Quantity over Quality

The year is almost over, and it's going to be the worst year--as far as number of views--that my blog has had since its creation. Probably cause I went three months without making a post. It is becoming clearer and clearer to me that in the world of unknown writers, quality without quantity is as …

Think about it all the time

My writing output has been increasing lately because of this. When I'm not writing, I try to think about what I'll write next. Simple right? But it's so easy to get distracted, and busy, and lose sight of what you were doing. Especially if you don't have much time to write, you've got to make …

Finish it, you hand-wringing sloth

Whenever I need a boost in confidence I go to the bargain section in the supermarket and pick up one of those thrillers where the cover is the silhouette of a guy running down a dark alley. Yeah, I can write better than that. You know why that guy has a novel sitting on bookshelves in …

The endless slog through the morass of procrastination

I have reached 20,000 words on the novella I've been writing since November of last year. Yeah, that's like, 2000 words per month. But despite the inchworm-like pace I've been maintaining on it, I still feel like reaching this milestone deserves some kind of cheering. However. If I keep up at this pace it won't …