Blog Tour Day 18
TIN SWIFT Blog Tour
Chapter 18 of HANG FIRE is ready to read over on That’s What I’m Talking About. Click on the link below to get your reading on, and don’t forget, if you leave a comment there you’ll be in the running to win a copy of TIN SWIFT, a handmade (by me) steampunk airship bookmark, and a cool TIN SWIFT magnet. A winner will be chosen at each stop, so go ahead and leave a comment at each blog!
Chapter Eighteen: That’s What I’m Talking About – (also: B’s review of Tin Swift here)
Chapter Seventeen: Dark Faerie Tales
Chapter Sixteen: My Life In Not So Many Words
Chapter Fifteen: Larissa’s Bookish Life
Chapter Fourteen: Literal Addiction
Chapter Thirteen: Magical Urban Fantasy
Chapter Twelve: My Bookish Ways
Chapter Eleven: Deadline Dames
Chapter Eight: All Things Urban Fantasy
Chapter Six: Fantasy Literature (extra prize: steampunk bracer by Roger Brown)
Chapter Five: A Book Obsession
Chapter Three: Tote Bag ‘n’ Blogs
Chapter One: Candace’s Book Blog
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Other Excellent Things
FIRST: I will be signing books, chatting, and giving away magnets at The Reader’s Guide (West Salem, Oregon) tonight, 5:00-7:00. Hope to see some of you there!
SECOND:
Goals.
I love writing, and I love being a writer. Writing full-time means I am at my computer for at least eight hours a day, often more like twelve. Some of that time is spent handling other aspects of writing (like this blog post, for example) 🙂 but quite a lot of it is writing, copy editing, proofing and research.
The tricky thing about writing full time is there are deadlines you must hit. It doesn’t matter if you’re sick, have lost a loved one, or any other number of disasters that befall a normal life. If you’re a writer, your job is to deliver on deadline.
One of the ways to hit those deadlines is to do a little math and figure out how many words a day (or pages a week) etc., you need to write in order to turn your project in on time.
While some writers are ALL HULK ALL THE TIME and stay well ahead of their word count goals, I’m not quite that muscled and green yet. However, the one thing that keeps me powering through to deadline is goal setting, and my most productive goals are those I share with other writers or my first readers.
Right now I have several goals I’ve made and shared with writing friends, who have in turn shared their goals with me. Reciprocal goal-setting seems to work best. That way we each know what the other is striving for.
We have a set check-in time. Weekly checks seem to be the most common and useful, though I also have a more relaxed daily check in too. Just the act of having to check in each week (or day) and knowing someone is expecting me to have hit my word count can really keep me focused. When I’m hitting my daily and weekly goals, I am a very happy writer indeed!
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Long time fan, loved Fallout 2, and can’t wait for 3. Biggest problem is the discipline to await for Thanksgiving sales for any new GPU and PSU the actual game comes out 30 days before that. I want the breakfast time box.