The weekend was good to me. 3400 words one day, 4300 the next. Not too shabby. When I started writing Cold as Ice, the story flowed really well. I wrote the first part fairly quickly before my mind, racing ahead, forced me to skip a pivotal scene so I could get the second chunk...
I was sitting at writers group a couple months back, listening while someone was giving a critique to someone else, when the gentleman to my left leaned over and asked, “Do you write everyday?” “Yes,” I said, explaining my lunch time ritual of taking the laptop off and putting down as many words as...
So. I decided to do these journals by year and day rather than just starting the numbering over or continuing it on. The Agent First up – news that I broke on Twitter – I have an agent now. After a slew of rejections, some form, some not, Mr. Bob Mecoy called to say...
So. The holidays have brought with them a whole new kind of stress and distraction. My carefully crafted plans for writing have fallen apart under the barrage of demands on my time. Whenever I sit down to write, I find myself having to refresh myself on where I was, where I left off and...
Back in Writing Journal 241, I talked about a lack of focus. Mari Adkins linked me to an article on How to Finish What You Start that got me thinking. So, this weekend I sat down and decided to get organized, figure out what projects I have started and which ones I should focus...
Where I write When I decided to rewrite my novel, Into the Fire, I also decided that I was leaving time on the table that could better be used for other things. Let me explain. An old axiom reads: Never leave money on the table. Essentially, this refers to a negotiation where two parties...
This weekend, I was working on the secret novel project (the one that is only secret because I don’t want to talk about it yet), and in it, I’m revisiting something that I worked on years ago – including a map. (take from that statement what you will.) I did a Spotlight search for...
I wonder how many writers are really down on their own writing and themselves. Probably more than I realize. I know that I am very guilty of that. Mur Lafferty talks about our ‘fragile writer egos’ on occasion, and it always speaks to me. For years, I have been my own worst critic, and...
Well, It’s been a couple weeks since I put out a writing journal, so I thought I’d get you up to speed on the projects I’ve been working on. Sam Kane: Into the Fire is still out being read by an agent, so I’m trying not to change anything there. Having said that, I...
I have reacquainted myself with a couple of characters I created in 2008 or 2009 – Malachi and Madrighan. These brothers live in a hack n slash, sword and sorcery kind of world. Despite being born years apart, their mother insisted that they were twins from the same father, and they bought it. They...
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Patrick Hester is an author, blogger and podcasting dude who lives in Colorado with two cats, Dakota and Shadow, who make sure he gets little sleep and always remembers who is really in charge. He writes science fiction and fantasy (mostly)...[click to read more]
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