Semi-Annual Blog Post

Thursday, 10 December 2009, 23:17 | Category : NaNoWriMo, Writing
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So I’m right on schedule: it’s been about six months since I blogged here.  What’s that?  Other people blog every day, sometimes more than once a day?  Well shit. I think I suffer from boxitis.  What is this blog for? I ask myself repeatedly.  No one answers, so it becomes about nothing except the crickets [...]

Whining Gets You Nowhere

Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 7:00 | Category : Productivity, Writing
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For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of whining about writing lately, especially on Here to Create. Sorry about that. I whine that I’m not revising the project I should be, that all my shorts turn into sagas, and on and on. But the problem is that I’m overthinking instead of writing. I know [...]

Fear of Success

Monday, 11 May 2009, 11:59 | Category : Productivity, Writing
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Alison Kent posted at Genreality today about Getting Out of Your Own Way: The Fear of Success. Why, hello.  *waves at self in the mirror* Good to know I’m not the only one.  Of course, I may have no need to fear success, since I keep sabotaging myself so that I’ll never have to try [...]

Drowning in a Sea of Words

Wednesday, 6 May 2009, 7:00 | Category : Productivity, Writing
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The problem is, none of the words are related to the revision I’m supposed to be doing.  There’s nothing like something I’m supposed to do to give me a million ideas for other things I want to do.  Until I start the project I supposedly want to do, and it becomes something I have to [...]

Revision Choke

Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 7:00 | Category : Writing
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I know what needs done, I swear.  But it’s not happening on its own.  Sure, I’ve had plenty of good excuses.  I’m finishing up grad school this semester . . . um, there must have been some other good excuses?  Anyway, I finished the rough draft of CODENAME: Werewolves in February.  I let it sit [...]