One of the books I’ve read recently is The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman. It’s not about writing at all, but it gave me some ideas about setting and keeping writing goals — the thing that I often struggle with. The problem with …
Nothing much to report, at least about writing. I’m plodding slowly, doing a bit here and a bit there. To be fair, my back problems and jet-lag conspired against me and made some of the days miserable. With both of them waning, I hope to have more to report the …
Writing I spent most of the time packing and moving, so these last three days were far from productive. Right now I feel not only tired after carrying heavy stuff but knocked out of normal life. Like one of our cats, who has been hiding in any corner of the …
I have published a short story Finished and published Unknown (Ukrainian version). Here’s the link (might not be available in all stores): books2read.com/unknownukr A bit disappointed that publishing takes so long, but the book is out and I can, at last, let it go. Time to celebrate! And I mean …
Unfortunately, getting up really early crushes my energy level to nonexistence, so I haven’t done much this week. Still: Transferred all drafts from Neo2 to Scrivener, which took surprisingly long Wrote some on The Unknown, close to finishing it Not very much on Voyage Dream: here I kind of stuck. …
The schedule became a bit of a wreck because this week I have to wake up very early. It means that by the time I would usually write (in the evening) I’m dozing a good deal. I will have to adjust, but for now, I’m a bit on the unproductive …
Writing Still struggling with putting the plot of my WIP together. It began to take some shape, but I’m only on the third book. It seems that I will have to either cut something or come up with fillers for some characters. I don’t like fillers, obviously, but maybe when …
Writing Very little writing since last week, but that’s not a problem. The thing is, I’m on the stage with my WIP when I need to organize things and see where to go next. By now, I have about 400 000 words on the project. Some of them are extensive …
Editing and Translating Mostly worked on translating Dream Voyage Inc, and also some bit on Hollow and The Unknown. Not the most productive day, but it turned out I want to rewrite Dream Voyage a bit. There is a part in there that I don’t like much in original, so …
Saturday I spent Saturday on setting up my mailing list, which included: Finished editing The Beast Time Bought the cover Compiled the book in Scrivener Set subscription form and welcoming email in MailChimp Worked on the landing page Overall, good, productive day. Sunday Technically, it should have been a day …
