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Want vs. Need

Writing Update Scenes Arranged: 11Total Scenes: 33That’s a 50% increase! It doesn’t sound like much, but I feel like I have so little time to throw at writing right now that arranging that many scenes feels like a huge victory. More importantly, those 11...

Ceding Control

Writing Update Scenes Arranged: 1Total Scenes: 22 This doesn’t sound like much, but I’m taking it as a personal victory that I got ANY scenes arranged last night after posting my blog since I posted it after 11pm. It’s highly unusual that I...

My Head Friends

Writing Update Scenes Arranged: 4Total Scenes: 21 Work is so crazy right now that I’m not getting a whole lot of time to get scenes arranged. I had three major set pieces to get in place leading up to the Inciting Incident; one of those is now done. Two more and...

Planner vs. Pantser

I’m rearranging the blog a bit to approximate the way I used to do it. The discussions I’m putting in here are great and I love them, but I want to make sure to put some of me on the page as well as using this to encourage me to do the most important...

Fight Fire With Fire

Beyond this being the title to a fantastic Metallica song from 1984 (yes, the year I was born. yes, I’m a baby. it’s fine.), this is also my tactic with time. I wrote about the fact that Time is a thief recently and this idea has been on my mind a lot this...