Tag: word count
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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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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…
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The Lie Of The Art Plateau: My Wordcount Progress Over The Years
So there’s this thing called the art plateau, right. There are a couple of schools of thought around it. One view says that you hit a plateau with your art and that’s it. That’s as far as you go. This, right here, is the best you’ll ever be. You can’t get any better. You just…
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Historic Document
I feel the need to document this momentous occasion for historic purposes. It’s more of a personal milestone, really, but here: have a graph — That’s right, ladies and gentlemen. 10,000 words on a new draft in 11 hrs 30 minutes. Okay, full disclosure, I have managed to write that many words in a day…