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#FirstDraft120: Only Nine Days Left! | #amwriting

I’ve gotten in a bad habit of not posting here regularly, and that’s on my list of goals I need to revisit and do better with in 2017. Just like doing something writing related for an hour each day. I’ve done okay with that revised FD120 goal—I’ve spent a lot of time revisiting and revising/updating […]

#FirstDraft120 Day 101: Timer Tuesday (New Year, Revised Goals) | #amwriting #1k1hr

Moving forward with our “New Year, Revised Goals” theme for the remainder of FD120, our challenge on Timer Tuesdays will be to schedule and complete a solid one-hour block of writing-related work during the day. If you’re still working on a word-count goal for your first draft, please continue with a regular 1k1hr sprint, if […]

#FirstDraft120 Day 100: Monday Momentum–A Literary Agent on PASSION for Writing | #amwriting

Now that I’m back from my holiday travels and sitting at my own desk with my brand-new laptop all set up and ready to go, it’s time to get back on track for our final push of FirstDraft120! As a reminder, here are the regular “events” during the week: Monday: Motivation for building momentum Tuesday: […]

#FirstDraft120 Day 97: Check in for SWAT Day! (New Year, Revised Goals) | #amwriting

It’s Friday! And that means I want to know about your full writing week. What were your greatest successes during the week? What was your favorite line/bit that you wrote? What did you learn about yourself, your characters, and/or your story during the week’s work? What are you most proud of yourself for doing this […]

#FirstDraft120 Day 96: THORsday Thursday (New Year, Revised Goals) | #amwriting #handwriting

On Thursdays, we do an alternate version of Timer Tuesday—instead of challenging ourselves to sit at the computer and try to crank out as many words as fast as we can, the challenge is to get away from the computer. What Does THORsday Mean? It’s pretty simple. Our writing challenge for today is: Timed Handwritten […]

#FirstDraft120 Day 95: Story Bible Update/Story Idea Notebook | #amwriting

As a reminder for those still keeping up with the FirstDraft120 challenge, Wednesday is the day to review your story bible and see what needs to be updated or revised. If you’ve gotten out of touch with what’s in your story bible, today would be a good day to do a quick skim of all […]

2017 Reading Challenge Goal(s), Challenge(s), and List(s) #amreading

As you may have seen on Sunday, I posted the results of my 2016 Reading Challenge (I use Goodreads to track this—I’ve linked all the titles in the list to my review/status-update page on GR; most with a text review have also been posted here on the blog, so you’ve probably seen them.) My goal […]

#FirstDraft120 Day 94: Timer Tuesday! (New Year, Revised Goals) #amwriting #1k1hr

Happy New Year! Moving forward with our “New Year, Revised Goals” theme for the remainder of FD120, our challenge on Timer Tuesdays will be to schedule and complete a solid one-hour block of writing-related work during the day. If you’re still working on a word-count goal for your first draft, please continue with a regular […]

Books Read in 2016: A Recap of My Reading Challenge #amreading #bookreport

This year, I decided that for my reading challenge, I’d do an A to Z challenge. You can see how I came up with it here. (As for the other part of my challenge with the books for my grad school reading group, it petered out about halfway through the six-month list of books.) Now […]

Goodbye, 2016. Hello, 2017. New Year, Revised Goals.

As I look back over the past twelve months, with as much stress as it’s brought, I have to be proud of myself. I’ve read more books this year (for pleasure) than I have in more than a decade. I’ve lost weight (about 40 pounds). And I’ve done more blogging and fiction writing this year […]