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
Last Week’s Goals My blog posts continued on schedule. Another two pieces came back from market and were turned around and resubmitted to other publications. I wrote on only five days and made my daily quota on only three of them. I missed my weekly quota with only 2,001. The draft of Swordsmaster #3 is … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All my posts went out on schedule. Two more pieces returned from market and were turned around and submitted to other publications. I wrote on seven days and made my daily quota on five of them. I made my weekly quota with 3,958 words. The draft of Swordsmaster #3 is over 28,000 … Continue reading
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
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
As a PANTSER especially, it helps to realize that every series you write – even every story – has its own rhythms and patterns. No matter how confused and in the dark you might feel at times, you will eventually get to your destination. Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals My blog entries were all posted on schedule, and all my available stories are circulating out in the traditional publisher markets. That includes “A Difficult Conversation” – my first COMPLETED short fiction for 2021 (that is the working title, but not the final one, which has been withheld from this post to … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals I made my blog posts as usual, and made my requisite comments. I continue to rotate stories through the available markets (do you think Heinlein would be proud of me?) My next scheduled release date was going to be November 13th, but it’s occurred to me that I have enough short fiction … Continue reading
Last week’s goals: Blog posts out on time, and the requisite post comments made (mine on others, not others on mine.) My stories that are available for publication continue to stay in circulation between markets. Here’s an embarrassing fail: I lost track of my next release date. It was planned for September 4th (which is … Continue reading
Last week’s goals: I posted my own blog on schedule, did some liking and a couple of comments on others’ blogs, but I need to try harder (and earlier) to be more active. All my available stories are currently circulating in the markets. I’m still not using Literarium definitely helps with finding appropriate markets for … Continue reading
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