I'm 16th century camping this weekend. We're doing another Immersion weekend in Stephen and Alena's backyard. I'm almost done packing, time to start loading up the car (I'm going to be late for our workshop, no surprise there ( Read more... )

I managed to Get Stuff Done ™ on Saturday. I ran the dishwasher and got in two loads of laundry. I ran the vacuum because the dust bunnies have been getting uppity again. And when the Golden Hour hit and the living room was flooded with light, I went after my eight-legged roommates with the vacuum, because the arachnids have been getting uppity ( Read more... )

Thursday night I told Jenny, my massage therapist, that I’ve got a lot on my mind, and I feel like my brain is all over the place right now.

Yesterday I ended up doing quite a bit of writing. 3,300 words. But that was on four different stories that I’ve currently got in progress. All of which are pretty much demanding to be written right now. ( Read more... )

Pretty much all I accomplished yesterday was 2,100 words.

Which is not what I'm supposed to be doing right now. But I've got four different stories bugging me to write or finish them right now, and that's not something I can really ignore unless I want my Muse to break up with me. So yesterday I wrote.

Yesterday's word count = 1,200.

Yesterday's word count was 1,600.

I might actually finish the first draft by this weekend! (There's heavy revisions coming though, which I seldom do, but this story has shifted as I wrote it and needs to be reworked.)

So another one of my New Year’s goals is to get back to work. As in, find myself a new job. Because I’ve been putting it off long enough. I spent 90 minutes job hunting this morning and sent out resumes. I spent another 60 minutes job hunting this afternoon and sent out more resumes. Grand total today was 10 sent ( Read more... )

Stumbling across this article listing the daily word counts of 39 famous authors this morning was a good thing. I’m always curious how productive the pros are. And it’s nice to see the wide range (500 - 6,000 a day, we’ll consider Michael Crighton an outlier with his 10K words a day!). The vast majority seem to clock in somewhere between 1,000 ( Read more... )

One of my big goals for this year is to make an effort to write (almost) every day. And to finish up the large number of stories that I’ve started and not finished. At this point I’ve got three half-written NaNoWriMo novels that need finishing, as well as a ton of WIP (work in progress) fanficiton stories that I’d like to finally get around to ( Read more... )

Well, as of this morning, when I finished posting the Captain America/ Peggy Carter story that I’ve been working on, I’ve got eleven short stories and over 100K words posted on A03 ( Read more... )