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Staying Motivated

Its day 11 of NaNoWriMo and Ive cracked the 23K mark. The 11th day, the second week, is when many people get discouraged, and fade. How do you stay motivated? Here are my suggestions.

Find a place and time and write consistently.  Nope. Nope. I say again, nope!  This is not motivation. This is how you build a habit. Writing at the same time and place leads to boredom. If youre bored, you wont do your best work. Write when and where you can. Write on the bus. Write at work (during lunch or...

Habits

NaNoWriMo 2019 has begun. This is my tenth time. It doesnt feel that long ago that I heard about NaNoWriMo and tried completing a whole novel in thirty days. Sure, Id written before, but never to a deadline. The first year was grueling. I had words to write, and words to count and the closer I came to the daily goal of 1667 words the slower the words seemed to come. The result was not all that great.

Over time, I learned to let go of tracking the word count after every sentence (or word) and...

“What is your story about?”

What is your story about? 

Its an interesting question and depending upon who asks it, you need to have a good answer.

First, have a story and know what it is. If you dont, you are in no position to answer the question. Figure out what your story is. Then figure out what your story is about.

I guess I should explain the distinction. 

When a friend asks you, What is your story about?, they want to hear what happens in your story, the events of the story. 

Well, there is this girl, Jen, and she has...

I’m Getting Ready For NaNoWriMo Again

Halloween is a week away. Whats scarier? NaNoWriMo is also next week.

Im trying to juggle cats these last 12 days. Im working on getting the fourth, and final, book in what I call The Roland Targus series pushed out for publication. I have a cover and am just working on getting the book formatted properly for Blurb®. Im not sure I will stick with them for my next book. They are a good self-publishing platform, but overprice the end result.

If you are wondering, here is the cover:

Im also...