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: Overthinking, Overcooking, and Over-Planning, Oh My!

GOALS from last week: 3 blog posts. Stories cycling back to market on schedule as best I can (flash fiction is still a problem.) I was able to prep and ePub “Interview with the Blue Neon God” in less than two days and made the release date. I was marginally social last week in my … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Character Interviews Help Fill Gaps

Goals from last week: Still on schedule with three blog posts, and back-to-market rotations on returned stories. Only 518 words of fiction – the usual productivity shutdown that occurs with the holidays (coupled with the tedious nature of revising Swordsmaster) resulted in a very disappointing week of writing, despite putting time in on five separate … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: The Short and the Longer of It

My weekly goals update: I made my three blog posts, 10-day turnaround to markets still on track, and ePublications for the year were on schedule (the preorder campaign for “Sleep with the Snowmen” ends on its release this Friday – time to plan next year’s first ePub.) I still have to do the final revision … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Why Set Goals?

First, my weekly update. My goals march on… Three blog posts, 10-day turnaround to markets on track, and ePublication on schedule. Last week I wrote 4513(!) words of fiction, which actually pulled my weekly average for this year to the best I’ve had since I started tracking it. Most of it was because “Date Night” … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about the Year-End Wrap-Up

Bill, what do you mean, year-end? There’s still almost forty-nine days left – why should I be thinking about the end of year? I’ll blame part of it on the place where I work. Last Friday was the day I had to turn in my evaluation of how my year went (including a projection of … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Life in the Holiday Lane

(Cue The Eagles “Life in the Fast Lane”) (No, wait – don’t – too hectic and depressing. How about “Let it Snow”? Yeah, that’s the ticket…) Here we are in the last quarter of the year, and like it does so often, everything feels like it’s come to a standstill. It’s like being in bumper-to-bumper … Continue reading →