Monthly Archive:: October 2020
Today, I wrapped up the scene where my hero gets into a mysterious carriage that her best friend promises will take her safety and then jumped to the start of the scene where they arrive at that “safety.” In the …
There was a time when I held myself responsible for getting my words in, no matter what. Then, I would find time to write over lunch break on my tablet, if I had to. I would do whatever it takes. …
Back to writing the novel today and I’m still working on that replacement scene. I’m nearly to the end of it, I think, and need to figure out how to close out the action without being tempted to show every …
So, despite having a good day yesterday working on my novel, I decided to focus today on my blog in order to try to knock out one of those articles that I know I need to post soon, but haven’t …
Today, I finally got back to the keyboard and starting working on a new attempt at that scene I had started last weekend. Last time around, I had a solid writing session in terms of word output, but realized afterwards …
I was listening to an episode of Six Figure Authors today where they were answering questions about craft, and it seems the one thing that all of them had in common was that they never read craft books. I want …
All this week, I haven’t been writing and have instead been sleeping in, with the hope that conserving the energy I spend creating (or worrying about the quality of my creation) might help me to better handle an incredibly busy …
I’m still in my week of sleeping in. I don’t know if that’s the reason, but I feel better in general and have been better able to handle the stress that comes up at work and also not bring it …
This week, I am trying to conserve my mental energy for a really stressful workweek, so I have not been getting up to write. But my body is insisting that I get up anyway. So far, my attempts to sleep …
As good as yesterday’s session was, unfortunately it won’t be a source of momentum. Going into a week of hell at work as we approach a crunch deadline, I need to conserve my mental and physical energy. So, for the …