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Well, I said at the beginning of the month that I had ambitious goals, and yes, they were ambitious, and they failed miserably. This makes me sad. Sure there were reasons, excuses, excuses, blah blah.
Course, if this had been my day job, perhaps I would have gotten fired. Those excuses don’t fly in the [...]
Pants report- not much pants on the weekend, spent time in sweatpants doing yardwork or being lazy with the family. It’s a weekend. I did pants up to go to a party, though. But today, I got up early to finish a freelance project, then worked out, then PANTS before noon.
Writing report- around 4000 [...]
I was talking to a good friend of mine today who is a personal coach. I don’t employ her officially but I know when we get talking about career, I do trust her opinions. We talked about my difficulty in focusing, and she asked me if I had a time in the past when I [...]
Starting around midweek last week, the house went to hell. The fish is already sick (dropsy, I think, but she’s not responding to any treatment), and the ten year old dog is showing signs of exhaustion after spending over a week with a puppy. The Pink Tornado got sick with strep throat, and Jim got [...]
Seems that this has been coming up a lot lately- authors bypassing the traditional publishing avenues and doing stuff themselves. Now, don’t laugh; of course it’s been coming up, as I and my podcasting peers have been doing it for years. But now some new developments are coming up, and they bear watching.
Tim Pratt [...]
I’m adding to my Rules for Writing – as I said, it’s a work in progress, created as I discover something else people should know.
And dude, this is something that everyone should know. It’s a golden rule you learn in preschool.
Rule 5- Don’t be an ass.
While this is one of [...]
I am happy to announce that as of yesterday, I am being represented by Brandi Bowles, an agent with Howard Morhaim Literary Agency!
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Sudden thought today: it seems the scifi authors who wrote about things that actually ended up happening (like the Internet or nanotech) seem to happily embrace the swiftly changing [...]
There’s one thing I never realized about this whole writing thing until- embarrassingly enough- this year. Whether you’re doing the “get started writing” thing or the “begin to get published” thing or the “alternate/indy/new media publishing” thing or even the “established writer veteran,” there is one thing you absolutely must have:
Measurable goals.
Having [...]
I just sat down and read Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity, by Hugh MacLeod, in one sitting. It’s a quick book to get through, and it has some very basic advice on creative living. But the biggest message I go out of the book is this simple thought:
I’m me. Be [...]
I hate hate hate coming up with titles. Hate it. Sometimes they come to me, but that’s very rare.
My favorite title is for my short story, I Look Forward to Remembering You, about time travel and how our main character hires someone to go back in time to change her past. So it fit. [...]
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