Monthly Archive:: September 2020
Today is the first of two days that I have to go into the office early, cannibalizing my writing time. After all that work has been doing to keep me late over the past weeks (and the next few to …
While my computer was down, I was still able to get some writing done, but coaching wasn’t happening, so I had a few requests built up that needed replies. Somehow or other, that ate all of my writing time today, …
I’m catching up on the dictation from over two weeks ago, the first few days of being computerless. I got one full scene scrubbed and into Scrivener today, as well as about a third of the next. I’ll have a …
I’ve got Scrivener and Dragon set up and moved all my data from my backup drive plus the dictation files from the no-computer period onto the new machine. Now it’s time to get everything into Scrivener, including revising the dictation, …
If you’re reading this after the fact, this post won’t make and difference, but to anyone following along live, you haven’t seen a new post from me in 18 days. That’s not because I’d fallen off the wagon or stopped …
Today, I decided to prioritize sleep again. I am still struggling to face down this stressful situation at work and am not feeling any better physically or mentally. If I was professional, I would be writing anyway, but I am …
Despite yesterday being the first day back after a long weekend, I’m already feeling like I need a break from it all. The AuthorDad approach to a writing career is to build a backlist while keeping up my university job …
I know where my story needs to go next, in general, but I hadn’t thought the scenes out this far in advance, so I’m at the point where I need to create them one-by-one with only the memory of my …
Since my computer went down, all I’ve had to use was my phone and external keyboard or my voice recorder – though I don’t have Dragon to transcribe at the moment. But today, I borrowed my wife’s computer and it …
I’m rereading the chapters of Story Engineering about how to write scenes, and the gap between how I have written my scenes so far and how this book makes it clear that I should be writing them is disheartening. In …