Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: Untitled (seriously) Due Date: April 1st (seriously) Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 25,594 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 15 days Not quite a thousand words on the first day. Full disclosure though: This is an unofficial …
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Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: Untitled (seriously) Due Date: April 1st (seriously) Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 26,205 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 16 days This, for me, is the hardest part with a deadline approaching: Leaving the damn thing alone …
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Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: Untitled (seriously) Due Date: April 1st (seriously) Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 26,205 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 17 days Yes, you read that right. Nearly 5000 words in one day!!! That is both far from …
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Current Project: A short story for an anthology set in Faith Hunter’s Rogue Mage world. Title: Untitled (seriously) Due Date: April 1st (seriously) Upper Word Count limit: 8000 Words Word count to date: 21,525 Words (seriously) Days remaining: 18 days I am two days from the self-imposed deadline I had set for myself to have this …
I’d like to spend a little bit of time talking about getting organized. I know. “Organization” isn’t the sexiest word in the world, but, at least on some level, it’s a necessity. How about if we call it: Doing Battle with the Forces of Chaos!!! …
Impostor: imˈpästər – A person who pretends to be someone else in order to deceive others, especially for fraudulent gain. Tricksy, false… Fake. Sometimes I feel like this. Not when I’ve dragged myself out of bed at 5 in the morning, waiting for the coffee to start working. I feel it when I think about the good stuff: …
I’m going to start this post with a digression. I know, right? Anyway. This is not meant to be a “Poor me” kind of post. Part of what I’m doing here is documenting the weird, wild, world that is a writer’s life. End digression. On with the post… Here …
Every Sunday when I hit “Publish” to send another of these posts out there into the Interwebs, I think to myself: “Self –” (What? What else would I call myself…anyway) “Self, now that you’ve gotten another post up, you’ve got seven whole days to get to work on the next one. Hows about you spend …
Am I doing enough? I ask myself this question a lot. Particularly after weeks like this past one when the day-job is needier than usual and for a good chunk of the work week, I’m getting home from work (or getting off work) a few minutes before I’m supposed to go to bed… Well, it throws …
A couple of weeks ago, I came back from the Doctor’s office to report that I had a strained hamstring in my left leg. I don’t know how I did it. It came on gradually…well as gradually as something like this can sneak up on you. For those of you that have never had one, …