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 writing is a good place to start.…
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.…
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 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.)…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
TLDR; made my word count for the month. Have averaged 50K per month, so 100K YTD.
Longer Version:
I stopped paying attention to my total word count for the month basically on the tenth or so. I was afraid that it would depress me too much.…