Day Six of NaNoWriMo and I’ve gotten a few emails/messages asking about my word count on the NaNoWriMo site. It was registering as zero up until the other day. I know I can be slow and/or procrastinator, but I have written more than zero days! Seems I was entering my word count incorrectly somehow. That word count thing on the website is counterintuitive and/or broken. At any rate, I’ve adjusted my total word count to date which as of Monday […]
After six years of writing books for a living, I’m finally taking the plunge that is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo as the cool kids call it. Basically, you write a 50,000 word (or more) novel in November and post regular word counts so other writers (and readers, if they’re so inclined) can follow along. The idea is that being part of this big public thing, along with many thousands of other writers, plus the public accountability of posting […]
As with any job, sometimes writing has its good days. Other times, not so good days. One of the questions I most get from non-writers, and even some writers who have a hard time coming up with ideas they want to write about, is where do you get your ideas? But a story isn’t JUST an idea. There’s a lot more to it, and I figured I’d share my process from start to finish of how a story is born. […]
Categories: The Process, writing
I’m not sure how long you’ve been following me, but before I was writing books to scare the crap out of you, I was a cartoonist. Cartooning actually led me back into writing, which is a kind of a cool story. I started a comic strip back in 1999 or 2000, back in the early early days of online comics, and built a decent following over the years. I poured my heart into the comic strip, but in order to […]
Categories: art, fatherhood, writing
Do you find yourself getting distracted a lot while trying to get in your word count for the day? This is something I’ve struggled with a lot. Distractions can come in many forms, and they always start out innocently enough. I’m waiting for an email, so I check the inbox so often. But rather than ignore all the email that’s not the one or two I’m waiting for, I go through them all. Then I’ll see one I should really […]
Categories: The Process, writing • Tags: discipline, pomodoro, time, word counts
