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
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Writing Wednesday: Unplanned Surprises
Last week’s goals: 3 blog posts. Stories cycled to market as soon as markets were available (I only have four currently in rotation.) Commenting in other folks blogs just enough. I made my quota with 3090 words of fiction, and still wrote some every day. Herc Tom #7 (still no title yet) sits at around … Continue reading
Writing Wednesday: Outlines Aren’t Everything
Weekly goals report: 3 blog posts. Stories cycled to market as soon as markets were available (I only have four currently in rotation.) Still sufficiently active in comments and likes on other peoples’ blogs. I wrote only 1,106 words – disappointing. The good news is, I did finally write SOME every day of the week, … Continue reading
Writing Wednesday: Cats and More Cats
Last week’s goals: 3 blog posts. Stories cycled to market as soon as markets were available. I posted the requisite number of comments on other peoples’ blogs. I’m embarrassed to report that I let my next scheduled release date sneak up on me. I was supposed to publish something on the 21st, and I don’t … Continue reading
Writing Wednesday: Getting Into a Rhythm
Report on last week’s goals: 3 blog posts. Stories cycled to market as soon as markets were available. I posted the requisite number of comments on other peoples’ blogs. I wrote 1,625 words, the total again suffering from NOT writing every day (I wrote four days only.) “Cats Out of the Bag” (Cat #6 now … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about Diverse Deviation
We’re all different; we’re supposed to be – we’re individuals, not ants. I hope I’m not offending the ants – To be honest, I/we don’t know how individual ants are. There’s probably as much differentiation between individual ants as there is between humans, but they live in a far more regimented society than humans do … Continue reading
Writing Wednesday: The Devil with the Details
Goals watchlist: 3 blog posts. Stories cycled to market as soon as markets were available. “The Voices” eBook released on time last week. I made comments the requisite number of blogs (just barely.) I wrote a piddling 993 words on Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire #6 (yes, still with no title – I like to … Continue reading
