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July 19, 2009
REPOST: ISBW #120 – Don't Be an Ass! / Matthew Wayne Selznick Interview
For some reason iTunes did not grab this mp3, so I'm reposting it. If you're getting it again via another feed reader, I apologize. See show notes here.
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Burnout and links
Last week on Monday and Tuesday I felt great. Energetic, productive, creative. I was able to do contract work and my own work and ISBW content and all sorts of things. I wrote thousands of words, I did housework and errands, I thought I was on a roll. But then I crashed on Wednesday and have been barely productive for the rest of the week. I was puzzled till I realized I had burned out. I pushed it too hard.
I do this most often when I'm sick. I'll get sick, then start to feel better and think, '
July 17, 2009
July 15, 2009
I Should Be Writing- the PDF
In the feed you will find the first document in a series I'm releasing called, strangely enough, I Should Be Writing. You will get periodic files from me expounding on what I talk about on the show. It will probably be enough to eventually release as an ebook, but for now you'll get it in free PDF form.
In this PDF:
Intro- my writing past.
Chapter 1- It's OK to suck
Interlude: Excuses 1
This is released under a CC BY-NC-SA license. Please feel free to print, distribute, even change as long as yo
July 14, 2009
Personal Effects Downloads!
Personal Effects: Dark Art
Download JC Hutchins' Personal Effects Party Pack: A PDF with party ideas to further enhance the awesomeness of Personal Effects: Dark Art.
While you're at it, download the first four chapters of the book (in the feed), get the first episode of Personal Effects: Sword of Blood, or enter to win the actual Sword of Blood, a collaboration between Matt Wallace and JC!
ISBW #122 Antagonists / JC Hutchins Interview
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July 13, 2009
Links and stuff. Pants. You know.
Pants report- not much pants on the weekend, spent time in sweatpants doing yardwork or being lazy with the family. It's a weekend. I did pants up to go to a party, though. But today, I got up early to finish a freelance project, then worked out, then PANTS before noon.
Writing report- around 4000 words on a freelance project over the weekend and today.
Links links links! I'm too freaked with deadlines to make a big blog post, but these people have a lot to talk about:
Good writing skills are taughJuly 9, 2009
Calling myself out
My husband is sick.
My house is a mess.
My power is out.
My Internet is out.
I'm angry.
I'm tired.
I've already written something else today.
I need more than the 15 min I have to get into the story.
I have to go pick up the kid from camp.
I have a headache.
I have errands to run.
These are the reasons I haven't written as much as I wanted to this week. They're all true.
And they're all bull****.
Other people's deadlines. Pants report.
I was talking to a good friend of mine today who is a personal coach. I don't employ her officially but I know when we get talking about career, I do trust her opinions. We talked about my difficulty in focusing, and she asked me if I had a time in the past when I focused well, and what made that happen. That was easy.
Other people's deadlines.
It's not just the promise of paying work, it's someone else counting on me. For example, I have a sponsor for ISBW now, but it's still tough to get on a r
