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August 3, 2015

The "Finished Story" Feeling

Apparently there is a magic story length that exists and when I write a story of that magic length, I get a fabulous "finished story" feeling afterward. I do not get this feeling with shorter short stories. But I do get it after writing longer/longish short stories or very long novels. Not sure that 3000 words really cuts it, but 5000 and up does, for some reason. July 2015 was a terrible month for me, for various reasons. I have chronicled the difficulties of the month and how I still managed ... View Post

Filed Under: 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself, Camp NaNoWriMo, Confessions, Living the Vision, The Learning Curve, Writing Tagged With: camp NaNo, progress report, realization, short story, the plan, writing

July 14, 2015

Project List for July 2015

Yeah yeah yeah, so July is basically half over. But so what! I'm still going to make this post, for posterity! ;) In July of 2015 (it's Camp NaNoWriMo!), I hope to accomplish the following: - Move website hosting - Transfer content from current domain to new hosted domain - Set up email list on website - Finish last LOTR fanfic chapter based on beta reader feedback and complete the epilogue - Complete Wordwraith's anthology story "Dreamers" during Camp NaNoWriMo - Continue work on Hound of God ... View Post

Filed Under: Camp NaNoWriMo, Living the Vision, Project List, The Hound of God, Writing Tagged With: camp NaNo, progress report, short story, the plan, writing

May 6, 2015

April and May 2015 Project Lists and April Bait, Fish, and Reel Report … COMBINED!

Why hello there! No, no, I didn't forget about you. I was just busy editing the novel and playing Dragon Age every free waking moment of April. But here I am at long last with another much-needed update! If you've been following along the last few months, you know that April was Camp NaNoWriMo and that I planned to edit my novel for at least 30 hours as my Camp goal. Thus, the Project List for April 2015 was rather simple: April 2015 Project List: Edit PRIMUS for at least 30 hours, ideally ... View Post

Filed Under: Bait Fish and Reel, Camp NaNoWriMo, Conventions and Workshops, Editing, Living the Vision, Writing Tagged With: camp NaNo, conventions, editing, the good thing, the plan

March 13, 2013

Project List for March 2013

To help keep my thoughts in order these next few weeks, as we fast approach Camp NaNo (at reckless speed, really!), I decided to go ahead and track what I plan to get done for the rest of the month here, and cross items off the list as I go along.  So, let's see, my "Ta-Da List" for the rest of March (and it will surely be TA DA if I manage to get it all done!): Choose, prepare, edit, and submit five poems to The Animal Literary Magazine (it ended up being three poems, because the others ... View Post

Filed Under: Project List, Writing Tagged With: camp NaNo, critique circle, March 2013, progress report, Project List, short story, writing

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