Last Week’s Goals All my blog posts went up on time last week, and all available stories are out to market. My September 2nd release date went by without a new release, as I explained last week. Still waiting for one of my two candidate stories to return from market. I wrote on five days, … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All my blog posts went up on time. One story returned from market and was sent back out. My normal decision process for deciding what my September 2nd release will be has failed me – the release will be delayed, as I will explain below. I wrote on six days, and made … Continue reading
I have a CONFESSION – I can’t stand looking stupid or inept in anything I do. So I hold back. I interrupt myself. I hesitate (& am therefore LOST.) I’ve struggled with this for …longer than many of you have been alive. Many times I have refrained from starting (or finishing) a project because the … 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
I hate it when TV show deaths feel like the resolution of a contract dispute, especially when I care about the character – it gives the death (in context of the story) a wasted feeling. The death should mean something to continuing a story instead of an ending. (To be fair to television and movie … Continue reading
Now that I have a method to my revisions – including a task list – I ALMOST feel like I’m accomplishing something, and this revising won’t be a forever thing. 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 All three blog posts went out as scheduled. I had another 2 stories return from market, and rotated them back out. I wrote on five days last week, and missed my daily quota on all of them. That means I also missed my weekly quota, with a pitiful 891 words of fiction. … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All three blog posts went out as scheduled. I had another 4 stories return from market, and they were sent back out to the next prospective publication. Ups and Downs: Detective Jimmy Delaney Collection #3 completed its release weekend. My next scheduled release is July 8th, and will probably be my third … 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
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