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May 14, 2014

Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for April 2014

Someone once said that to be a successful and productive writer, one had to do the equivalent of “cutting bait, fishing, and reeling ‘em in, all at the same time”! This translates to writing as working on projects-in-progress while at the same time submitting completed projects to potential markets and also continuing to cultivate new ideas for future projects. In case you missed my previous post on this subject, at the end of every month I compile a list of what I accomplished as far as ... View Post

Filed Under: Bait Fish and Reel, Living the Vision, Poems, submissions, Writing Tagged With: poem, progress report, short story, submissions, the good thing, the plan, word count, writing

April 4, 2014

Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for March 2014

Someone once said that to be a successful and productive writer, one had to do the equivalent of “cutting bait, fishing, and reeling ‘em in, all at the same time”! This translates to writing as working on projects-in-progress while at the same time submitting completed projects to potential markets and also continuing to cultivate new ideas for future projects. In case you missed my previous post on this subject, at the end of every month I compile a list of what I accomplished as far as ... View Post

Filed Under: Bait Fish and Reel, Living the Vision, Poems, submissions, Writing Tagged With: poem, progress report, short story, submissions, the good thing, the plan, word count, writing

March 6, 2014

Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for February 2014

Someone once said that to be a successful and productive writer, one had to do the equivalent of “cutting bait, fishing, and reeling ‘em in, all at the same time”! This translates to writing as working on projects-in-progress while at the same time submitting completed projects to potential markets and also continuing to cultivate new ideas for future projects. In case you missed my previous post on this subject, at the end of every month I compile a list of what I accomplished as far as ... View Post

Filed Under: Bait Fish and Reel, Living the Vision, Poems, submissions, Writing Tagged With: poem, progress report, short story, submissions, word count, writing

December 31, 2013

Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for December 2013

Someone once said that to be a successful and productive writer, one had to do the equivalent of “cutting bait, fishing, and reeling ‘em in, all at the same time”! This translates to writing as working on projects-in-progress while at the same time submitting completed projects to potential markets and also continuing to cultivate new ideas for future projects. In case you missed my previous post on this subject, at the end of every month I compile a list of what I accomplished as far as ... View Post

Filed Under: Bait Fish and Reel, Living the Vision, Poems, submissions, Writing Tagged With: poem, progress report, short story, submissions, the good thing, word count, writing

December 14, 2013

Trial By Fire: Lessons and Habits Finally Realized and Learned in NaNoWriMo Year 2

And I thought I'd learned a lot from my first year of participation in NaNoWriMo. Pah. I confess that my transition, I feel, was a bit rockier than most in the beginning last year, likely because up until that point I had spent the previous nine years writing only fanfiction, which is a completely different beast than original fiction (and NOT just for the obvious reasons, but that's a whole different post...).  It took me awhile to settle into the original fiction brain last year. But this ... View Post

Filed Under: Boot Camp, Living the Vision, The Learning Curve, Writing Tagged With: book in a month, nanowrimo, plot process, progress report, realization, story formation, the good thing, the plan, writing

December 11, 2013

Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for November 2013

Someone once said that to be a successful and productive writer, one had to do the equivalent of “cutting bait, fishing, and reeling ‘em in, all at the same time”! This translates to writing as working on projects-in-progress while at the same time submitting completed projects to potential markets and also continuing to cultivate new ideas for future projects. In case you missed my previous post on this subject, at the end of every month I compile a list of what I accomplished as far as ... View Post

Filed Under: Bait Fish and Reel, Clarksworld Magazine, Living the Vision, Poems, submissions, Writing Tagged With: A Storm of Swords, book in a month, Clarkesworld Magazine, George R. R. Martin, nanowrimo, No More Rejections: 50 Secrets to Writing a Manuscript that Sells, poem, progress report, submissions, the good thing, the plan, word count, writing

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