Today was awesome and productive for me. I hope your day was just as good! I slept in a bit, got up at 9am. I showered and made coffee. Then I went and played on the internet a little, checking messages and reading email. By about 11am I was already cracking in on the story, …
Today and yesterday were serious tests of the whole \”Coffee Break Novelist\” theory of writing. When I wrote that book, the tl;dr of the idea (although of course I think it IS worth reading!) was that writing ISN\’T something that requires huge blocks of time to accomplish. You can slip bits of writing in between …
Day 4 was one of those days that was all about \”writing the novel you want in the time you have\”, folks. Today I really WAS a \”Coffee Break Novelist\”. I was up a few minutes after 6am. Got dressed, made coffee, grabbed a Kind bar and was off to work. At work at 7am, …
Theme music for the day: Avatar (go James Horner!) Word count for today: 6370 words in roughly three hours of typing (not including breaks between sprints). No dictation today. I didn\’t really get going until almost 11, and then spent several hours doing sprint – break – sprint – break. The trick, of course, is …
Today began with a long series of frustrations. I\’m trying to learn to use Dragon Dictate (for Mac) as I go here. My words per hour (WPH) on Dragon have only been about 1400-1600 so far, or about 450-550 words per 20 minute sprint. Those are CLEAN words though – I have been dictating into …
I knew today was going to be a slow start, and – no shock – it was. I\’ve only finished 2000 words so far today. Mondays are my \”kids day\” – the day my children and I spend hanging out and having fun. Today consisted of: going with the kids to look at my new …
Every December for a few years now I\’ve done a post looking back at last year\’s goals, and how well I did in achieving them. Then I set out a new set of goals for the coming year. Over the years I\’ve done this, those goals have changed some. They\’ve been shaped by my experiences, …
I saw an interesting article today, and it inspired a few thoughts of my own. Kris Rusch wrote a blog article in her Business Musings series. She put those essays out weekly, each a commentary of some sort about the business of writing. This one was called \”Whining\”. It\’s totally worth reading, but here\’s the TL;DR …
For me, 2014 was a banner writing year. I managed about 150,000 words over the course of the year. Most of that was in my King of the Dead serial – which has been releasing steadily over the last couple of months. Episodes 5-7 are ready to go, and Episode 8 is almost there too, …
January was a good month. I set the goal at the beginning of the year to produce 500 words of fiction – minimum – every day this year. The idea is to not miss even a single day. I can go over, but not under. At the end of the year, I\’d have a minimum …
