Goals and Motivation
Because this blog’s about procrastination, too
A funny thing just happened to me.
I was procrastinating about getting a bit of work done - or I could fudge that and say I was taking a bit of a break after getting a stack of work done this morning (that’s true - I wrote my first 2,500 words for NaNoWriMo and also did [...]
Maybe Comotivate will motivate me
While I’m still working on revising my first manuscript (more on that later - it’s going well!), I’m trying to get going with novel #2 as well. I was about to write “trying to get disciplined” about writing novel #2, but I remembered a recent Zen Habits post with the enticing (if sensationalist) title The [...]
An egg timer of writing per day: Inspiration from Jeffrey Archer
One of the podcasts I regularly listen to (see - I promised I’d be listening to more podcasts again soon) is actually produced by a huge chain book store that I actually don’t really like that much, but their podcast series is great. I guess I have to tell you what I’m talking about - [...]
Unspectacular beginning to writer buddy system
So … yesterday was the first deadline in our writing buddy system. Both my buddy Katrina and I had spectacularly disorganised weeks last week with the odd drama and hiccup thrown in for good measure, and failed to meet our deadline yesterday. Instead, we ate cheesecake together. (Baked cheesecake, the best kind).
However, we are not [...]
A big lack of writing motivation
So far, it’s really been one of those weeks. My paid writing gets done only because a deadline is looming; my poor fiction writing has only got a couple of looks in and only in the form of me opening up a Word file and leaving it open most of the day, hoping that seeing [...]
A real plan for the Bratislava novel, and a buddy system
So, I’m determined to finish a great draft of this novel I’m setting in Bratislava by the end of the year. Originally I’d thought of making it my NaNoWriMo novel in November, but there’s two reasons I’ve decided against that: firstly, my sister-in-law and brother-in-law will be visiting from Switzerland for the first part of [...]
Success with NaBloPoMo and a Google Page Rank
Woo-hoo! It’s the end of July, and observant readers will see that I have a post for every day in July. That means I have successfully completed my NaBloPoMo challenge to post each day for a month. Admittedly I didn’t always write each post on the day and a little bit of pre-posting and post-posting [...]
Over halfway through my NaBloPoMo
Did anybody notice that I’ve been posting awfully regularly here recently? I’ve certainly noticed and I’m more than a little proud of myself that we’re well past the halfway point of July, my personal NaBloPoMo month, and so far I have kept my goal of posting every day for a month.
The interesting thing is that [...]
Becoming A Fiction Writer scores a century
Sorry to all non-Commonwealth nations there for using a cricket metaphor … but I’m an Aussie and I grew up on cricket, so my blog can score a century if I want it to!
What I’m trying to say is that this is the 100th post on Becoming A Fiction Writer, which I started back in [...]
183 goals are too many for me
I just stumbled across a nice blog called Project 183, written by a refreshingly normal-sounding guy from Melbourne who decided he would make a public list of 183 goals he wanted to achieve before he turned 30 (he’s 25 now). You know I love the idea of publicising my goals because that makes me more [...]