Category: Motivation

Inspiration in a difficult week

Sorry that I’ve been absent from this blog for most of this week. I’ve been absent from most things. My husband and I had a loss Wednesday morning when our dog passed away. It was quick, which was a good thing, but it was a terrible shock for us. My husband and I don’t have children yet,…
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Goals keep you motivated

Current word count: 35,826 New words written: 539 Words til goal: 4,174 / 188 words a day til the end of September I’m almost at the end of this novel, and it’s exciting. In the chapter I just started, a bunch of questions from earlier will be answered; it’s an ah ha moment. Then I have the climactic…
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Never feel alone as a writer

Current word count: 22,588 New words written: 729 Words til goal: 17,412 / 415 words a day til the end of September Another good writing day. I’m waiting the well to dry up! hahaha Hopefully, not til I’m done. Writing is very solitary work. It’s just you, a computer or notebook and your story in your head.…
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Why I need to write every day

Current word count: 9,744 Words written today: 504 Words to goal: 30,246/ 348 per day til end of September Congrats to all those who have been posting their progress in the comments of this blog. It’s great to see, and is encouraging me to strive forward. I hope my word counts are doing the same for…
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Tracking word counts

Current word count: 7,743 Words written today: 949 Words to goal: 42,257 / 340 per day til end of September They say great minds think alike. Not to say I’m necessarily a great mind (hey, the phrase is more fitting to the subject matter), but yesterday morning I posted on this blog that I was going…
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Blog readers and iGoogle

For anyone interested in writing, reading blogs about writing can help in many ways. As well as gaining useful information about the craft of writing and the publishing industry, reading blogs also can help inspire writers and remind us that we’re not alone. I became an avid writing-blog reader when I got serious about wanting…
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More on persistence in writing

Yesterday I wrote about Lynn Viehl’s journey to the New York Times bestseller list and how it reminded me that persistence is one of the most important things to have when pursuing a writing career. Last night, as I was doing more research on prospective agents, I found two posts that tell anecdotes that prove…
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Author Interview: Rachel Dillon

Today on Day By Day Writer, we welcome debut author Rachel Dillon, a fellow member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. Rachel is currently doing a blog tour talking about her book Through Endangered Eyes: A Poetic Journey Into the Wild, published by Windward Books. Here’s her bio: Rachel Dillon was born…
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Writing quotes

I love writing quotes (quotes about writing, not writing them myself), those pithy phrases that inspire us and make us smile and think. I read some fun ones from author J.A. Konrath on his A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing blog. He uploaded them on Jan. 24, but I’m a little behind on my blog reading. Click here…
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Motivation

I was feeling very unmotivated recently (as you can probably see by the lack of posts on this blog — I apologize), perhaps because of the darker mornings, perhaps because of the ever-coming work in my day job. I don’t know that it was any one thing. I don’t think it’s ever any one thing.…
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