Last Week’s Goals All my blog posts went up as scheduled. One story returned from market and was sent back out. I still haven’t found someplace new to send the orphaned story from the week before. (It’s flash, which limits markets, and has been to a ton of them. If it wasn’t a flash story … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All my blog posts went up on time (but then I had t make a correction on one of them, so I pulled it for a few hours. Life.) Three stories returned from market – two sent back out, but having trouble finding somewhere to send the third. My next scheduled release … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals My three posts went out as scheduled. I had a couple more stories return from publishers, and those went out to market once again. Cats of War III (the third Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire collection) continues its reduced price preorder (and Smashwords FREE Presale) campaign until its July 8th release … Continue reading
The overall feeling my work on the sequel gives me seems artificial in comparison to the organic original. I find myself experimenting with other people’s methods, just to shake things up. Still, I am incapable (or is it unwilling?) to fully implement the ideas I come across, and even when I think I understand the gist of a method, I still PANTSER it, close my eyes, and feel my own way toward what I think they mean. Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals My three blog entries posted on schedule usual. Two submissions returned from market and I sent them right back out. Heinlein would be so proud… I now have a little over two weeks to go before my next scheduled release day (May 13th), but I still haven’t decided what it will be. … Continue reading
As I’ve been studying recently, I’ve found a lot of ideas to think about and look for in my own stories, but I haven’t found anyone else’s method that I can duplicate. I find myself taking those alien methods apart and cobbling bits and pieces into my revision process, and that hopefully makes my finished stories better. Continue reading
I’m a PANTSER, but I can still learn from PLOTTERS (there is a PANTSER/PLOTTER SPECTRUM, like with autism), and most of us slide between the two, depending on where we are in our personal method on a given project. So I attend summits when they seem interesting. Continue reading
I’m a PANTSER (a discovery writer for those of you who are uninitiated); the words pour out, and I make adjustments after the draft comes out. Despite the fact that most aptitude and personality tests (such as Strengthsfinder) say I’m highly analytical, I seem to have a block when it comes to applying analysis to my writing. I can FEEL whether something works, but it’s difficult (to say the least) to apply other people’s rules to my stories. Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals My blog posts made it out on schedule, and I didn’t have any stories return from market, so they’re all out there as they should be. My next scheduled release day is March 18th. The story will be “Getting Personal”, which I have barely started to prepare for publication. I still need … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All my posts went out on schedule. Two more pieces returned from market and were turned around and submitted to other publications. I wrote on seven days and made my daily quota on five of them. I made my weekly quota with 3,958 words. The draft of Swordsmaster #3 is over 28,000 … Continue reading
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