Category: Writing

Posts about writing. Writing is my work but since I work better when I pretend work isn’t work, I mostly call it fun—even when it isn’t. ;)

Progress: May 10–11, Weekend

Lynn

Not much writing done over the weekend, but like I said a while back, weekends just don’t seem to be good writing days most weeks. This was one of those weeks.

Saturday I made it to 337 pretty early, but then never got back to it.

Sunday I didn’t write a word of fiction although I did write a nice, long note to myself about the coming weekdays and what I need to get done. :D It was boring number crunching so I’m not going to bother repeating any of it here.

My conclusion: I need to pick up some serious speed. :D To get to one million words of fiction in 2014, I’m going to have to start averaging almost 3,900 a day. Since I’m not writing much on the weekends at the moment, that means I’ve got to start having some killer good weekdays. Possible, just not likely if I don’t do something different than I’ve been doing.

Progress: May 9, Friday

Lynn

—Working to increase my daily average word count

Made it to 1,175 after a 4 hour midday interruption. Thought I was going to come home and write but I didn’t feel well, and in fact, I never did feel better, so I just ended up reading a book.

9:28 am: 452
10:58 am: 939
3:08 pm: 1,101
3:49 pm: 1,175

 

WIFI is hard to resist ;)

Lynn

WIFI is hard to resist! Why else would I be online right now when I intended to try to write for another half hour?

Getting the WIFI turned off is the easy part—keeping it turned off is where I’m running into problems.

And once it’s on, there’s always just … one … more … little … thing … to … check. Just one more.

Progress: May 6, Tuesday

Lynn

—Working to increase my daily average word count

Writing day cut short, but I made it to 887.

Probably should’ve written more, but suffice to say I didn’t get back to writing tonight. I could now, I guess, but I’m exhausted. Sleepy-time I think. ;)

Progress: May 5, Monday

Lynn

—Working to increase my daily average word count

Currently at 2,221.

I’d hoped to be further along today, but I guess it’s just been one of those days. :D

Maybe I’ll get one more chance to up my count.

Made it to 2,346.

Progress: May 2, Friday

Lynn

—Working to increase my daily average word count

Crashed at 1,882.

Really wanted to get to 2k, but I just didn’t make it.

I’ve really got to get some publishing tasks done this weekend. I have books to get into print that should’ve been in print months ago, and I have a short story that’s been done since the 15th, which I said would be ready in a couple of weeks back on the 4th-ish of April. Those weeks are long gone and it’s time to get that formatting done and get that story published!

I should set aside a day and just format stuff all day! It might be sorta fun to just dig in like that. ;)

First Sales on Google Play

Lynn

I finally had my first sales on Google Play! Considering my books are priced at >$8 apiece because of Google’s habit of discounting, I’m tickled someone thought the series worthy. Book 1 of one of my series was purchased on the 29th of April, then books 2 and 3 were purchased on the 30th.

Took long enough! But finally I feel like my effort putting my books up there wasn’t wasted. :D

As for setting up an account on Google Play, it was a pain, but the actual process of adding books and uploading? Really simple. Probably on par with Kobo Writing Life or Nook Press, except there’s no preview of any kind. You just upload your cover image and your EPUB (and/or a PDF if you want). I have a PDF for all but my last upload.

I probably won’t bother with PDFs in the future—ah, never mind. I do a PDF for OMNI Lit/ARe, so I will probably keep doing them for the novels that I also have there. I don’t put everything over there, because I just can’t be bothered with the short stuff—you know, thinking about it now, I probably should. I might sell a copy or two. But I’ve been saying that for a while and I haven’t done it yet.

Ah well. Someday, maybe. ;)

Progress: May 1, Tuesday

Lynn

—Working to increase my daily average word count

Final count : 2,874

Still trying to write 800–1,000 words on 5 to 6 stories each day; still not succeeding most of the time.

I deleted a lot of words today so this is a great word count, IMO! :) If I take those deleted words into account, my new words for the day was more like 3,800 (I deleted around 1,000 or so).

Progress: April 30, Wednesday

Lynn

—Working to increase my daily average word count

Made it to 1,679 words for the day

Here’s the thing. I’m writing “Writing Journal” posts in Evernote, but they ramble, and go on way too long, and feel a little personal at times, so I think I’m just going to skip posting them and include only my word counts, and maybe a short note or two in these progress posts. :D It’s for the best, promise! You’d get really bored reading them.

Progress: April 29, Tuesday

Lynn

WIFI off.

—Working to increase my daily average word count.

Hmm. Made it to 327 words.

Don’t ask me why that was all I got done. I have no idea. At least I’m writing! :D

Scratch that. I think it’s lack of sleep. There were a lot of storms last night, the power was out for a few hours, and I just didn’t get much sleep. I’m tired, and that really explains everything. I’d lay around and nap, but I really need to get some writing done!

Also, something’s interfering with my ability to make reasoned, future-beneficial choices in the moment, and then stick to them.