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Big Results in Less Time by Ian Stables
The techniques Ian Stables shares in Big Results In Less Timeare concise, simple, doable, realistic, and feasible. This $2.99 booklet provides suggestions that are so forthcoming that I couldn't help...
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Revision Week Ahead!
Someone suggested, instead of dividing up a day or spacing out parts of the week for drafting and revising, that I take a full week for each activity. (Kathy smacks forehead with palm, shakes head and...
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Work Ahead (Revising)
While drafting is more about getting in the mood, revision is more like showing up for work. Lots of light, sit at the keyboard, and work. Just as if you were performing a work task, there are steps...
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15 Minutes a Day = A Book In a Year
In order not to lose my first drafting momentum during a revision week, I set aside 15 Minutes a day to draft original material. In those 15 minutes, I am able to write 1 to 1-1/2 pages (250 to 350...
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Time for Change (Process, Goal, and Schedule Review)
In the last few months, to increase my writing productivity, I have experimented with several writing schedules, such as:Drafting and revision by writing first draft material in the morning and...
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In Training - Time to Write
I have resisted with much effort using a timer as a tool to accomplish my fiction writing tasks -- as in no-way-no-how-you-can't-make-me-do-this-dig-in-heels resistance. Yet, for the past week, because...
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Writing a Book Fifteen Minutes at a Time
With each fifteen minutes I write, I jot a tick mark at the top of my chapter notes page. Four vertical marks and a diagonal mark across indicates five fifteen minute increments or 1 hour and 15...
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Series #1 Status
In reviewing the overall status of completing my five-book YA Paranormal Thriller Series, as of today, March 18, 2013, my progress is as follows:First DraftedBook #1 (100% Complete)Â Book #2: (100%...
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SBICAW (Sit Butt in Chair and Write)
Years ago, in a creative writing class at a local community college, the instructor wrote SBICAW on a chalkboard in florescent blue chalk and stabbed at the chalk letters with his index finger. He...
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Time to Write by Kelly L. Stone
This past week, I have been experimenting with a Writing Blitz. My former job consisted of lots of intense hours right before a deadline, then slowed somewhat before the next deadline approached. A...
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Rock Your Plot, One More Time!
Yesterday, I plotted Book #4 of Series #1. I used the guidance of ROCK YOUR PLOT: A Simple System for Plotting Your Novel (Rock Your Writing) [Kindle Edition], with the supplemental ROCK YOUR PLOT...
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A Bump in the Road (Writing Onward!)
Just like slowing your car for a BUMP AHEAD sign on the highway, I've been forced to slow my writing pace; however, SLOW does not mean STOP.Goals all worked out and tasks targeted, the past few weeks,...
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Review Time (Writing Full Time & Loving It!)
The journey during these last few months of writing full time has been enlightening and painful, yet satisfying and fulfilling.In attempt to keep track of when, where, and how I reached self-defined...
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Back to Basics (Progress Tracking & Scene Direction Made Simple)
While previously a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and a Microsoft Word table listing chapters served as tracking devices for my writing, now that I am heavy-duty first drafting, a printed sheet from a...
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Writing In Dark and Through the Darkness
Lights out, shades drawn, sitting before the monitor, I enter the story world of my mind and write through the darkness to bring the story to the page. Fingers on keyboard, I sit in the dark pondering...
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Ali's Victory by Kat Duncan (On My Kindle)
Ali's Victory by Kat Duncan is a grabs-you-and-doesn't-let-you-go Romantic Suspense. Not only has Kat Duncan renewed my faith and interest in Romantic Suspense, during the reading of Ali's Victory, I...
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Author Dean Wesley Smith is Doing What? (Common Writing Myths)
When it comes to writing techniques and processes, one size does not fit all. What works for my favorite authors may not work for me, yet one techinique used by another might be just the ticket. That's...
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Bookstore Closings (The New Era of Publishing)
One of two major chain bookstores in our nearby college town will close in the next few week. With a nostalgic sadness, I look back at the precious hours I've spent browsing bookstores, to include the...
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Disconnected and Interconnected
In disconnecting from the mobile phone and allowing only a few minutes a day on the internet, I found myself . . . and I didn't even realize I was missing! For the past few days, I have streamlined...
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Less Than Zero & More Than Anything
While on an awesome eleven-day road trip with hubby, where there was no cell signal or wifi for the majority of the getaway, we watched television only once during the entire time, during whichI...
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