Next weekend marks the start of the vacation I used to set a deadline for myself weeks ago when life wasn't so hard. Today I have to admit, I am nowhere near reaching the finish line. In the last week I have started writing again which is good, but it's too little, too late. At … Continue reading Well, here we are.
The time it's hardest to write is when your heart is broken. Not sad, notdown, broken. The idea that heavy emotions are good for writing is ridiculouslywrong. It's only helpful when you finally crawl out of the pit and can reflect.When the pain hits, you're curled into a ball, trying to survive. It's not thetime … Continue reading Love is Always Worth The Price
Fellow parents will back me up on this, the end of the school year is the ultimate test of both your stamina and time management. So many tasks, performances and deadlines that we long for June with all our might. It's all rush, rush, rush to the last day. The last few weeks I've been … Continue reading Maybe I Need a Deadline
I thought I'd use this week's blog to recommend some of the tips, tricks, and aids I use in writing. I'm not talking about development edits etc. Those you gotta shell out some serious cash for. Instead, these are accessible, easy ways to boost your ability to get thoughts out of your head and into … Continue reading Tools for writing
I decided to stop counting the weeks. I've managed to do better than my original goal of blogging at least monthly. It seems the object of that project is achieved, I now spend time writing daily. Even if it's hard, unproductive or a bit demoralizing, I still sit at the keyboard every night with my … Continue reading Words on the Page
So, you may have noticed that there was no post last week. I let my anxiety get the better of me and I had an entirely unproductive week outside of my day job. My house didn’t get clean, I wrote maybe 1k words, I focused all my energy on getting the necessary stuff done and … Continue reading Week ? Oops.
The book is up to 35k. It's a stat that's easy to see when working in MS Word, it's right there at the bottom of the page. But I'm writing this book in Scrivener where you have to select an option and wait for a few seconds while it gets you the total. I don't … Continue reading Week Twelve: Tools of the Trade
The book is up to 31k words. Phew. Last week was rough so this week I focused on cutting a scene I knew wasn't working and starting over with a new point of view. Sometimes a scene is a mess because I'm writing from the wrong person's head. Switching POV changes the voice and can … Continue reading Week Eleven: The Way Forward
I added net 0 words this past week. I edited so much that my word count didn't increase. I'm not sure they were even necessary edits. This isn't really writing, it's more fussing with the text than anything else. It's procrasti-writing: going back over what I've already finished and cleaning it up when I have … Continue reading Week Ten: It Is What It Is
I made it to 28k this week which is not bad, but it's not great either. My writing sessions are still productive, but it's harder work. I've been here before. We're in the middle bit now where things start slowing down and you have to push harder to get the words on the page. I'm … Continue reading Week Nine: One Step in Front of the Other
Christa MacDonald 