While I was at Worldcon more than one person asked how I managed to write so many books and so many words. So I thought I’d explain a bit of my process in greater detail for those of y’all who are interested. First of all, writing is my fulltime gig. That means I get three […]
One of the things that my husband and I frequently ask young writers when we start talking with them is whether they work better with carrots or sticks. It’s a basic question of motivation, and though it applies to all of your life and everything you do, figuring out what works for you for your
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I’ve been writing for a while. I’m currently writing my seventy-second (72) novel. I have some opinions about writing, the process and the craft. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to realize that there’s very little advice about writing that works for every writer. You really, REALLY need to listen to what your own writer brain tells
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I wrote 50K words during the month of October 2024. YAY! GO ME! The last time I managed that was October 2023. That was also the only month in 2023 that I wrote that much. The last year that I consistently wrote 50K per month was 2019. I’d really like to get back to that.
I haven’t talked about my writing much lately. (Then again, I haven’t been blogging regularly at all. I’m trying to change that, to start chatting with y’all again. Not going to guarantee a weekly basis, but that’s kind of what I’m shooting for.) I am still writing! Have been for much of the year. My
Earlier this week, Blaze and I went out to breakfast and started talking writing and publishing. I know, y’all are so surprised at that. In addition to talking over some of the things that we are planning on doing next year, we got onto the subject of craft. Blaze mentors a younger writer who’s just
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I figured I should post about how I’m doing on the writing front, specifically. I feel as though yesterday was a pretty typical day for me. I got to the computer by 9 AM, wrote 500 words of a Medium post in 30 minutes. On the one hand, that was awesome. It was a good
So….. This last week, I’ve been doing an unplanned writing marathon. It’s been fun. Particularly when what I really had thought would be a 40K novel turned out to be a 55K novel. A friend needed a novel for a project, in a hurry. It had to fit a particular theme. I didn’t have a
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Like a lot of you, I’ve been having difficulty focusing on the writing. Even when I’ve used enough discipline to get to the page, I still find the words aren’t flowing that well. However, I’ve noticed a pattern this last week with the current novel. Once I know what it is that I’m supposed to
Though I physically recovered from the plague a while ago, it took me an extra week to get my fiction brain back. I was writing non-fiction, and I did write the presentation that I am giving today. https://www.facebook.com/groups/171989563258/permalink/10158330796258259/ But the words weren’t easy. There is a definite difference between writing and the words flowing and