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How Much Blog is Enough Blog? Or; how I doubled my fiction output in just one month!

I've been doing some reassessing (as well as a lot of fiction writing!), and both are part of the reason I haven't been posting to my blog much lately. I've met tons of wonderful people through the blogosphere, but at some point I realized I was spending way too much time on this stuff, to the detriment of my fiction production. While I was reassessing, I read couple of posts that really struck a chord with me. In "Blog ennui and platforms built of bodies" Susan Bischoff summed up pretty...

Smashwords and Nanowrimo

I've mentioned any number of times goals of "getting this or that up on Smashwords." I haven't followed through on very many of those goals, but today I got my first Paypal payment from Smashwords! It wasn't much, barely enough for a dinner out, but perhaps it will motivate me to follow through on a few more of those ebook goals.

The other motivator at the moment is Nanowrimo, that collective writing insanity that goes on during November. I wasn't intending to do Nano this year, but then, so ...

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Monkey

That's the name of a story that just sold to Daily Science Fiction — one of the pieces I mentioned submitting in my last blog entry. Which means less than a week between submission and acceptance. Woo hoo!

Apparently it's a good thing that I added "getting my stories out on the market again" to my list of goals. I haven't sold a short story for months now, but neither have I been writing or submitting much short fiction, as evidenced by the backlog accumulated that I mentioned in my last...

Progress Report

I fell a bit behind on my word count goals this week, for a number of reasons. Besides an autumn cold and some extra hours emergency babysitting of my granddaughter, the main thing that slowed down new word count was several collaborative stories that all arrived at about the same time and that required revision and response. Since one of them is a requested rewrite, I'm not complaining — a prospect of publication is always good!

Goal check:

- Write 5000 words a week – Only a little over...