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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 22,197 / 481,4921,700-words of admin + 5 projects. This week saw a lot of words into the counter, but 15k of those were into something super easy that I wasn’t supposed to be writing. (oops!) The funniest part about that, is that those words will likely never see the light of day (without EXTREME reediting-
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 15,336 / 459,295747-words of admin + 7 projects. This week was rough. I don’t even have an explanation for it. I just didn’t get much done.In an odd twist, the usual rule of: more projects = more words didn’t hold true this week. My brain was apparently scattered, but not in an “at least I’m productive”
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 18,512 / 443,959596-words of admin + 4 projects. I have a few drafts that are lining up like dominoes, and another one fell this week. Finishing a draft is both exciting and distracting. For me, that means my brain wanders off, thinking about the fun thing I could put in its previously scheduled time slot.
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 10,191 / 425,447598-words of admin + 4 projects. Along with plugging away toward my next deadline, I managed to finish up two drafts and filed those away for the next stage of their lives.The “end of life” stage of drafting is always slower than just starting out. Mostly because early drafting is a place you
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 26,476 / 415,256664-words of admin + 4 projects. Half of this week’s w/c was put in by outlining a future series. Four books fully outlined, one is only half done 13 in the books. The rest was divided between editing input (necessitating 2 additional chapters drafted into this version) and some slow-write
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 18,263 / 388,780578-words of admin + 3 projects. As always, my word count is lower when I have fewer projects. Less one project, less ~4k. This week’s count wasn’t helped by the fact I had a tattoo appointment on Friday and tattoos and word counts don’t mix. It’s the wrong combo of brain chemicals. Also, the
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 22,532 / 370,517319-words of admin + 4 projects. This word count brought to you by week two of fast drafting a book. The fast track approach means lots of words, and lots of future edits. Which is sometimes (definitely in this book’s case) the better option.Monthly word counts passed this week: 2018, 2014,
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 23,033 / 347,985132-words of admin + 5 projects. My determination to kill July seems to be going well… If I can keep up this pace, I’ll be able to hit (if not pass) my highest June count in recorded history. I have two upcoming tattoo appointments, so those Fridays are going to be low on the w/c, unless
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 7,745 / 324,952997-words of admin + 4 projects. The last few days of June were alright, but I’m blowing into July like my life depends on these word counts, and that’s making me happy. I’ve written more in these first two days of July than I did the final four days of last month. Fingers crossed I can keep
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 11,484 / 315,559288-words of admin + 3 projects. I’d say I’m back to my normal flitting through projects, but if I actually look at the individual totals, instead of the project count, I threw ~1.5k into the project I finished over the weekend and ~1k into a book that’s mid edit just to clear my head out
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 16,054 / 304,075638-words of admin + 1 projects. This week’s round of rewrites went remarkably well. I cannot remember the last time I managed to get that many words into one project without flitting about five others as well. I’m not on track to make this my best June ever, but that’s okay. I’ve managed to
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 12,856 / 288,021109-words of admin + 3 projects. Displaying an uncharacteristic amount of focus (Let’s be real, inputting changes and rewrites as I edit gives me a clear road map and I just followed it), I managed to throw almost 10k of those words into a single project. *snaps party hat elastic under chin*I
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Blog postBLACK LIVES MATTER.I believe this to be an undeniable truth.BLACK LIVES MATTER.I, as a person raised within a sphere of privilege, misinformation, and willful descrimination, have to accept my complicitness in our country where people will hear those three words and feel the need to argue.BLACK LIVES MATTER.We need to fight anyone who says otherwise, in real life, and through fiction. Because
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 15,632 / 275,165140-words of admin + 4 projects. As you may notice from the bar graphic… two of those four projects were tiny little adders to the two projects that I put ~8 & 6K into. Junes of the past were apparently completely TERRIBLE. I cannot figure out why I wrote so little in June of 2019, but I
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 6,689 / 258,496231-words of admin + 3 projects. So, because these counts are totalled from Friday to Thursday, and because I started memorial day weekend out by spending all day having my leg tattooed, the first 4 days of word counts for this progress report are a string of zeros. It’s really weird working on
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 13,671 / 251,8071,033-words of admin + 4 projects. I am so close to being done with two projects. One is the “short story” that has run away with itself, the other is a novella for a different pen name. They are both going to need a decent amount of work on the back end (as always), so “done” is never
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 30,501 / 238,126337-words of admin + 4 projects. This week was some 2013-level writing.If you follow me on instagram, you may have seen my story asking if I should keep cleaning up the mess from that edit? Or if I should write a 7k-word story on saturday…. Just over 20k of the words this week are in that
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.I was the kind of sick yesterday (and still am today) where it might be an ear infection? Or it might just be the crushing weight of apathy and stress….I’m assuming it’s the former because my ears feel full and I’m easily dizzy/am more prone to losing my balance than normal. Considering the latter because I’m not in any pain, nor do
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.Words written (week/YTD): 12,848 / 195,127330-words of admin + 5 projects. I was on furlough from the day job this week (possibly my last? Not sure.) and so I had all week to do the full-time author thing. (Do I have to go back?). My dogs seem happier.Two of the days this week were no-writing days that were consumed by edits, and
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.March felt like three years. Here we are, almost out of april, and I feel like it’s gone by in a literal blink. I cannot tell you how often the words “time is stupid” tumble out of my mouth. Words written (week/YTD): 7,354 / 182,279229 words of admin + 1 projects. Let this week’s numbers be further proof that fewer projects equals
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Blog postI’ve seen a lot of posts about how to make maps of your fantasy worlds.And I thought I'd share mine with you.Because this is a long-ish process, I'm breaking it up into four easy to follow parts over the next weeks.Having a map of your own world can be useful when plotting quests, or just figuring out how things relate to each other spatially.The maps I've created are almost exclusively for my
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.A lot of non-writing activity this week. Means a low word count, and a lot of progress that isn’t visible on “paper”.Words written (week/YTD): 8,046 / 174,925325 words of admin + 3 projects. It never fails: The fewer projects I work on in a week, the lower my w/c is. My brain needs constant flitting. It is a humming bird, and my
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.I try to drop an interesting fact on my coworker every day and today’s was something I semi-suddenly remembered from Rainbow Brite’s San Diego Zoo Adventure. What the heck was that even?Words written (week/YTD): 10,685 / 166,879145 words of admin + 4 projects. No time off this week, so the count was pretty normal compared to other
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Blog postIt’s Friday, time to look at what we’ve done for the last week.No April Fools, just April fun. Kinda. I put Slow Burn Dark out over the weekend, and have once again proven to myself that I’m not great at marketing, but… we’re working on that.Words written (week/YTD): 16,590 / 146,171652 words of admin + 4 projects. I had some time off, so I did both more, and less writing. More during traditional
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Blog postWe’re officially in the last for-sure nice month here in Phoenix, as far as temperature goes. Next month might be great, but it also might be rubbish. Meteorology is a pseudoscience, and there’s really no telling what May will give us.This year, that almost doesn’t matter. Normally, I’d be trying to get myself ready for the air-conditioning-all-the-time months to come, by spending as much time
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