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July 7, 2015

Giving Myself Permission to JUST. WRITE.

You may have noticed I am blogging significantly less than I used to. At the very least, I used to be pretty good about my Writing Prompt Wednesday posts. But not so these days. These days I can scarce keep up with my monthly goal posts and monthly what-in-the-crap-did-I-actually-do-this-month posts. Part of this is due to me now writing on a weekly basis for Doctor Who Watch (thus, less time for my own blogging). Part of this is due to the fact that blogging takes up a great deal of energy for ... View Post

Filed Under: Confessions, Living the Vision, The Learning Curve, Writing Tagged With: progress report, realization, the plan, writing

June 29, 2015

My First Official Publication! (and a few other BIG announcements!)

All right, *technically* it's not my first official publication. I *did* have those scientific research papers that had my name on them, published in peer-reviewed journals. And I *did* have a blog post as a Friday Feature article in the online Woven Tale Press magazine. But I count *this one* as my first official publication because, after plugging away at this original fiction writing thing since October 2012, I will finally have something of mine put in a book that is available to the ... View Post

Filed Under: Announcements, Living the Vision, Publication, submissions, Writing Tagged With: progress report, the plan, writing

June 3, 2015

Project List for June 2015

And now it is time to publicly declare what I intend to get done in June! It's going to be a busy month, folks. I love it when I set ridiculous self-imposed deadlines! O_o Finish at least the rough draft of Hound of God and order test proof book through CreateSpace using NaNoWriMo winner free copies. Commission and pay for the main illustration for Hound of God (and possibly order prints for swag giveaway later!). Attend our 1st annual Wordwraiths writing retreat! Fix Patreon posting ... View Post

Filed Under: Editing, Living the Vision, Project List, The Hound of God Tagged With: editing, Project List, short story, writing

June 2, 2015

Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for May 2015!

Well, here it is. My progress report for the month of May 2015. I can't believe this year is basically half over already. Ridiculous! Since my previous way of listing everything out was cumbersome and slow (not to mention full of zeroes, which ended up being depressing and not particularly an accurate representation of what I'd been doing), I've now decided to do a much more informal type of recap. The Wordwraiths (my writing group) post our accomplishments and goals each month internally, so I ... View Post

Filed Under: Bait Fish and Reel, Living the Vision, submissions, The Hound of God Tagged With: editing, novella, short story, submissions, The Hound of God, writing

April 7, 2015

This Thing I Like to Call "Passive Editing" and How It Works…

Back in February I made a post outlining my Grand Master Plan for editing my 500+ page novel. Now it is April, and as some of you know, April is Camp NaNoWriMo. For Camp this year, I made the goal of spending 30 hours (or more) editing my novel for April. On April 1st, I began. In keeping with my Grand Master Plan, I am now in Phase One. Phase One involves what I've taken to calling "Passive Editing". Now, usually when I edit something, I go line by line and brutally analyze every single word. ... View Post

Filed Under: Camp NaNoWriMo, Editing, Living the Vision, The Learning Curve, Writing Tagged With: progress report, realization, the good thing, the plan, writing

March 22, 2015

The Take-Away Message from Planet Comicon: THEY SAID "YES" (… but no, he did not go to Jared's …)

No, I am not talking about proposals, here. Or ... maybe I am. Just not the marriage type. The business type. More accurately, the OPPORTUNITY type. Over the weekend of March 13 - 15th, I attended Kansas City's local comicon, dubbed Planet Comicon, to be official. I was most excited about this year's first-time guest panelists to Planet, Nerd For a Living. So excited, in fact, I even took off work early on Friday JUST FOR THEM! Why do they deserve some of my vacation time? Because they are ... View Post

Filed Under: Conventions and Workshops, Living the Vision, The Learning Curve, Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: realization, the plan, writing

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