Monthly Archive:: August 2020
I’m worried about my computer. Over the last few days, it has struggled to start up, and the issue seems to be mechanical. It sounds like a car engine that is turning over, but not sparking. There’s a sounds like …
After clearing up that coaching project yesterday, I had this morning to focus only on my story, and fortunately, there were no early wake-ups to throw off my schedule, so I got in over 700 words. Today, I tried to …
I figured today was the day I was going to finish my ongoing coaching project in the morning, then grab some time to get back into writing later in the day. And then my 5-year-old son woke up at 6:40. …
I think that moving forward, I am going to refuse all coaching requests that include reviewing scholarship plans in Japanese or, if I continue to include them, to double my price. In the past, every time I have raised my …
Of course it would be just after I get myself back into a flow with my story that my coaching client comes back for the next stage of the review. Again, grateful for this additional source of income to help …
Dissatisfied with my progress over the past couple of days, and especially how the words were not flowing, today I was determined to get into a rhythm. That means not stopping myself or second-guessing my wording. It also means picturing …
In terms of word count, today went a little better, though I got trapped into a counterproductive trap. I was continuing to edit my way back into the scene, adding some description and reflection from my POV character, but after …
Today, I was finally back working on my story after far too long away with coaching and other issues. So long away, that I’d forgotten where I was with it. In the past, I’ve shot myself in the foot that …
Yesterday, after my post, I secured a bit of extra time and through it back into my coaching project, thinking I could get it off my plate and get back to writing. . . only to have my client get …
Not a quarter of my book – I haven’t even hit 10k words in the rough draft (writing that, it’s a little depressing to think that 10k is some authors’ daily output – but that’s why I’m here, to tell …