Also known as \”The writing advice I wish I\’d had in 2011.\” I ran into someone on a Facebook group today, asking for help. This person had a bunch of books out, and none of them were selling. I went and analyzed the writer\’s work, and recognized a familiar set of problems. The writer was …
Happy Thanksgiving, for all you folks in the US! Hope the rest of you are having a grand day, too. Thursday is usually a 16 hour work day for me, but – I got half a day off, for the holiday. I got up at a decent hour and got a thousand words in on …
Crazy busy day today. Still got the writing in! Woke up and got rolling a little later than I would have liked. Woke up, checked email, sort of played on the internet for a little bit. Grabbed some food. And then plowed into my housework. I\’m moving to a somewhat smaller apartment, you see. So …
LOONG work day today. Very tired. In work from 7am till 11:30pm, and then home. Very, very tired. No writing done, but then that was more or less expected. 😉 Off to sleep now! Fiction words for the day: 0 Fiction words for November: 25,300 (10600 into the 4th episode) Blog …
Today was a decent writing day. Up and moving by around 9am, and after some light breakfast and coffee, checked emails, and generally relaxed for a while. Ate lunch, and then put in about 1000 words. So not the most productive morning, but the afternoon started off well. Had an appointment in the afternoon, and …
My peak writing days give me 20-25 thousand words of fiction. I can kick out five thousand or more words in a day without really breaking a sweat. I’ve also found that the parts of my books where I wrote more words per day are cleaner, clearer, require less revision and get less critique from …
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My peak writing days give me 20-25 thousand words of fiction. I can kick out five thousand or more words in a day without really breaking a sweat. I’ve also found that the parts of my books where I wrote more words per day are cleaner, clearer, require less revision and get less critique from …
Accountability Aids: Accountability is important in habit building. We use accountability aids as a tool for fostering the sorts of behavior we are trying to generate in our lives – whether that is kicking a bad habit, or building a new one. NaNoWriMo is essentially a big month long accountability aid, as we\’re guilted into …
One challenge in fantasy writing is the craft of designing a magic system that makes sense – that\’s believable for the reader – but which is flexible enough that you can continue to toss out new curves over the course of a series. Often, writers will fall back on some set of tropes that they\’re …
There\’s a few key things you MUST HAVE to sell your book, based on my research of the marketplace and careful chatting with other writers. 1. You must have a great cover. Your readers will be scanning a page full of twenty or so little postage stamp size books. They will then click \”next page\” …
