Current Projects 2013

I feel a little like anyone who lists out their current work(s) in progress should be given a medal. Or maybe those crazy writers should get a superhero outfit, with tight 80's neon-yellow spandex, a long blue cape, and some badass leg warmers that spit out acid into the evildoer's face. Evil in this case being laziness. Or procrastination.

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Project Progress

Time to show what I’ve got.

At this point I have three projects that take up my time in writing sense. I have plenty of other things as well, but when it comes to writing, I’m trying to focus. Can’t say it is actually working.

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MGR Tour: Current Projects

I have a couple of ongoing projects.  Stop on over to Rantings and Ravings of An Insane Writer and find out more about what they are.  Hope to see you there!

Merry Go Round Blog Tour: Current Projects or Progress

Current projects, hmmm. It’s spring so I have seedlings in a south facing window, growing and getting ready to be put out in the garden. I still have to rake up the fallen pine cones, not a chore I’m especially fond of so I keep putting it off.

Fitness is another thing. I’m trying to cut more carbs from our diet and exercise more. Sigh. Cutting the carbs isn’t too hard but the exercise thing, well, it’s not going as well as I would like.

Writing, that’s going great guns.

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The Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour is sponsored by the website Forward Motion (http://www.fmwriters.com). The tour is you, the reader, travelling the world from author’s blog to author’s blog. There are all sorts of writers at all stages in their writing career, so there’s always something new and different to enjoy. If you want to get to know the nearly thirty other writers check out the rest of the tour at http://merrygoroundtour.blogspot.com!  Up next: Jean Schara!

Zette's Current Projects

As many people know, I have strict rules when it comes to starting new projects. First, I make myself finish everything I start (and learn a lot from the stories that give me trouble) This makes me slow to start new things before I feel that they are solid stories. 

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General Project Update (or "What's Redhawk Up to Now?")

It’s that time of month again, my entry for the Forward Motion Merry-Go-Round blog tour. This month’s topic is current projects, and boy do I have a lot of them!

The Liz McMullen Show

Top of the list is the podcast, The Liz McMullen Show. In fact, I’m recording with Liz today! As soon as I know when it come available, I’ll let you know.

Our primary focus will be on the Sanguire series. As far as Works in Progress go, I just finished writing the fourth in that series - Lady Dragon and sent it to Bella Books. I don’t know when it’ll be published, but be aware that the book is on its way and your questions will be answered!

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What's the Happy Haps?

I don't know why, but I love the expression "happy haps". It's fun to say and it has a nice little rhythm to it. It's something I heard my teenagers say and have stolen, much to their chagrin. If Mom uses it, it can no longer be cool/hip/boss or whatever the current slang is for something interesting.

So what's going on in my writing life right now?

Actually, not a lot.

I finished the revision of DERELICT and sent it off to my agent 2 weeks ago. (Continue reading about the Happy Haps on my blog, Once in a Blue Muse.)

Dawn's Projects & Progress

Writing projects are like chocolate cookies fresh from the oven: you can't have just one, and you certainly don't just bake one. 
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Changing gears for the month

I've got lots of projects in progress, but I'm taking the month off to do something different. Come read my post to see what I'm focusing on this month.

Writing Routine
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My writing routine is simply writing. Finding the time is anything but. I end my day with a To Do List for the following day. That list is not rigid and it includes activities from the most important and time pressing to the easy quick task. I work the list from top to bottom. With a young family, balance is important and it gives me a great sense of accomplishment knowing I've not abandoned activities that include family. Read more on The Literary Hub

Writing Routines

It appears many of the writers who covered this top this month are just as haphazard as me. Discipline is one of those things I still struggle with and work at. I may spend an entire writing day and only get 1K out, but then on a day I’m working the day job, I’ll end up pushing out over 3K between eight and eleven at night.   Read More....

Writing Routines: 1, 2, 3, 4, Paradiddle

I'm a creature of hobbit...er, I mean habit (though I also occasionally like to eat six large meals a day too). I'm the type of person who parks in the same spot, sits in a classroom in the same back row, and busts out with a Jets and Sharks style dance-fight rumble if someone steals my seat in the breakroom at the Day Job.

Obviously, I'm a person who's a big fan of routine. Read more...

Lack of routine as routine

Best kept myth in the industry. Actually, I’d say it is necessary, but what exactly is it, that defines a routine? If one wishes to give out book one day, then you need to spend your time on writing the book, and not just planning.

I write at least two nights or days a week. That’s been my latest schedule for about a year now. Seems too little work?

Well, what do you count for a routine?

Come and find out at my blog.

MGR Blog Tour: Writing Routines

We're looking at writing routines this month, and this is not going to be a pretty post.  I guess I do have a writing routine.  It's not very productive, and I've been giving that some thought, because I'm not getting any younger. See more at...

Merry Go Round Blog Tour: Routines

Routines, writing or otherwise, are something I both crave and loathe.

Don’t get me wrong. I love routine, everything from seasonal changes to the way I brush my teeth. Routine makes my life easier. The day goes by without a lot of stressful decision making. I don’t lose the car keys. I always know where my purse it. Every Saturday is spaghetti night. Easy.

Also a bit boring. So it’s a good thing I don’t have a constant routine. Something is always different. 

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Zette's Writing Routine

Here is my writing routine:

I sit down at the computer. I pull up the current story. I write.

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Routine- Awesome Writing Tool or Dirty Word?

Writing Routine - Highway to Hell

Look up the word “routine” in a thesaurus and you get a bunch of lackluster words.

“Unremarkable, workaday, mundane, regular, ordinary.”

Yes, that’s the glamorous life of a writer. “Unremarkable.” (At least until you receive that box of books from your publisher. THAT day is anything but ordinary, believe me!)

Those words pretty well sum up my work day, too.

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