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GUEST POST!!! On the Tracking of Progress, by A.B. Keuser
Hey, folks! It’s me. Below we have a first for this site: a guest post! This entry is by A.B. Keuser, a speculative fiction author who, by her own words, “spends a lot of time making things up and figuring … Continue reading
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Progress! I has it!
So my writing month of April is in the books! How did it go? Well: That word total is just in drafting Lighthouse Boy, which I have now retitled Seaflame!, after its main character. (Yes, I’m using an exclamation point … Continue reading
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Updates and What Some Other Folk Are Up To
Greetings, programs! It’s been a while since I updated my progress and/or linked some other stuff around the Writersphere, so…I’m now going to update my progress and link some stuff around the Writersphere. Wow-za! :: I think I have a … Continue reading
March Productivity!
I saw that writer A B Keuser writes a monthly post highlighting the previous month’s productivity, and that struck me as a good idea, so here’s how my month of March went! Some of this has been covered by my … Continue reading
What happens when you’re done?
So what do you do when you finish writing a novel? What happens after you publish it? I can’t speak for every writer out there, but for me, the answer is clear: I start the next one. There was a … Continue reading
AuthorLifeMonth!
Well, I got busy and then I got the flu and then…yada yada yada, I guess. However, if you recall, last month was “AuthorLifeMonth” on Instagram, so here are the rest of my entries! Day 12 was “Killed Darlings”. “Kill … Continue reading
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On “Forcing It”
I’m a firm believer in writing every day, even on the days when the mere thought of sitting down at the computer to write makes me want to stick my head in an oven. There are times when we just … Continue reading
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How I do Social Media!!
If you’re a writer these days, you pretty much have to engage in social media in some way or other, unless you are a sufficiently big name that maybe you don’t have to but it’s fun to do so (see … Continue reading
“We don’t have time to do one thing at a time!”
In a comments thread on another writer’s Instagram feed the other day, the question of how to multi-task as a writer came up. Here is my approach: Sooner or later in anything written by Aaron Sorkin, somebody will say: “We … Continue reading
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It’s #AuthorLifeMonth!
There’s quite a wonderful thing going on in the Instagram world this month! It’s one of those daily photo challenges, but this one — hashtagged #AuthorLifeMonth — is geared specifically to writers, as a way of showing off a little … Continue reading
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