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New month starts tomorrow, time to decide on what I want to do. This one’s pretty easy, in a difficult kind of way. 1. Finish FJR. The rough draft. Done. Complete. I write everything out by hand first, so by complete, I mean that I have typed it into the computer as well. Then, on…
Well, September’s over. I changed my goals halfway through: to just finishing as much of FJR as I could. I was shooting for something like 50 pages. I got about 30 in and another 11 on the round story chapter…so total for pages was about right, just not all on one piece. Not too shabby.…
Ha! Guess what I finished just now? Three guesses, but you’ll only need one. The round story chapter, you got it. I win! Finished before the deadline! Now I’m going to soak my aching fingers in ice water.
All right, so I started out really strong with the round story, and I know exactly where I want it to go. However, I seem to have dropped it in favor of the novel that I really want to get done by November. This equals trouble for the round story bit because it seems that…
Last night Shane surprises me because he’s bought Season 1 of Heroes. And so, of course, instead of working on my novel like I’ve planned all day, I decide that watching the show would be more fun. After a little while, I definitely felt like I was watching way too much T.V. but I discovered…
I’ve just finished a rough area of my novel where the characters have to deal with an intense emotional crisis. Now, it seems like these are the fun scenes to write – the scenes where everything comes to a head. But it’s been such slow going. Putting people, even imaginary ones, through hell is just…
Today I did the math to discover how far I had to go in my novel before I’m finished. By my guesstimation I have around 15,000 more words to go. That’s not much. So, if I write 500 words a day (two pages) I could conceivably have the rough draft of FJR done in 30…
There are a lot of questions out there about where to find places that will publish your work. Really, all you’ve got to do is snoop around a little bit and you’ll find a place. But (!) to make your snooping easier, below are wonderful resources for writers looking to publish short stories, poetry, and…
“How do you go about submitting your work? Do you have a system for keeping track of markets and/or pieces you’ve sent out?” –Ali She asked this like it would have a simple answer…. What I do, when I’m looking to send stories out, is I first browse through various market sites (for some great…
Okay, so I’ve decided to throw the September goals out the window and readjust a couple things.1. I will finish the round story chapter (umm, I think I have to…)2. I will write as much as I can on FJR–hoping at least 50 pages…And that’s it. I was going to have a new chapter of…
