This week was both surprising and challenging. My daily writer’s meditation and novel writing habit almost got me through some very freezing weather and surprise snow, and my feeling of impending doom from world politics. My morning stretching and exercise followed by meditation has really changed my relationship with my body. I’m listening to myContinue reading “A Year of Finishing Novels: Surprises & Set-backs”
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A Year of Finishing Novels: Rewards and Celebrations
I tried again to do a Sunday week in review post, and again my work wouldn’t load, so Monday is my Year of Finishing Novels posts day. I am not going to waste time fighting with my internet. My time is for writing novels and reaching my goals. And sharing my progress and what I’mContinue reading “A Year of Finishing Novels: Rewards and Celebrations”
A Year of Finishing Novels: Designing Habits
I wanted to get this post out yesterday for my new habit of Sunday Assessment and Accountability, but my internet was ridiculously slow and not loading the site, then not loading this page, so I stopped trying to force it. There was no point in fighting and making myself miserable when the information is justContinue reading “A Year of Finishing Novels: Designing Habits”
A Year of Finishing Novels: The first tiny steps
For my year of finishing novels, my first step was identifying where I became derailed in the past. I identified three areas where I would like to make changes: 1. Sleep 2. Hormonal Imbalance 3. Priorities. I read books in these three areas and looked for simple steps I could implement right away. Mindset MatchesContinue reading “A Year of Finishing Novels: The first tiny steps”
The Planner Experiment: Second Week of June
This week, I had a tough time choosing journals for the planner. I’m not sure why, but I found it extra challenging. I ended up with an eclectic group of journals ranging from the well established like the Chicago Review which celebrated 50 years in print to the brand new Visions a graphically-oriented science fictionContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: Second Week of June”
The Planner Experiment: Final Week of May and Finding Poetry
I prepared the pages early this week and then spaced posting them yesterday, sorry. 2019 Planner May Week Five Last Week I finally typed up the ten unpublished poems from NaPoWriMo. I’m letting them sit a bit before I edit them. At the moment I’m not as excited about them as I had hoped toContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: Final Week of May and Finding Poetry”
The Planner Experiment: May Week Four
Most of this week’s magazine submission ideas came from New Pages. New Pages Call for Submissions pages can let you know about brand new magazines and other interesting markets. It can be fun to be one of the first writer’s published in a magazine. I’m excited about Alien Magazine, a new literary magazine coming outContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: May Week Four”
The Planner Experiment: May Week Three – New idea for writing prompts
Finding writing prompts in old movies The other day, while thinking about which classic monster I wanted to put in space for the Monsters in Space anthology, I remembered I have a copy of Little Shop of Horrors, the black and white, non-musical with Jack Nicholson. I also needed to come up with some writingContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: May Week Three – New idea for writing prompts”
The Planner Experiment: May Week 2
My new focus on contests brought me to something fun. Literary Taxidermy is having a contest in which participants write a story that starts and ends with lines from a selected work. This year’s selection is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The idea of the contest is to start with the first line of Mr.Continue reading “The Planner Experiment: May Week 2”
The Planner Experiment: The Second Quarter
Here we are. It’s the end of March, the end of the first quarter of the year. A good time to review our progress and create new goals for the next quarter. We’ve finally left winter behind and this quarter, April, May, and June will lead us from spring into summer. There will be moreContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: The Second Quarter”
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