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Filler Tonight
Day 1,257… Not doing a full post tonight because I have spent the entire day either reading or on this computer and my eye needs a rest. But it was a fun day and a good one. And had to keep the blogging streak alive. (grin) Can’t break it after 1,257 days. Starting tomorrow (March 1st) I will be back posting full blogs with all the data. You remember… it looks like this… I got a lot of writing I want to do in March, so should be fun to track. Tracking Running… March 1st, 2017 — miles. No running. Weight 193. Month to date distance: — miles ————– Tracking Word Counts… March…
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Time to Rest… Blast from the Past
All Good Intentions… I spent all day in meetings, then working at my computer at work doing workshop stuff, then home at this computer and then reading. I rested my eye regularly, but still too tired in the eye to write much tonight or read much more. So the planned blog is replaced by this placeholder so I can keep my streak alive. Maybe tomorrow. In the meantime, how about a blast from the past on this Thursday? In this picture from the 1960 World Science Fiction Convention taken by Jay Kay Klein, Ron Ellik, Randall Garrett, Mark Irwin, Isaac Asimov, L. Sprague de Camp, Dirce Archer, and James Blish watch BJo…
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Another Short Placeholder Streak Blog
Got the estate house done… Did a mass of workshop stuff off and on all day. Off to sleep now…
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Saturday Night Again
I worked on workshop stuff, watched a bunch of television, wrote a bunch of words, and had a good day. And that, my dear friends, makes this a filler post to keep the streak of posting every day alive. Back tomorrow night with some more questions from the discussion started last week about why modern writers are such wimps. Night.
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A Second Filler Post
The drive from Redding, California, over the mountains and down into the valley with Portland, Salen, Eugene Oregon was fine. But from there it got sort of tricky. Hitting with 70 mph winds tonight here on the coast and nasty rain. I came in over the coast range through it. Tiring drive. White snow along the road, heavy fog, hard rain, and wind. Places I couldn’t see anything, let alone the road. Not fun. But I made it. So I managed to get the workshop assignments done tonight and will be back at everything full tomorrow and will do a wrap-up on the travel book here. But tonight the power is…
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A Filler Post
I’ll write the prolog chapter on the nonfiction book after I get home tomorrow night. Right now I just got off the road and am sitting in a suite in Reddding, CA. (Yes, drove from Vegas today.) I want to be up moderately early tomorrow to get over the mountains between here and Oregon before the next storm hits. I have chains but I really don’t want to use them. So tomorrow night I will write the epilog chapter about the entire writing process on the road. It will make more sense tomorrow anyway. (grin) Night…
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Chapter Six: Writing a Novel in Five Days While Traveling
WRITING A NOVEL IN FIVE DAYS WHILE TRAVELING… CHAPTER SIX… Fourth day of writing on the novel and it turned out fine, but I didn’t make up any ground. But I had a great day both writing and on the vacation part. I ended up with 8,200 words, but had been hoping for a few thousand more. I might still get some more in, but I’ll add them onto tomorrow if I do since it’s 4 a.m. Detailing Out the Day… Once again I made it out of bed by noon and by 1 p.m. I had showered, gotten dressed, and was headed for lunch with the guys in the buffet. Yes, we…
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Regaining Focus
Topic of the Night: Regaining Focus Last night I talked about focus, how times and outside events sometimes cause us to lose focus in our writing. How do you get the focus back on writing besides the simple answer “Slowly?” That answer helps no one, really. So let me give a few ideas on how to regain focus, or at least how I have done it at times. How I have brought back up writing on my priority list over the years when the world is tossing in far too many things. Look at Overall Goals Sometimes losing focus can be not only caused by other things in life taking…
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Star Fall Is Out
Star Fall Is Out. That’s right. Remember the novel I finished about two weeks ago? Star Fall: A Seeders Universe Novel? Remember, I wanted to write it in seven days and failed to ten days? (grin) That book is now available as I promised it would be. The official publication date isn’t until November, but at the moment it is available in a fantastic bundle called The Extreme Science Fiction Bundle. Also notice that in this bundle there is a fantastic Retrieval Artist novel called Extremes by Kris. And also an amazing volume of Fiction River: Risk Takers. I edited that and it is a fantastic example of a Fiction River volume.…
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Started New Novel
Started New Novel I didn’t get very far because, to be honest, just didn’t feel much like doing anything tonight. But got it started, so maybe tomorrow I will get going. It will be the second novel in the Seeders Universe in a row. This one will be called Starburst. Otherwise, a day of meetings and got my walking in and cooked dinner and watched far too much television. And I did a bunch of workshop stuff as well. October Workshops Click the workshop tab above for description and sign-up or go to www.wmgpublishingworkshops.com. Questions about any of the workshops, feel free to write me. All have openings. And wow, this is a…