• Challenge,  On Writing

    What Is Prolific?

    Got That Question a Number of Times… Mostly because of my Pulp Speed post and then the post about systems slowing a writer down. My answer the question “What is prolific?” is always “It depends.” Pulp Speed of any level if you are turning the words into books and stories and getting them out on the market would be prolific. Especially if done every year. If your goal is to just write a few books before you move on, 50,000 words a year would be fast enough for you, but no one would ever call you prolific. Writers who tend to be called prolific after a few years are writers…

  • Challenge,  On Writing

    An Adventure In My Own Fiction…

    Being Prolific… This is kind of sad, actually. I have a clear memory of writing a story. Not sure if it became part of a novel or not, not 100 % sure of what series it was in. But I remember writing the story. And I wanted that story for a specific reason tonight. Yes, I have spreadsheets full of stories and all my indie published novels are out in different places. But spread sheets just give me titles and series and such. And just for Smith’s Monthly alone, there are almost 300 stories on that spread sheet. And I have a lot of unpublished short stories that got delayed…