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Day Seven: Writing a Novel in Half a Month
Chapter Seven: Day Seven of Writing a Novel in Half a Month Back to my normal times and today nothing really forced me out of routine. I had originally planned on going to the store this afternoon, since I did not go on Monday because of too much to do, but turned out I didn’t need to go, so maybe Friday. So otherwise a normal day with Loren Coleman and I spending some time on the phone talking Kickstarter Best Practices for Fiction Writers. He has a book on the topic coming out that is going to be amazing. Stay tuned here on that. Day Seven, Entry One. 12:30 pm. …
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Day Six: Writing a Novel in Half a Month
Chapter Six: Day Six of Writing a Novel in Half a Month Ended up getting up an hour ahead of my normal time. Rolled out at 10:30 am, not for any reason other than I had had enough rest, even though I went to be around 4 am. Just resting and watching television for a number of hours is actually restful. Who knew. So made it to this internet computer at 11:30 Day Six, Entry One. 12:30 pm. For the first hour starting at 11:30 am I did a bunch of email. Got that caught up some. 1:30 pm. For the next hour I did a short newsletter that will…
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Day Five: Writing a Novel In A Half Month
Chapter Five: Day Five of Writing a Novel in Half a Month Again today started out as just another regular day, but Mondays are never just another day, so even though I took out my normal grocery shopping, the day so far has been just as I expected. Last night, after I signed off here, I watched a little television before going to bed at 4 am. Day Five, Entry One. 11:30 am. Rolled out of bed and was at this internet computer at 12:30 pm doing email and business stuff. 2:00 pm. Lunch with Kris and today watched news. 3:00 pm. Regular weekly Zoom meeting with the main crew…
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Day Three: Writing a Novel in Half a Month
Chapter Three: Day Three Again another regular day so far. Last night, after I signed off here, I worked on reading a little and ended up going to bed at 4 am. Day Three, Entry One. 11:30 am. Rolled out of bed and got to this computer around 12:30 pm. Worked on emails and workshop stuff for an hour. April workshops all posted now. New workshop sale will start tomorrow. 1:30 pm. I headed down to our office and loaded 16 very heavy boxes of books into our SUV to take to the storage unit. Amazingly windy day, gusting up close to 40 mph, but sunny and clear. So with…
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Day Two: Writing a Novel in a Half Month
Chapter Two: Day Two … Standard day so far. I will keep doing the hourly breakdowns of the day as I go forward. I’m keeping little notes on a scratch pad so I remember exactly. Last night, after I signed up, I worked on reading Cave Creek stories for about an hour before at 3 am going to watch some television. Ended up getting to bed around 3:30 am. Day Two, Entry One. 11:30 am. Rolled out of bed and got to this computer around 12:30 pm with my breakfast protein bar. That is pretty standard for me these days unless something strange is going on. I spent one hour…
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Day One: Writing a Novel in Half a Month
Chapter One: Day One I will be returning here numbers of times during the day to update this chapter. That way I don’t miss anything along the way. At least I hope I don’t. Also, I will be able to talk about my moods, what I am thinking about something. Much better than trying to recreate the entire day at the end, when I am tired. So onward with this. Day One, Entry One 11:10 am. Rolled out of bed just about at my normal time these days and with my breakfast bar, made it to my internet computer around noon. I worked on email for a while, then spent…
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Writing In Public…
Prologue Decided to do it. Write a novel in public again, detailing it out in blog posts every night. Totally insane, but great fun, which is why I am doing this. The last few days were interesting. The more I looked at the next ten to twelve days, and looked at deadlines, and publishing and other writing projects I will be doing, the more I realized how much I had to do. So the sane thing would be to just push off trying to do a novel quickly and in public. I’ve failed a number of times trying this because of scheduling issues the first year I was here in…
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Smith’s Monthly #46 Out Tomorrow
In Theory… That means that I will have gotten two months out in a row, and already working on Smith’s Monthly #47 layout (March issue) and putting #48 together (April issue). As I do covers for short stories, I’ll post them here. But I have a desire to do a novel quickly, so I may do one of those books that I talk about the writing moment-by-moment each day for 10 days. The reason I got onto this idea was way back (years and years ago) I did that here, put all the blogs together into a book called Writing a Novel in Ten Days. Well, that book is in…
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Downside of Being Disorganized…
Just Because I Like to Write… Yup, me and Heinlein’s 4th Rule have a sort of love/hate relationship. As I have said often, I have no idea how many short stories I have written. Number ranges from 400 and up. Maybe way up. Over 200 have been published in Smith’s Monthly alone. So while putting the next issue of Smith’s Monthly together, I had a story manuscript in paper, but could not find the file anywhere. So a few days later I had my writing computer basically give up the ghost (lost nothing but the mouse said “Nope” and I tried three different alternatives and all of them said, “Nope.”),…
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How I Did In January… My Challenge
I Learned and Did Fine… In my opinion. Here is what I said I wanted to do in 2021 on January 1st. (You remember, before the insurrection.) “So my challenge for 2021 is to write a story per day for the year, plus write a novel per month, plus publish over 70 major books.” Well, so far, so interesting. I managed 6 short stories in January, right up to January 6th, then got distracted for a few days. Then as I went back to it, I realized that my tracking systems for short stories sucked beyond words and I couldn’t even remember much about the six I wrote a few…