Last week I was working on two projects – and one hell of a procrastination issue. The first project was another short story I want to submit to an anthology, and the second was Ride the Rainbow revision (finally!). The procrastination is still plaguing me – hence writing a blog instead of revising… But I […]
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My productivity this weekend has been awful in comparison to what I wanted to get done. No one to blame but myself, as I have had zero external distractions. I am blaming the jet lag. There is, I feel, something about jet lag that seems to make you want to sit in front of the
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This year while I was on holiday (16 days) I read 12 books, toasted myself a golden brown and wrote 6000 words – I also did go sight seeing round Costa Rica, Colombia and Panama, I wasn’t totally a recluse, just mostly. I did some writing on the plane – this was a cramped, painful
This year I am getting all set for my upcoming holiday by looking out a new notebook and making sure I have everything I need in it so I can work on any short story ideas I have while I am away – no large targets or anything, just a few hundred words, or whatever
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Over the weekend I finished editing a story that I will be sending to an anthology, its with my beta readers now. It’s a rather scary wait to see if I hit any of the marks on the story that I was aiming for. Sending it away had been harder than I had thought it
There are a lot of options for bullet journals. A lot of ideas, and its very easy to just get lost inside the beautiful world of images and designs and forget what the purpose of your bullet journal was. I picked a pre-designed journal for my month/week spreads – which I both regret and am
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I have been working through Holly Lisle How to Write a Short Story course – I am on Lesson 4 now. The techniques she is demonstrating on how to generate ideas and then flesh them out is amazing. For anyone who has done this I was already kinda using a variation of the Muse in
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Second sight was the second short story I self-published. It is about a woman who can see the future but doesn’t want to. I am going back through this story now as I am looking at writing other short stories around Seers, maybe not in this world. If anyone wants to have a read it
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This weekend I finished the redraft of Ride the Rainbow. It’s a bit shorter than I would have wanted the redraft to come out – 48k – but revision will help me sort that. This story has been amazing fun to write 95% of the time. I have a lot of really great characters, and
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I have been doing a lot of reading in and around writers forums, and listening to https://www.alonewithinvisiblepeople.com/ podcast, and I have come across the concept of a Bullet Journal. The idea of this stuck with me. I have never done anything like a journal, or diary consistently so I almost dismissed the idea completed without
