OK I am setting writing goals for myself starting today. I’m going to make myself write 500 words of my short story before I get online. I’ve decided that I have two years of warning before my job goes away, and what if I try to position myself so that …
Why is it that whenever I am at my day job, I get all excited to work on the novel…and that excitement seems to be killed by the hour-long commute at the end of the day? I sometimes write at lunch, but the conditions around my coworkers aren’t conducive for …
“Writer’s block is a common malady. Most people (especially those who don’t write) don’t understand it. And many writers don’t understand it, either. If you understand how and why something works, you are halfway to solving your problem. So I propose now to remove the mystery surrounding writer’s block. Ready?
This week I’ve been revising and polishing another story. This one…well, I like a lot of the imagery in it, and generally speaking I like the plot, and I am in love with the setting (because hey, how often do you get to write a dark fantasy story set in …
It’s driving me crazy that I have done no submissions all summer. To do list: Finish the edits on The-novel-formerly-known-as-FTGGI. Find an agent to submit to. In the meantime find places to send “Inheritance” and “The Ruiner” and “A Delicate Balance” and the short story about Fin, the name of …
The biggest influence in making me a better writer has been finding people to partner with. I have a group of friends on LiveJournal who are all writers, and we formed a closed, friends-only community to share our work with each other, provide critiques, share inspiration, and challenge each other. …
From McGee-Cooper, as quoted in Time Management, Planning, and Prioritization for Librarians by Judith A. Siess: “The divergent mind is great at generating quantity [such as tasks], but it has a difficult time remembering what has been generated. It needs a system for seeing all of the tasks that have …
After a visit from author Colleen Coble at my library this weekend, I’ve joined American Christian Fiction Writers. Unfortunately the site doesn’t seem to be loading this morning, but I did get an email from them telling them my application had been accepted, so hopefully this week I’ll be spending …
My number one procrastination technique for anything is cleaning up my desk. I did that already. Last night I went through iTunes and deleted every song name that had been disconnected from the file. Because OMG I HAD TO DO IT RIGHT THEN OR THE WORLD WOULD EXPLODE!!! Tonight I …
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