I talked with my friend Tabitha the other day. We are working on cowriting something. We’re preliminary stages, talking about plot points, character biographies, settings, what we are willing and not willing to do. The discussion moved from there to where I am with Chaos Wolf and my various short stories. I told her I […]
It’s been six months since I made my New Years Resolutions. Here’s an update on where I stand with them – Write more consistently every day. I’ve just gotten back into the habit, as mentioned in an earlier post. I’m up to doing a minimum of 350 words a day. Finish a final draft of
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My biggest ambition when I was in elementary school gym class was to walk the balance beam. The balance beam in question was part of an obstacle course. You climbed a set of stairs on a wooden structure with three twenty foot beams. You had an option of picking one that was eighteen inches, twenty-four
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My New Year’s Resolutions for 2014 in regards to writing: Write more consistently every day I was able to do the 1,667 word count for NaNoWriMo. But I wrote nothing except some blog related content for the first week of December due to burnout. I won’t be able to maintain a NaNoWriMo pace, but I
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My name is Sheryl Hayes, and I battle with depression. I was diagnosed with clinical depression in my early twenties. I have struggled with managing it on and off ever since. I have been on anti-depressant medications, but I have not had to take them for the last ten years. I have both a family
I have to admit that my focus in the month of October has not been on editing my story. It’s not for a lack of desire. It’s lack of time. Even though I was not working on my novel, I was have been busy with novel related activities. Sometime during the second week of October
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And the word is sitzfleisch. Sitzfleich means to sit through or tolerate something boring. Its secondary definition is to endure or persist in a task. I first came across the term at The Write Practice. I had no clue there was a word to describe slogging through something I would rather be not be doing. Right
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Shortly before I left on vacation, I finished draft three of my novel. Shortly after that, I finished knitting a scarf. As I ran my fingers over the scarf to search for any loose ends to sew in, I was struck by the difference I felt between the two accomplishments. When I knit, I am
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I’ve been kicking around my ideas of how to know when I’ve “made it” as a writer, that glorious moment I will no longer feel like a pretender among the professionals. The big problem is that “making it” seems to be a moving target when I put some thought about it. I have a sneaking
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