Last week’s goals: Made my three blog posts on time, but fell backwatds on my blog commenting (it was one of those life happens things that pretty much crashed the week – big enough that I’m NOT going to feel guilty about failing to reach goals, which IS a big deal for me…) I had … Continue reading
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Writing Wednesday: Learning to be Interested
Last week’s progress: My blog postings and comments were done as required. I had another story return from market; I sent it back out in a day (Literarium really helps when it comes to finding markets. I still don’t know how to use the tool to keep track of my submissions, but I’m happy to … Continue reading
Writing Wednesday: Story Ideas
My report on last week’s goals: I posted my own blog on schedule, and exceeded my commenting on others’ blogs (not by much, but exceeding is still exceeding.) “Schizo the Magnificent” made it back out to market. While I was submitting it, I discovered that “Unaware” had been rejected by the same market (but they … Continue reading
Writing Wednesday: Starting Back Up, But If I Tell You…
Weekly Goals: I made my three blog posts, and managed to comment on a few blogs. No stories are currently waiting to be sent to market – just two waiting to return. I had planned for my next release to be October 25th, but in light of the fact that our house repair turmoil will … Continue reading
Writing Wednesday: Caring Ain’t Easy
Weekly Goals: I made my three blog posts last week, and completed my pitifully small number of comments on others’ blogs. “Schizo the Magnificent” remains the only story I currently have in search of a market (everything else has been ePubbed.) I have a short story in progress (the contest entry I’ve mentioned before – … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about Blogger’s Block
What to write about this time? For six years now, I’ve managed to drive my writing production – whether it’s short-fiction or blogging – by forcing myself to keep a schedule and a set of goals. In the case of my fiction, I set a number of stories to write each year. For my blog, … Continue reading
Writing Wednesday: Where Are Those Ideas?
Goals from last week: 3 blog posts. Stories cycled to market as soon as markets were available. My scheduled release of “There’s No Present Like the Time” went off – on schedule. Need to start planning for my next release (August 17th); it will probably be another short story. I wrote 1166 words while rewriting … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about the Quest for Something Completely Different
(apologies to Monty Python…) My significant one and I were flipping through our various cable and streaming services trying to find something new to watch. It’s hard to find new things (maybe that’s why we have FiOS and Netflix and Amazon and Hulu.) How many different CSI’s are there? And that’s just a particular brand … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about Keeping My Nose to the Grindstone
Is being a project manager good for me as a writer? As I’ve become more and more immersed in my role at my day job, I find my thoughts are becoming more ordered – less spontaneous. I have tended toward chaos when it comes to thinking, and I think it has served me well in … Continue reading
Face Friction Friday: Freedom from Forced “Friendliness”
The purpose of this blog is to have a “social” presence, and ultimately attract people to my stories, in the hopes that they might eventually drop a buck or two and read some. I started out ambitiously, thinking I would put up seven posts per week, but regained SOME sanity and reduced it to just … Continue reading
