The Writing Business
Saturday
* Penthius freewriting - a pseudo-fairytale retelling of the hunting of a white deer.
* Finished reading FundsforWriters newsletter.
* Edited several more pages in Vicesteed (big yay!), notably removing about four pages of an unnecessary and confusing attempted rape/hallucination flashback scene. Felt very accomplished, as getting that knocked out has been one of the big "Eek, how will I do this!" blocks that's been making me procrastinate that edit like whoa. And it's so much smoother and more engaging! (I hate first chapters.)
I think I should direct my activities more on weekends. Weekdays are always actual writing time, if I have writing-related time. Maybe if I frame it so that Saturdays are my editing days and Sundays are my submissions days, it will help. Of course, there are still the "other" writing tasks: PR, newsletter maintenance, website maintenance, cultivating minions, researching markets and updating market listings, reading umpteen writing newsletter articles, doing Critters critiques to get my own work critiqued, and persuading others to critique my writing.
And somewhere in there I need to consider expanding into non-fiction. I suppose the easy way to slide into it would be to start with book/movie reviews.
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The writing business is really about a lot more than just writing.
* Penthius freewriting - a pseudo-fairytale retelling of the hunting of a white deer.
* Finished reading FundsforWriters newsletter.
* Edited several more pages in Vicesteed (big yay!), notably removing about four pages of an unnecessary and confusing attempted rape/hallucination flashback scene. Felt very accomplished, as getting that knocked out has been one of the big "Eek, how will I do this!" blocks that's been making me procrastinate that edit like whoa. And it's so much smoother and more engaging! (I hate first chapters.)
I think I should direct my activities more on weekends. Weekdays are always actual writing time, if I have writing-related time. Maybe if I frame it so that Saturdays are my editing days and Sundays are my submissions days, it will help. Of course, there are still the "other" writing tasks: PR, newsletter maintenance, website maintenance, cultivating minions, researching markets and updating market listings, reading umpteen writing newsletter articles, doing Critters critiques to get my own work critiqued, and persuading others to critique my writing.
And somewhere in there I need to consider expanding into non-fiction. I suppose the easy way to slide into it would be to start with book/movie reviews.
...
The writing business is really about a lot more than just writing.