Just these three things:
1) Sanity in my life
2) Focus on my writing projects
3) 50 million readers
That's not too much to ask, right?
Io Saturnalia!!!
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Saturday, August 31, 2013
Into The Blue Again
Title of my Labor Day weekend writing start-up. It's NOT a 3 Day Novel Project - somehow, putting in for it seems more stressful that if I hadn't - but the good news is I'm writing something.
Here's the start:
"That's never a good sign."
"What is? You talking to yourself?"
...It'll get more interesting by Chapter Three, I promise.
GET TO WORK!
Here's the start:
"That's never a good sign."
"What is? You talking to yourself?"
...It'll get more interesting by Chapter Three, I promise.
GET TO WORK!
Friday, September 16, 2011
Sticking To Deadlines
As far as the writing plans for the Labor Day Weekend panned out... not so well. In short, I'm scrapping what I did write (which wasn't much). And focusing on getting a few other projects prepped for later.
Writers Block. I hate it. I have it.
There was a time when I spent a lot of it (time, that is) writing. Mostly fanfiction, back in the Nineties during my love affair with the television show The X-Files. Gossamer has an archive of most of what I wrote in terms of fanfic. For normal writing, regular fiction writing, I was focused on short stories mostly for writing contests. Eventually I coalesced the more coherent shorts into a smallish anthology Last of the Grapefruit Wars, which I published in 2003 through a Print-on-Demand service Xlibris.
And since then?
Most of my ambitious projects - actual novel writings, additional short story attempts for contests - don't go very far or very well. I've tried the 3-Day Novel contests for years to no avail... I've joined the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), and while the last two years I've "won" the months by hitting the 50,000 word counts I've yet to complete either novel into an acceptable conclusion. This year was practically a miracle seeing me get some stories - Welcome to Florida and The Hero Cleanup Protocol - self-published...
I could explain it away if I was distracted by work or by family. But I've been unemployed full-time the last two years (going on three), and my family is mostly off doing their things while I'm struggling with mine (and family have never really been major motivators in my writing projects, to be honest).
The unemployment issue is what worries me most: when I was working, I was stimulated with library work - research, above all - and that stimulation helped with getting some works off the word processor. Now, stressing out over each submitted resume and cover letter seems to dull my interest in getting writing work done. Even suggestions that I go into freelancing work (for websites like Guru or Examiner.com for example) somehow don't appeal to me even though there's a huge part of me that does. It's even part of the reason why I don't blog as much as I should: if I kept more active, I'd think I'd get more traffic here.
As for future projects... there's obviously NaNo in November. I've been given a heads-up about a 24-Hour Comics contest, hosted this year on Saturday October 1. I am/will be tempted to join in that.
Wish me luck.
Writers Block. I hate it. I have it.
There was a time when I spent a lot of it (time, that is) writing. Mostly fanfiction, back in the Nineties during my love affair with the television show The X-Files. Gossamer has an archive of most of what I wrote in terms of fanfic. For normal writing, regular fiction writing, I was focused on short stories mostly for writing contests. Eventually I coalesced the more coherent shorts into a smallish anthology Last of the Grapefruit Wars, which I published in 2003 through a Print-on-Demand service Xlibris.
And since then?
Most of my ambitious projects - actual novel writings, additional short story attempts for contests - don't go very far or very well. I've tried the 3-Day Novel contests for years to no avail... I've joined the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), and while the last two years I've "won" the months by hitting the 50,000 word counts I've yet to complete either novel into an acceptable conclusion. This year was practically a miracle seeing me get some stories - Welcome to Florida and The Hero Cleanup Protocol - self-published...
I could explain it away if I was distracted by work or by family. But I've been unemployed full-time the last two years (going on three), and my family is mostly off doing their things while I'm struggling with mine (and family have never really been major motivators in my writing projects, to be honest).
The unemployment issue is what worries me most: when I was working, I was stimulated with library work - research, above all - and that stimulation helped with getting some works off the word processor. Now, stressing out over each submitted resume and cover letter seems to dull my interest in getting writing work done. Even suggestions that I go into freelancing work (for websites like Guru or Examiner.com for example) somehow don't appeal to me even though there's a huge part of me that does. It's even part of the reason why I don't blog as much as I should: if I kept more active, I'd think I'd get more traffic here.
As for future projects... there's obviously NaNo in November. I've been given a heads-up about a 24-Hour Comics contest, hosted this year on Saturday October 1. I am/will be tempted to join in that.
Wish me luck.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Three-Day Novel: 2010 Attempt
It's 8:04 am. I am at the Panera Bread on the corner of Little Rd. and State Rd. 54. I am beginning the 3-Day Novel contest... NOW!
"It was in the spring of my youth that my father sat down and told me about this dream he had of turning into a giant insect." What, it's been done...?
"It was in the spring of my youth that my father sat down and told me about this dream he had of turning into a giant insect." What, it's been done...?
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