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Am I Really Going To Write a Novel Every Two Weeks?
Got That Question Twice in Emails… The short answer… I think I will try the challenge. But I am turning 75 and I love the idea of publishing 75 major books (novels, collections, novellas) in my 75th year. (I don’t tend to write novellas, so it will be mostly novels and collections and anthologies/magazines. So if I started on a novel every two weeks, I would write 26 if I hit it, but only publish 22 or 23 due to the time lag between finishing and publishing. A long way from 75… So for years now I have wanted to do a series of collections to get all my short…
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Limits in Writing and Publishing…
Everyone Sets Their Own Limits… Actually not completely true. Everyone’s limits are set by what they learned from others, mostly non-writers spouting myths they learned at some point. And there are major myths that most writers never get past. — Writing Fast Is Writing Poorly — Everything Must Be Rewritten — Everything Must Be Perfect Before Publishing These myths and so many more are what limits each writer. And the myths were encouraged by agents who were never writers and also traditional publishing that could only handle so many books from a writer, usually just one per year. And the fear of what others will think stops millions of writers…
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Quick Post… Having Site Issues…
Want to get this here… Went to an Aces’ Game tonight. Their 8th win in a row. Five teams a half game apart from 2nd to 6th. Going to be a wild end of the season. Remember the Adult Back To School sale has started. See yesterdays’ post. Now to see if this will post and keep my streak and challenge alive.
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A No-Nothing Night…
Almost Forgot To Do This Blog… Got to keep the streak going for some reason or another. I was working on different workshops tonight, plus some Kickstarter work, and just spaced this along the way. Workshops I am working on are Promotion (nine weeks on Teachable) and another on “Clearing Your Mind of Can’t.” Also putting up some Advanced Craft classes and Regular workshops. All starting first of September. So stay tuned. And Kris took a great photo of me slouched in my big chair, watching the end of the Raiders Game, with a beautiful white cat asleep holding onto my stomach. Was going to put it up but my…
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Got Writing and Almost Forgot This Blog…
Sad to Blow The Streak This Close… Started this nightly blog streak on August 1st, 2012. Have not missed a blog yet… So 11 days from 13 years. Not one clue how I have managed that. Tonight got buried in a story, shut off stuff to go to bed and then remembered I needed to do this. So keeping the streak alive one more day. Onward for 11 more days and then after that I hope to just keep going. Wow has publishing and the world changed in those 13 years. Just wow.
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Word Count Dropped Under Pulp Speed One…
Four Difficult Months in a Row… I know that happens, but now we shall see what I can do for the last six months of the year. But going to take a climb to get back over Pulp Two (1.2 million consumable words in a year.) I keep my running monthly word count on the right of this blog. Math is my friend. I need about 720,000 words in six months. Or about 120,000 words a month. About 4,000 words a day roughly, so about 3.5 to 4 hours a day. Yup, I can do that. Hope everyone is doing well on their yearly challenges or their reset challenges. And…
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Some Hints on the Super Great Challenges
THESE HINTS CAN APPLY CHALLENGE OR NOT… Those of you who are thinking of going for the $10,000 Lifetime Everything Subscription by having a fantastic year writing and publishing, or those of you who are just wanting to streamline a fantastic year writing, let me give you some hints to help out. Hint #1… Plan your writing hours to be as consistent as possible each week. Set a time each day and hit it. Hint #2… If you need 5,000 words a week, plan to do 7,500 words. You can always use the extra words the following week. But if you only plan exactly what you need and things miss…
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Update on Challenge
STILL GOING… I have no intention of tossing in the towel on this one even though March and April were tough and I didn’t get that many stories done. My pattern over the years is that I always have troubles in March and April and then ramp back up solidly in May and while most writers are lost in The Time of Great Forgetting, I am writing at full speed or better. I’m going to need a bunch of two-story days to get back on track, and I can do that over the next five months without too much of a problem. (Got it planned out.) And my most productive…
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Quick Update on Challenge at Day 100
Not As Good As Last Time… But last time I hung it up, this time I am making plans for the next 100 days of short story writing. Yes, I am behind some stories, but honestly, the insanity of the last three months, it feels great to have gotten done what I did So firing onward. I hope in the next 100 days to find the time to fire back up Smith’s Monthly in some way or another. At this point I might just make it a short story and collections magazine for a time, I sure got enough. (grin) So stay tuned as I ramp back up and work…
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Read a Great SF Novella By Kris…
Did a Bunch of Other Stuff… But mostly just enjoyed the read and took the night mostly off. I will do an update on the ups and downs of my challenge in the next day or so. Plus a number of other topics I want to talk about. So stay turned. Now going to go watch television… And this post serves to keep my blog challenge going. I started this daily blog challenge on August 1st, 2012 and have not missed a night for 12 years and 8 months and 11 days. 4,362 days without missing. That is just nuts, but sometimes I do nothing blogs like tonight to just…