Tag: word count
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Quantity or Quality?
This has been an age-old question: is quantity more important that quality or vice versa? Two things particularly have brought this question back into my sights. The first, the fact that I have 5 projects that I have in the waiting for revision with a 6th closing in. The second, was Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s latest…
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Foundation Work
I had planned for another post today about looking at life through a positive lens, but I decided that I needed to write this one first, cutting it into the line. Positivity will come next Tuesday. Coming on the heels of my last post about not waiting to change, I have continued to struggle this…
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The Ails of Being a Pantser
There are lots of troubles when you are a pantser. Writers know what I mean, but for everyone else, here’s the scoop: a pantser is a writer who writes by the seat of their pants. No plan, no outlines, just writing. And it has been getting to be a bigger problem for me than anything…
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Five Projects
Five is really too many. I have five projects that need to be edited, revised, beta-read, and then revised again: Gravity 4 Gravity 5 Antlers Soar Of Earth and Ice It’s roughly 275,000 words of writing overall that I need to go through. And that doesn’t count the numerous short stories I’ve been working through.…
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Nine Days… and Counting
Today marks the 9th day in a row that I’ve written fiction. Earlier this year, I made it 122 days straight writing. Given that I stopped writing on purpose in September for vacation and then had shit go down after I got back that made it tough for me to get back onto the saddle,…
Jeremy C Kester 