Writing Wednesday: Don’t Get Depressed – Double Down

Problems again finding markets, but by and large keeping my stories circulating to various potential publishers. Plodding away at my blurb rewrites – hope to be done and updated by my August 25th deadline. Blog posts on schedule. Still reading my 5th of 6 books for this year, and my completed stories are still sitting … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Being a Dilettante

Running late today. This meandering comes from a place of discouragement. Bear with me. Last week I failed my “words-per-week” quota – there were things going on between work and personal life that made it difficult to engage with my writing (or even find 10 minutes to sit and stare at the computer.) I was … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: What Separates Writers and Readers…

Weekly goals made – three blog posts, market rotations are good (I’ve found a couple more markets to try, so that helps make up for the ones that have gone belly-up.) ePubs (modified by revamping the blurbs on all 80 of my ePubs) still on schedule (although I’m only about a quarter of the way … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: How Will I Remember It All?

Weekly goals just keep rolling along. Three blog posts, market rotations are good. ePubs (modified by revamping the blurbs on all 80 of my ePubs) still on schedule. I’m in the middle of Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – when I’m done I’ll need to read one more spec fiction novel. Wrote … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: You Have to Sell It

Goals are going pretty well – my story rotate back to market in 7 days or less,  ePublication every 4 weeks continued with “Baastards’ Revenge” last week. I put up my three blog posts. And I started reading my fifth book (Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.) I wrote 4,585 words, all of it … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Measuring My Work

Goals: Market rotations (every story back out to market within a week of returning to me) still keeping up, despite a dearth of markets (I need to revamp my list of markets.) I miss the days when Duotrope Digest was free – still not sure if it’s worth five dollars a month to have access … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Passion In, Passion Out

My goals march along… Blog posting, market recycling, and ePublishing schedules continue apace. I finished Alvin Journeyman, so that’s 4 of the 6 speculative fiction books I was supposed to read this year. I wrote 3026 words of fiction, so that’s three weeks in a row of making my weekly 3000 word quota. All of it … Continue reading →