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Creating a Habit of Writing
How to Do It?… Make a schedule and stick to it. Pretty soon the schedule becomes a habit. That’s how. It really is that simple, but that difficult. First of all, I needed to want to write again. Got that going with the challenge. Forced my own hand there, maybe a little sooner than I should, but ah well, it’s going. Second, I had to get used to this new place and Kris’s world here since I have spent most of the last six months in Oregon cleaning out the house we lived in for 23 years. Spent the last six weeks plus learning to live and love this wonderful…
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Writing Habits
Habit of Writing Makes Everything Easier… I have, regularly, over the years, written out of habit, meaning I write at the same time every day. And when doing that, and managing a decent amount every day, the writing just gets easier. And I get a vast amount done. In fact, when I am in that habit state, I wonder why I ever have days I don’t write. So now, in my new place in Las Vegas, away from a house I lived in for 23 years and all the normal habits it gave me, I am finding it fascinatingly difficult to figure out a new writing habit. I have a…
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Running Out of Time
On Two Different Things… First, amazingly enough, the October regular workshops are starting next Tuesday and Wednesday. I haven’t really even mentioned the October workshops here with all the other stuff going on. So almost no one is signed up. So time to jump on board any of them and get some real focused learning. This month might be one of the best months of workshop choices we have ever offered. Sign up at Teachable.com And there are lifetime subscriptions available on Teachable as well if you decide to get serious and really try to talk as many as possible. Class #37… Oct 2nd … How to Study Writing Class…
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Planning Ahead in Writing Time
Knowing the Reality… I got this great question from a writer asking me how I managed to remain so calm while getting behind on this challenge and having so much get in the way. I would say the answer is one simple word… Awareness. I was aware starting into this challenge that I had this last trip, and the workshop next month, and a ton of stuff to do that fell early on that had to be done and would take time away from the writing. I also knew I had to build brand new writing habits here in my new home, and that would take some time. But I…
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Great Fun Today
Taking a Very Short Trip... In fact, only a few days. Back in Vegas this weekend. I am flying first class and so got to go into the lounge area for the airline. Wow, nice, with all kinds of free food and comfortable tables and places to work. So since I had gotten to the airport early, I managed 1,300 words on the challenge novel in the lounge. Then on the two hour flight, my writing was only interrupted by them serving me dinner. (Yeah, tough life flying first class, but I can do that because flights in and out of Vegas are stunningly cheap if you know how to…
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Pulp Speed Challenge Update
Slow Start… Actually, I think that is an understatement. I should, if I was on schedule, be finishing the first novel tomorrow, September 18th. Nope, not even close. I knew going in that this last week was going to be a ton of work on the business and other stuff, but turned out to be even more than I had planned. I supposed I should have planned for that as well. (grin) But I have a saving out. My plan was to finish this first novel in ten days tomorrow, then take four days away from the challenge because of a trip back up to the coast. Going to have…
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Kickstarter Hit Third Stretch Goal
Only Has Two Days Left… We are within $500 of hitting the fourth stretch goal and doing great so far. If we hit that 4th goal, everyone supporting the subscription drive will not only get the subscription and their chosen reward, but at least five extra books. Five. And with more if we can go farther. Those of you workshop people, there are deals on workshops on this subscription drive. For $250 you get a $300 workshop plus a $150 classic workshop. So $450 in value for $250. There is also a $750 level where you can get three credits for workshops (to take at any time you want going…
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Three New Lectures
These Three Lectures Are Special… In fact, they will only be offered once each this fall and never again. Kris and I have been working on these for some time and finally decided to do them this fall. Very limited to the Lecture Lifetime Subscribers and ten more. I have zero doubt, from all the questions Kris and get constantly on this topic from writers, that these lectures will fill very, very quickly. So can you imagine one day the phone rings and it is someone you don’t know wondering if your movie rights are available??? Happens all the time. What do you do? And one day it will happen…
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Total Miss
Day Turned Into a Crazy Busy Day… So no words done today. Will I miss other times on this challenge? Oh, you bet. I knew these last two days were going to be tough before I even set up this challenge. And sadly, I was right. But not worried in the slightest. The next seven look pretty good, so I still think I can get book one done by the end of the 10th day. We shall see. One thing about writing, it is never a straight-line process. Tomorrow I got something really cool to add into the last week of our Fiction River Kickstarter. I will announce it here.…
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Day One of the Pulp Speed Challenge
This Is Not The First Chapter of the Book… Just wanted to do a quick update here on the first day. Well, I got started. I will do a more complete one when I write the first chapter of the book here. I also walked 11,000 steps, one mile of which was running. I recorded some workshop stuff and did other stuff as well. And got my writing computer set up. That took longer than expected. I decided to write a book called Hot Springs Meadow: A Thunder Mountain Novel. I had, up until I pulled my chair in front of my writing computer, thought I would logically start with…