Last Week’s Goals My Writing Wednesday and Fractured Fragment Friday posts went out on schedule, but Meandering Monday did not happen. Even though I “excused” that in this week’s Meandering Monday, it still counts as a fail. I had five more pieces returned from market submissions, all of which were back out in circulation in … Continue reading
I’m a great one for making lists – I’ve been this way for quite some time. I make lists of goals and projects, things that I plan to do. I probably spend too much time just making the lists. When I first started using a planner, I would make a list each night of the … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals My blog entries were posted on schedule. I sent another piece back to market within a day of its return. I wrote on seven days, and made my daily quota on five of them. I made my weekly 3,500 word quota with 3,560 words of fiction. The draft of Swordsmaster #3 has … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals The first official week of 2022 started well. Blog entries were posted on schedule. I returned three pieces back to market within a couple of days. I wrote on six days, and made my daily quota on five of them. I made my weekly quota just barely with 3,560 words of fiction. … Continue reading
(Funny how that works, isn’t it?) Last week was the final one of 2021, and so it’s time to wrap up my goal reporting for last year and publish my plans for the new year. Last Week’s Goals Blog entries were posted on schedule. All my available works remained out to market. I wrote on … Continue reading
And a Happy New Year to us all! I find myself thinking the same thing at the start of this year that I thought at the start of 2021: “Thank goodness the madness of Covid-19 and the rest is finally over and we can have a normal year.” I can tell already that this is … Continue reading
We only have a couple of days left in 2021. As I proselytize every year, it’s time for each of us to look at how our plans went for the year, and to plot out the commitments to ourselves for 2022 (AND publish them for others to see, because it’s easier to break promises to … Continue reading
I am not a purist. I’m willing to accept changes to a story I like when it moves to another format if those changes help with the translation. You see, moving a piece of literature to video is as much a form of translation as moving from one language to another.
There are things that work well in literature, but are very hard to do in film, such as showing what a character is thinking. At the same time, there are things that film is good at – showing and establishing settings, for one thing (a picture is worth a thousand words.) There is also the issue a film-maker needs to deal with of how to compress a huge story into something viewable. Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All blog entries were posted on schedule. All my submissions were returned to markets as soon as they arrived home. One of those “rejections” was my fifth Honorable Mention (this time a SILVER) from the Writers of te Future Contest for “The View from My Cage Is Breathtaking.” I wrote on … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All blog entries posted on schedule. All my shopped stories were returned to markets as soon as they arrived home. I wrote on five days and made my daily quota on three of those. I failed to make my weekly quota, with only 2,350 words of fiction (applied against Swordsmaster #3.) Of … Continue reading
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