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
How To Get More Story Ideas (otherwise known as: How To Tap Into the Elusive "Everywhere")
If you are like most yet-to-be-published writers, you attempt to learn all you can from the successful career authors any chance you get. This often includes reading magazine articles, interviews, and online articles about them, and sometimes even traveling to who-knows-where to meet them live and in-person at some sort of writer's conference or author signing. If you have done any of the above, you know very well and good that one of the absolute most common (and most utterly annoying) ... View Post
Project List for March 2014
Query Hunger Mountain about poem "Architect" (Kind of cheating, as I did this on 4.1.14, but I'm counting it here anyway! Had to query through Submittable Notes system as their listed email address came back as "no such domain" ... hrmmm.) Submit "Gray" to Clarkesworld (didn't happen...) Make poetry submission somewhere (nope, didn't happen ...) Continue to work on "The Good Thing" (goal: 300 words/day) (I wrote about 700 words all month :P) Keep up with blog posts (I'll give myself a 50% ... View Post
How Noveling is Much Like Running Marathons (or at least Half-Marathons… but probably more like Full-Marathons)
You know those people who go on and on about fitness and think running forever is awesome and they can't get enough of it and they tell you all about how running forever is like thebestthingever and you just gotta try it cuz if you try it you'll just love it and never wanna stop??? Yeah, that's not what this post is. So you can relax. Hehe. As some of you may know, I participated in (against my better judgment) the Disney Princess Half-Marathon on February 23rd, 2014. I was talked into this ... View Post
Project List for February 2014
Yep. Behind. :P Boy this month is kicking my butt already! (Half the office is out this week, meaning I have to work full time instead of part time and can't take any time off, one of the grandmas is out of town as well, meaning I have one less babysitter, and I'm supposed to be running a half-marathon in ten days and have only reached 4 miles in my training... *hyperventilates*... *channels calm*... okay anyway, let's continue, shall we?!) Let's see if I can scrape things together and get ... View Post
Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for January 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
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