From the monthly archives:

January 2005

On setting goals

27 January 2005

Here’s the thing about writers – some are single,others are newly married (I’m at less than a year and a half – do I still count?), some have five kids or grand kids, some work 40+ hours a week, others stay at home, and everything in between. In other words, huge diversity.
In such diversity, is [...]

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Goals for this year

26 January 2005

Okay, I’ll throw mine out into the mix.

Win NaNoWriMo
Participate in at least 8 BIWs
Finish 3 first drafts this year
Finish editing Black Light and 1 other novel

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Planning to write a novel

14 January 2005

It’s time for me to get serious about writing again. It’s not like I have to work on writing 8 hours a day. It’s not like I could. As a creative process, it’s not something that I can just jump into. It’s like a muscle. I need to work on writing for, oh, an hour [...]

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Planning a Novel

13 January 2005

One writing site I frequent, WVU, has a writing course – F150, Design Your Own Novel Program, suggests the following for a set-yer-own-schedule writing plan.
Marathon Novel Writing Program – 30 days or less:

30 days of writing

Fast Track Program:

1 week planning
1 week research
6 weeks writing

Standard Program:

1 week research
2 weeks character development
2 weeks structure planning
1 week research
5 [...]

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Black Light – the edit

11 January 2005

83,323 words
374,285 characters, no spaces
463,242 characters, with spaces
2445 paragraphs
9545 lines
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Looking for writing support?

11 January 2005

We have writing goals going on all month long over at MAD Challenge.  So if you’re looking for writing companionship when BIW is over, you can always join us over there. 
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NaNoWriMo 2006
NaNoWriMo 2008
2008 Goals

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Law, Death Registration, and Identity Theft – info required for a novel

10 January 2005

It’s for my novel "Black Light."
I have some holes I need to fill, or possible irregularities that need to be corrected. Here’s the scoop.
The story is set in Canada. British Columbia. While I don’t state that outright in the book, I’m just tellin’ ya. It’s science fiction – big surprise. But it’s set in the [...]

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Which author are you?

4 January 2005

Which author are you?
Me? I’m @#$@#!Arthur C. Clarke. Damn!
He lives in Sri Lanka. Cinnamon Gardens. Fahim’s met him, interviewed him 4 times for various magazines. He’s offered to take me over there to meet the guy, and my response was "I wouldn’t know what to say." Fahim immediately replied with "It doesn’t matter. The guy’s [...]

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January 2005 BIW

2 January 2005

I’m planning on not participating in the January BIW.  Things are a little crazy here, and I can’t count on getting any writing novel-wise done, and I suspect it would be downright certifiably insane of me to try.  I’ll be happy if I can merely keep my blog up to date with all the disaster [...]

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