Category: drafting
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Life, Death, and NaNoWriMo, Pt 2
I have options. I could write another standalone, one that’s been percolating for a year or two. Or I could write Book 14. Ah. That Book 14. It’s starting to be a problem.
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What Happened When I Wrote Fifteen Books In Twenty Months.
“I’m taking a break,” I tell friends. “A long break. It’s not writer’s block — the ideas are still there — but there’s no connection and no spark. I think I’ve been pushing too hard for too long. I’ve hit a wall.” It happens. Apparently.
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How I Wrote Ten Books In A Year
The theory went like this: Thirty thousand words a week for three and a half weeks, one week off, rinse and repeat. Honestly, it was a joke. I didn’t seriously think I could do it.
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Life, Death, and NaNoWriMo
I gave myself time. Slept in and walked and laughed and cried, and considered ideas for new stories with a heavy heart and leaden fingers. I wasn’t ready yet. Maybe I would never be ready.
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My Year Of Writing Dangerously
So I spent the last year writing. Twelve months exactly. 365 days. I started on July 1st, 2017. I stopped on June 30th, 2018. In that time, and I can hardly believe it myself, I wrote 10 books and 4 novellas for a combined total of 1,143,202 words…
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Wordcounts and Waiting
I stepped back. I physically put my laptop down and went for a walk outside in the sunshine. I fought down that nagging voice at the back of my mind that says /you should be writing/. And I reminded myself that it takes as long as it takes.
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Climbing Art Mountain
I’m trying not to romanticise the process, so a few caveats: I work fourteen hours a week at day jobs, which gives me enough money to survive. I’m often up and writing at 5am. I frequently pull twelve- or even fourteen-hour days to hit the big wordcounts. I have my routine down-pat but the routine…
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#thatfeelingwhen…
…I’ve been writing action scenes all day, the secondhand adrenaline is killing me, and now I have to leave my characters hanging halfway down a lift shaft getting shot at because I’ve done 12k words today and my brain can’t word anymore. Sorry, guys. Back at 5am tomorrow, don’t die until I get there.
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Process Update (& New Series: Book 7)
The writing process is always evolving. I never dreamed I could get to this point…
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How I Wrote A Book In Three Weeks (With Stats)
There is no magic formula. It really is all about finding your own process. Find what works for you. All I can do is tell you a few of the factors that are working for me…
E.G. Wilson 