Category: writing as a business
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Good wordcount, a good concept… but, jury duty willing, tomorrow I’ll be doing a fair amount of fixing
Yesterday’s jury duty message was, boiled down, “Call again today.” So at 5:30 tonight, I’ll find out whether I’ll be working tomorrow or not. Meanwhile, instead of my daily short fast (from the night before until around 4 or 5 PM, when I eat my daily meal) — I’m doing a long fast. For folks…
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The past visits my main character’s present, and she meets a piece of her father. 1297 words, 15,501 total
I’m still ahead of my target completion date for finishing the first draft, though I’m only gaining ground in little bites. Little bites, though, are repeatable — and a lot more fun than running up against “to hit my deadline, today I have to write 10,000 words.” I’ve done that before. It’s an exercise in…
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1286 words, and a nice twist in the story.
I got my 1250 words with a few extra today, though it took longer than three hours, and there are a fair list of things I didn’t get done… and that I’ll have to do tomorrow, so there might not be any (or many) words Thursday. What I got was hard going, but I like…
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Ohio #3: Net gain of 1079 words … and quick notes about The Emerald Sun and the Moon & Sun series
As always, I started out the morning by doing a quick read-through of what I got the day before, doing light edits (and sometimes removing stuff that does not work), and then rolling from there into writing the new scene. I lost a chunk of words to having managed to say the same thing twice…
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On jury standby — so I wrote 1279 more words, and discovered the answers to a couple of grim secrets
The court did not need me today. I’ll have to call the private number each evening before the next session for the next two weeks to see if I need to report the next day. So every word I get for the next two weeks is literally on borrowed time. I owe it to the…
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I’m off my game — had a bad writing day. 486 words.
So here’s the deal. I have jury duty coming up next Monday. Have never done it before, but I didn’t try to get out of it. I’m a citizen. This is part of what being a citizen means. So if there’s an upcoming trial scheduled during my period of service, (which I won’t know until…
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Tougher day than expected: 1106 words, a bit of ripping out… and the whiff of “big bad”
I always start my words by reading through what I wrote the day before, and fixing a few typos, and getting myself back into the voice of the book — And I discovered I’d been redundant yesterday, repeating a fair amount of material across a break between two chapters. So I started out the morning…
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Mondays, Death, and Taxes: Life’s Sure Things
I did not get everything done on taxes over the weekend — and being self-employed is not anything like working a 9-to-5 job where you get money back. When you’re self-employed, you always owe. Making sure you find and identify the receipts for everything that was deductible, therefore, is a critical and damned stressful task.…
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Today is brought to you by math…
This isn’t the way I want to spend a Friday, but I cannot ignore the fact that I have to sort all my receipts, mark every single item that is deductible, gather up all the papers, pack them up, and get the box to my accountant. Even really shitty years produce a stack of paperwork,…