Just Writer Things

A collection of 62 posts

Anxiety

I'm Fine, Everything's Fine

Everything's better with kittens.

Anxiety

Make Me Brave

I have means to make query letters now, but...

Publisher Hunt

A New Pitching PLN

I have five books to pitch, and... I am going to pitch all of them at once.

Coping Strategies

Time Manglement for the Distractable Author

Manglement is doing things in a disorderly way and maybe getting it right at the end.

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Hunting Down Agents

It's a scavenger hunt every single time I set up to pitch, and I have two big stumbling blocks. Summaries and Synopses.

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Routine of a Weirdo

There's a great fascination with the routines of successful people.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

State of the Author: A Bit Frazzled

I have a bad habit of giving myself too much to do.

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: Murderbot Season One

It's no surprise that I love this show.

Murderbot

Murderbot TV: Spoilery Thoughts

Spoilers for Murderbot episode 5, Rogue War Tracker Infinite.

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State of the Author's Task Management

In the middle of trying to lure in audiences, I am enacting a cunning plan.

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Writing With the Can't Focus Syndrome

I joke that I have enough issues to run a periodicals library.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Sanity Projects, 'In' Prefix Optional

Humans will do literally anything rather than be bored.

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

State of the Author

I know that eventually, things will be sorted out

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

State of the WIP, State of the Pitch

I've spent all year attempting to gain help with Adapting, but only received silence instead of interest.

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Hints and Tips From a Chronic Writer

My writer's group frequently calls me 'relentless' when it comes to always writing.

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Accidentally Mentoring...

I have no idea how this keeps happening. I've picked up a third mentee.

A Devil's Tale

State of the WIP (August 2024)

I'm probably going to start a fifth GoogDoc.

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: The Creative Process

When attempting to figure out what I was going to rant about, this week, I kept asking myself one question. What do I keep going back to and enjoy going back to it? I enjoy making things. Not just stories, though I do make up stories with a relentless enthusiasm

Life, Fuckups, and Trivialities

Juggling Moments

I've had a disruption to my usual sequence of operations, and hammering out a new one is -er- "interesting". As in, "may you live in interesting times" brand of "interesting".

Reasons to Love

Reasons to Love: Terry Pratchett (GNU)

I've read his books since the first Discworld titles, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. Yes, I was a 1980's teenager.

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The Opposite of Writer's Block

I keep getting ideas for what to stick in the series of epilogues.

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Tandy Syndrome

Before some genius coined the word "enshittification" I knew the concept by a different term. "Tandy Syndrome".

Anxiety

The Anxiety is Real

I've been procrastinating on a lot of things. Today, I had some real good excuses. In-person time with MeMum, who did need me for an extended Leyland's tour of errands. And tech support. And a good gasbag, because who doesn't need a good gasbag?

Advertising Myself

Pitchfest Incoming

My heart's already going hell for leather at the mere thought of it.

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Pasteboard, Blob, and Glop

The publishing industry has seen it before. So too have creative platforms of all kinds.