want to meet all of these goals and more. I…
I’m currently in a position where there’s no work to be done on the novel I’ve been polishing for the past year. Waiting to hear from others who have to read a lot of words first, so what do I do in the meantime? For one thing, I’m catching up…
Today’s a snow day. We got 5 inches overnight, and I cancelled my plans for today, because the county doesn’t bother plowing our roads, so I’ll be lucky to make it to my doctor appointment tomorrow, let alone get out today. I spent the morning on sorting through old files…
August 2012 – Finish The Loyalty Factor revision. – Finish “Blue Watch” or “Long Way Home.” – Identify markets for short story. September 2012 – Write a short story set in Teronn. – Begin querying agents about The Loyalty Factor. – Submit finished short story. October 2012 – Continue querying…
Because I have become obsessed with the time-management side of writing, I printed out a calendar of July and marked the days I didn’t write. I wanted to see if there was a pattern. And I discovered there’s a pretty obvious pattern.
I’m a member of the inkingitout community, where we check in on a regular basis with the amount of words we’ve written. There are great conversation starters posted at the journal as well, and recent questions have been about the timing of our writing. Do we write on a daily…
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