One of the things I’m really trying to get serious about in 2018 is regulating and reducing the amount of time I spend online. Not all web time is created equal, obviously, and I have no plans to abandon activities like emailing friends and looking up call scripts, language practice and story research. What I […]
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New year, new resolutions. This won’t be an especially long post, but I am going to do something I’ve never done before and lay out my 2018 business plan here in addition to my resolutions. The only real difference between the two is that the business plan is more specific to my writing career, whereas
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It’s that time of year again! All credit for this totally awesome, incredibly bookish survey goes to Jamie at the Perpetual Page Turner. If you’d like to give it a try on your own, feel free to leave me a link to your survey post in comments. I’m always on the hunt for new books
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I’ve got to be honest: 2017 was a hard year for me. It was hard to stay on task and hard to keep moving forward and hard to focus on things that weren’t the ever-burning dumpster fire that is American politics right now. Usually, the new year is a time of celebration and rejuvenation and
November is over, and I . . . didn’t accomplish nearly as much as I hoped for. Life happened, I got busy, and my somewhat lofty goals were no longer attainable within a week or two. However, I still made far more progress than I would’ve if I’d chosen to set no goals at all
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I was going to do another NaNo update post this week, but I thought better of it. For one, because I haven’t made nearly as much progress on my November goals as I wanted in the last seven days, and I don’t want to give you an update that isn’t an update. And for two,
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I’m off to a slightly better start this week, now that my last vacation of the year is behind me. Don’t expect any major progress at this point–I’ve only been back three days, after all–but at least I’ve managed to get some work done. Here’s where I’m at right now: 1. Research Although I feel
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It might be a good thing that I’m not aiming to write 50,000 words this month, because I wouldn’t be off to a very good start! Between preparing for a friend’s wedding and my usual pre-trip stress, I haven’t accomplished much of anything in the first full week of November. Here’s a quick rundown of
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A month ago, when I still thought I’d be participating in National Novel Writing Month, I was planning to post miniature updates on this blog as a way of charting my progress toward rewriting/revising my mystery and reaching 50k. And even though my NaNo plans fell apart, I still like the idea of holding myself
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I’ve written before about being change averse, and learning to cope when my best laid plans are inevitably disrupted. It’s an ongoing process, but it’s a process I’m thrilled to have started, especially during months like this one. Right now, trying to plan for anything feels like an exercise in futility. I was planning to