It’s October 25th, 2015. Week forty two (best week!) of writing 1,000 words per day of fiction. It’s time for another update!
Days 291 through 296 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written.
Stats for Days 291 to 296: Continue reading
It became Thursday when I wasn’t looking, and I’m so confused that I will destroy it before I understand it. There is no room for change in my domain. Let it be Wednesday forever.
Or, fine, we can do the next Weekly Motivational.
I’ve talked a lot about a few dozen reasons or excuses that can crop up and prevent a person writing on a given day. I’ve talked about inspiration. I’ve made silly jokes and drawn wild correlations between things that I probably should not have.
So I’m going to go a bit broad this week and tell myself to just shut the hell up. Continue reading
It’s October 18th, 2015. Week forty one of writing 1,000 words per day of fiction. It’s time for another update!
Days 284 through 290 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written.
Stats for Days 284 to 290: Continue reading
It’s Thursday! Run for the hills! You can never hope to escape the Fires of Inspiration, the Fleeting Muse, the Wave of Desperate Hurry. But you can damn sure try.
It’s time for another Weekly Motivational!
Given that I am writing a thousand words a day at a minimum, I can find myself hurrying along, writing the same or similar words over and over again in short succession. I talked a bit about the power of repetition a couple weeks back, so now I’m tackling a related topic: Using Imprecise Language Creates Imprecise Emotions.
Or as I like to call it, The Sometimes Anytime. Continue reading
It’s October 11th, 2015. Week forty of writing 1,000 words per day of fiction. It’s time for another update!
Days 277 through 283 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written.
Stats for Days 270 to 276: Continue reading
It’s Thursday, and as we all know by now, Thursdays are the best days. Why are they best? It’s best not to question them. They get cranky. And rumor has it someone gave them the launch codes.
Thursdays are for the Weekly Motivational!
Last week I talked and talked and talked and talked about repetition and how it can be useful in your writing. Last week I talked and talked and –
Sorry. Recalibrating.
Sometimes you get very busy, and the things you thought you had time for in your professional life start to stack up and tower over you like a stack of items that can be stacked taller than you. Continue reading
It’s October 4th, 2015. Week thirty nine of writing 1,000 words per day of fiction. It’s time for another update!
Days 270 through 276 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written.
Stats for Days 270 to 276: Continue reading
It’s Thursday and that means I look into the future at a more successful me and report back to the present me on what I will have done to get where I will be.
Also known as the Weekly Motivational!
This week it’s not about keeping myself inspired or motivated to write; it’s about a handy little tool in your writer’s toolbelt that I like to call the Repetition Recitation.
Just what is the Repetition Recitation, you ask? Well, the Repetition Recitation is a narrative device by which you ascribe importance to a person or thing by referencing it multiple times in a short timeframe. Continue reading
It’s September 27th, 2015. Week thirty eight of writing 1,000 words per day of fiction. It’s time for another update!
Days 263 through 269 have been successes, with a minimum of 1,000 words per day written.
Stats for Days 263 to 269: Continue reading
It’s the last week of September and this is the unbiased best month of the year! I use the last motivational post of the month to talk about and somewhat review a piece of media that has touched me and inspired me in some way. I’ve talked about movies, TV shows, books, and anime. I thought maybe I’d go a little outside the usual fare and into comic book land.
I have never been a big comics reader, mostly because comics have a way of being ridiculous and bad, especially the perpetually ongoing superhero series that are still in abundance to this day.
But there are gems out there, special comics that I have read over the years that are transcendent of the medium. I’m going to talk about Alias today, which is maybe jumping the gun just a little bit since the Netflix TV show centered around Jessica Jones isn’t coming out until November.
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