Line of the Dead!

I’ve always loved a deadline. I’m one of those people who thrives on deadlines. I do some of my best work under pressure. When I decided, at the tender age of seventeen, that I was going to be a professional journalist, it was the adrenaline rush of the deadline that made me think I’d love working for a newspaper. Read more on my site...

Deadlines send a shiver of dread up the spine of many folks.  Ack!  I have to have this done by next month, next week, tomorrow!
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Deadlines: Like A Boss

 Deadlines feel a little like a mental flogging. Smack. Get it done! Smack, smack. You're behind now! Smack, smack, smack. You're in serious trouble of not meeting The Deadline. THE DEADLINE. Dead and line. End of the line. Do or die. There is no try. Read more about The Boss...

Jean's May MGR: Deadlines

We're talking deadlines this month.  Head on over to Rantings and Ravings of An Insane Writer to get my take on deadlines: http://polarbear60.org/randr/2012/05/19/mgr-deadlines/

Deadlines

When I first started associating with published authors back in the 1990's, I quickly recognized one problem which seemed to pop up very often in the crowd: Deadlines. . . .

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Deadlines: Love 'Em or Hate 'Em

What’s not to love about a deadline? (I’ll answer that one later.) To be honest, it was only when I started getting somewhere in my writing career that deadlines came into existence for me. Because of that, I think deadlines can be a great thing — it means I’m getting somewhere!

To see the rest of this article, check out my site - In Shadows.

Deadlines: Love AND Hate

Deadlines, all the time. Sort of, but mostly self-imposed. I will write 500 words before midnight tonight. I will finish this damn story on Saturday. Things like that. They always sound great when I write them down. They're achievable, do-able even, and I know for a fact that I can do this. Read more...

Deadlines, To Do Lists, and Expectations, Oh My

I'm a compulsive list maker and setter-up of organizational systems to keep track of them that I ultimately don't or can't use.

I fact, I'm probably the most organized disorganized person you'll ever meet.

(read more about my chaos here. . . )

I have a love-hate relationship with deadlines, and in the broader sense with schedules of any kind. In any project that affects other people (such as the software documentation I used to work on in an earlier life), you have to have a schedule that everybody either sticks to or agrees to changes; otherwise, half the work is undone when the other half is ready to ship.

Where is this going? Find out at Cowgirl in New England.

Deadlines and me

In my freelance work, deadlines are a fact of life. Every project comes with one, and I know exactly how much time I have to complete the work. Writing's a little more complicated . . .

To see the rest of my thoughts on deadlines, continue reading on my blog.

Not One, But Many

I cried and laughed alongside some of the best books, tossed some against walls for being empty and picked some up again and again wishing the hero do as I bid. Read more at The Literary Hub

I Gotta Be Me...

So in this month’s Merry-Go-Round blog post we were asked to talk about who influenced us as a writer. Next to that, in parenthesis, it said: (i.e. who would you like to be compared to?) When I was a teenager back in the late 80′s the answer would have been, hands down, David Eddings. I idolized David Eddings. But that’s not who I ended up being compared to. Nope. Continue reading on my site...

My Writing Influences

It's hard to single out only a few influences on my writing because everything I read and do becomes a part of me.  Every book, every short story, every song, every conversation, every sermon, every activity, every article--well, you get the picture.  Everything we experience becomes a part of who we are. 

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Jean's Influences

I'm late posting here, but my Blog Tour post went up on my site on time (sorry about not getting the link to you here!)  Without further delay, here you go:

What Influences My Writing

There are many things that have influenced my writing, and not just my favorite authors. Sure, I may have attempted to write my very first book in the fourth grade, which was a weirdo mash up of  Piers Anthony's Xanth books, space opera with time-travel, and a fairly Narnian cast of half-monsters and annoying siblings. But more influences my writing than just my inner bookish fangirl. Read more...

Influences: Out of reach

Fortuna is a tricky lady - sometimes she just sets things so that she takes the one thing that could satisfy you the most out of your reach. Forever. But sometimes, those forbidden, out of reach fruits do taste the best. You can read more from my blog.

Influence

Like many writers, I am influenced by everything I read and especially what I enjoy. There is always the little 'how did the author do that?' moment when I finish a book and try to analyze how everything came together and why it affected me the way it did. For actual story generation, I'm more likely to be inspired and influenced by nonfiction history and science books these days. However, for the types of stories I write there is one author who has had the most lasting influence on my writing.   

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