Battling self-doubt
Hello, everyone. Last week I only worked for 60% of my goal time. Once again I face my own doubts about my ability to finish a project, or finish it up to my standards. And once again, when faced with … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Meta
Never gonna stop
This is my final check-in for the first iteration of Round of Words 2016. My plan is to continue with my current five-day-a-week work goal during the ROW80 break, and I will still check-in here on Monday mornings. For me, … Continue reading →
A thing I learned this week
While working on an illustration this past week, I had an odd experience. The picture I’m working on has been going well. It’s the first illustration that will have color in it, as it’s meant to be part of a … Continue reading →
What I’ve been up to
Hello, everyone. I’m still writing. Just wanted to let you know that. Since I decided I had to let go of word counts, I’ve been somewhat aimless. My own process has been unclear to me, the way to produce actual … Continue reading →
Getting in my own way
Really, you can count on this happening with me almost every time. After two weeks of really solid progress, I got nothing useful done this week (laundry doesn’t count!). It’s not that I didn’t have time, because I honestly have … Continue reading →
Time to catch up
As I feared the holidays combined with the big computer crash ate up last week and I basically got very little done. Go me! So for this week I’m adding last week’s deficit to this week’s word count goal. I … Continue reading →
Busy week
I’m doing well on the ROW80 goals for the week. With nearly 700 new words written I’ve officially hit the 25% mark on my arbitrary book widget and am on track to easily hit a thousand words this week. And … Continue reading →
Back on track
Writing goes well this week. I’m already over 700 words in, so on track to get my 1500 for this week to make up for last week’s deficit. And my mind is full of ideas and paragraphs for what needs … Continue reading →
What I did on my summer vacation
When we last left our intrepid author (that’s me), she had met with an extreme failure of something — courage or imagination or stamina — and found herself in the midst of several writing projects, unable to move forward with … Continue reading →
Updating the “Resources” page
My Resources for Self-Publishers page gets steady use. It’s always fun to see the page views jump when someone new finds it and explores the links. It does need some updating, though, so over the next week or two I’ll … Continue reading →