760 new words today. Was also productive on CritiqueCircle, receiving crits, giving two crits, submitting the last chunk of MH part 1, forum posting, etc. The words I wrote may get cut. They ballooned into an unexpected action sequence that I’m only lukewarm about (but don’t hate). We shall see! […]
2,600 new words today, in something like three hours. Cooking fast, because the story’s back and I know where to drive it and am having fun and/or am interested in the scenes. Sehr gut! Not much else to report without being terribly mundane. I’ve a lot of operational stuff to […]
In August, over 31 days, I wrote new 22,240 words. I also: wrote three critiques, participated in three online writing communities, edited a lot of my own stuff, commissioned cover art, sent work out to beta readers, set up Mailchimp for eventual email lists, wrote 31 blog posts, and began […]
Momentum carries with 1,017 new words! Also did up the first monthly progress blog (another 1,400 words)! Now it is soon time for down-time. I am behind on many little operational things, as my Asana task list dutifully reminds me, but it was more important to me to knock down […]
Finally, cracked down, sat down, and wrote 4,300 new words. I think that’s my second highest daily since starting to track again, maybe 4th place overall (lifetime). All I needed was motivation and an entire afternoon to myself. The window of non-interrupted time is a somewhat obvious requirement, and tough […]
I’m happy that drunk-me from the last entry allowed 72 hours for the completion of the monthly roundup task. I could do it now, but I am sleepy after a day of watching an airshow from a rooftop and playing all sorts of games (card, video, board) in good company. […]
Today a coworker brought his delicious, home brewed dark IPA into the office. It was the eve of a long weekend. I slugged it back and discussed deep Game of Thrones’ theories. Needless to say, this was counterproductive as far as writing goes. Being a long weekend, I should have […]
Sometimes the cure is to sit down and power through, sometimes you have to stand still and reorient. Today I wrote no new words, but I did hammer out some 1,300 words of an outline that totally redrafts the HUNTING MIDNIGHT episode that I’d lost steam on. And now I […]
Thinking more and more on the serial structure. “Give ‘em what they expect, but different!” — That old paradoxical entertainment rule is ringing in my ears. I feel like I need to revamp my approach to MIDNIGHT ep 3 and possibly resign to keeping CHILDSEEKER as a whole part (and […]
400 new words + a ton of little things. Warning, big and semi-disjointed entry ahead. Despite the lazy day yesterday, reading helped re-expose my brain to the third omniscient POV. I’ve been courting third limited and first for so long now that it was healthy to see the merits of […]
