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Changing My Challenge!!
Yes, Only One Week In… Amazing how starting a challenge can bring up reality and things a person had never thought of. A tiny bit of back story. Last three years have been just flat pressure every day, from losing my sight three years ago, to business sstuff, to the fall and surgery and PT at the same time stunningly awful business problems were discovered and now the last two years of putting things back together and attorneys, lots of attorneys. Kris and I, with the stunning help of Chris York and Stephanie Writt, put it all back together and better. And now Steph has moved on to different pastures…
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Update on Challenge…
Novel Writing Off To a Slow Start… Totally expected.No surprise at all. Working on a Thunder Mountain novel titled CASCADE MEADOWS. A few of you from Idaho might actually know where that is at. I will have a cover for it after a time that I will share here. Last night I did the cover for my first ten-story collection, which will be part of a really fun Wee Beasties story bundle launching in a few weeks. The title of the collection is MY SOCKS ROLLED DOWN and Nine Other Stories… So now putting the stories and introduction together into Vellum. Here is the cover… The half price sale still…
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Going For It!!!
Starting Two New Challenges for Myself… Actually, three. And I will be doing every detail of everything all myself. No help from anyone. That’s right. I will be doing my own covers and my own interiors with Vellum or InDesign. I will be listing them all electronically and with Ingram for paper and hardbacks. And I will be working on my store and getting all of them there as well. So what is my challenge? From November 10, 2025 until November 9th 2026… Challenge #1… I am going to write and finish a new novel every two weeks. So 26 novels, but in the actual year I will more than…
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Long Day, But Good One…
Not Enough Sleep… So calling it a night early tonight. Tomorrow is Kickstarter Friday, and so far I have only had two sent to me. August 1st 2012 I challenged myself to blog every night without missing, thinking I might make it a few months. 4,844 days later, I do this short post to keep the streak going. Damn streaks are powerful. Night
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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…