November 14th, 2009
The past few days have been heavy-going. Cutting NaNoWriMo out of my November equation has been a smart move but as with so many of the tasks and projects I take on, they grow to fill the space available to them. I’ve ramped up the painting to prepare for December and the business launch is [...]
November 11th, 2009
It’s now been a week since I typed anything for NaNoWriMo 2009 and I’m calling it off.
Between opening a business and getting ready for the art fair in December, I have to keep my focus on those two things and see them through properly. That’s why I haven’t written anything in a week… After the [...]
October 20th, 2009
NaNoWriMo time! I finished a novel draft just as the clock struck midnight last year and since November is almost upon us again, I got to thinking about how I can make 2009 more successful and less painful than 2008.
It’s the simple things that make a difference. Anything that distracts is bad news. Things that [...]
July 10th, 2009
By definition, there is no difference between gray and grey, but I’ve always found it confusing when faced with the choice of which variant to insert into my writing, a problem only made more difficult as an American expat in the UK. My language is a muddy mess from both shores of the Atlantic, but, [...]
July 8th, 2009
I had given myself permission to blow last night’s deadline if I needed to, but I finished the story and sent it off just before midnight. It was a good practise run, if nothing else, for the next deadline I have– the 10th. That one is far more daunting not because the requirements are any [...]
July 6th, 2009
Good morning, my bushy tailed comrades. This post is a brief one as I have several thousand words to put together and edit in the next couple of days. I really need to get this perverse deadline thing I do to myself checked out…
Two deadlines, less than 48 hours till the first one is a [...]
April 12th, 2009
Script Frenzy. I’ve stopped writing for it. It’s not that I don’t think I can do it — I know I can — but I have some more important stuff going on right now and cannot afford to be stressed and divided.
I’ve been having some focus and mania issues over the past week or so, [...]
April 7th, 2009
I really have given myself a doozy of a task with this Script Frenzy thing. After a particularly rubbish brain day yesterday, I had a late evening “thinking bath” where I hatched the only good idea for the script I’d had all day.
Neil has reminded me that not only am I writing a script on [...]
