Between parent’s visiting, cleaning up for parent’s visiting, Australia Day and admittidly some general slackness of my part, week four was another week well below par. Only wrote on three days with around 3500 words done. It is really starting to get to me this lack of progress that is going on. I want to [...]
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Week in Review: Week Four 2009
Posted: January 31, 2009 in writing updateTags: writing, writing update
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When I was young, I was fascinated with the idea of being a treasure hunter – finding lost cities of gold, shipwrecks stuffed with treasure, that kind of thing. I enjoyed reading books based around it and watching movies (such as Indiana Jones, National Treasure, King Soloman’s Mines, The Goonies etc) and still do. During [...]
Happy Australia day to all my fellow Aussies out there, and to those that aren’t, commiserations. Needless to say, what with meeting family and friends for BBQ, backyard cricket and what not, my day is going to pretty much non existent in terms of writing.
Time magazine has an interesting article on publishing that can be viewed here at their website. It looks at some of the challenges facing modern publishing, such as bad and out dated business models, and the new wave of self-publishing and other sources of stories that can be found. While we would all dream to [...]
The following was something that came to me early in the morning when I was pondering just how odd at times business practice can be. Got me to thinking about what would happen if other things, such as a sports team,were run in the same manner. The current world financial crisis has claimed a new [...]
Week in Review: Week Three 2009
Posted: January 22, 2009 in writing updateTags: writing, writing update
Week three has come and gone. While it was better than week two, it was still a little lacklustre, only around 5000 words written. Not sure exactly why I haven’t been able to manage better these last two weeks. Currently I’m working on a number of synopsis. I’m trying to get the basic stories of [...]
After a short break, we return once more with a couple more tracks from Fallout 3. Jack Shaindlin – I’m Tickled Pink Jack Shaindlin – Lets Go Sunning
After last weeks rather poor effort, yesterday I got a rather solid day of writing in, clocking in at around 3600 words written. In effect I got more done yesterday than all of last week. Of that around 2000 words were of the rough synopsis of In Fire – I sat down and wrote it [...]
The Week in Review: Week Two 2009
Posted: January 15, 2009 in writing updateTags: writing, writing update
Week Two of 2009 was pretty much a write off. All up, I managed around 3000 words for the week, which is what I am aiming for per day, not the week overall. Admittedly there were some mitigating circumstances, with a few days out due to visiting my parents for their joint 60th birthday party, [...]
I heard a writer’s joke the other day – can’t recall exactly where, otherwise I’d credit it – but it went something like this. Person 1: What do you do? Person 2: I’m a writer. Person 1: Oh, have you sold anything? Person 2: My couch, my car, my flat-screen TV. Amusing but at the [...]
