Procrastination methods, as well as complaints about how I’ve been procrastinating. Read at your own risk.
You’ve heard the advice. Set goals. Write them down. Post them somewhere. Sometimes the advisor will expand it with “make tangible goals” or “set goals, and then establish smaller steps to reach them.” And often there’s “set goals you can control.” You can’t make yourself write a bestseller. You can make yourself write book after […]
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Writing used to be almost completely instinctual for me. If you ever read the first draft of my first completed novel, you would see that pretty plainly. It’s pure kitchen-sink plotting: Every time the story slowed down, I threw in another attack or explosion, and made sense of them later. Years later when I wrote
Why I Needed Fast Draft Like A Glass of Water on a Ship in the Pacific Read More »
So today starts the Fast Draft class with Candace Havens. I’m getting myself ready–drinking coffee, listening to Eye of the Tiger, taking deep breaths. Now to just get moving.
Fast Draft, AAAHHHH!! Read More »
I don’t wait well. Possibly I should qualify that. If I’m in a waiting room? I’m fine. I’ve got my book, I’m good, just be loud when you call my name. On hold? I’m all right. You’ve probably got ten, maybe even fifteen minutes before I start getting annoyed. (Less if you have some perky
Impatience Has Its Good Points Read More »
I’m 42 years old and I have a problem. Time just…slips away from me. I’ll sit down at my computer meaning to get some writing done, and hours later there are still no words and I don’t really know why. When kids come to school late and tell me they overslept but they don’t know
Avengers is SO FREAKING GOOD. It’s two hours and twenty minutes long. Felt like about five, except I didn’t feel like there was much if anything missing, either… We’re going to go see it again. Tomorrow if I get off work early enough. Saturday if I’m working full days. But we ARE going to see
Distractions Abound Read More »
I’m trying to find some balance in my life. I’ve always chased after whatever I was interested in at the time, to the exclusion of other things. When I fell into Weiss fandom (my first forays into slash, ahh, nostalgia…), I stalked eBay for everything Weiss. Art books, DVDs, concert videos…I got ’em all. I