I read an excellent post by the author Maggie Stiefvater titled The Giant Butt-Kicking How to Write a Novel Post. It boils down to this quote: “All of these questions are really one question: “How do I write a book?” And the answer, which I will explain in depth, is a simple two-parter: 1 – [...]
I’ve done pretty well in wordcounts this week, but not as good as I’d like. I’m having a hard time creating more writing time since I’ve been working late at the day-job. I plan to make up for it on the weekends, though. No reason I can’t get several thousand done then. I’m hitting the [...]
Many writer have rituals around where, when and how they do their writing. There is always the danger of becoming too attached to them, of course. If you have to sit in the blue chair with your coffee in the green mug in front of the poster of Hawaii (to remind you of what you [...]
I wrote over 1400 words yesterday! On a weeknight! Okay, it helped that the Kid was gone. But the biggest thing was that I was writing a huge, emotional, tension-filled scene that just flowed. I could’ve kept going to 2000 if I hadn’t had to sleep. We’ll see if I can get myself going to [...]
On the one hand, I didn’t write anything on Sunday or Monday. On the other, I did get something written on Friday and Saturday. Which is actually saying something, since I was staying with a friend Friday through Sunday. Thursday I gave myself off, since it was my birthday. Sunday and Monday are mostly explained [...]
Two years ago I had all sorts of assumptions about what I was capable of doing with my writing. I could never write more than a book a year, if I could even do that much. I couldn’t stick to an every day schedule, or hit certain word count goals. I couldn’t write action sequences. [...]
John Scalzi made a post lately where he talked about the speed of publishing. Or, to be more accurate, the lack thereof. Someone asked him why new novelists always seem to be in their thirties, instead of twenties like musicians and actors, and he decided to give a nice long answer which is very illumating [...]
Wrote 960 words yesterday! Yay me! I then wrote 230 words first thing this morning, and due to a software glitch, lost them. Grr. Thank goodness for automatic backups so I didn’t lose the whole chapter. I only had to remember and re-type the morning’s work. Which of course lost me the time to write [...]