A Writer's Life

Zombies On Board   The first book in the series  Me VS Zombies   I wrote and published a short story a month My Writing Schedule  on how I worked a full time job to pay the bills and still wrote and published on Amazon, every month. In my last post I talked about writing 500 words or 1,000 words a day.  Monday I wrote 1,000 words within 30 minutes Tuesday I wrote 900 words and took me an hour. Today, I will write and I post this blog and after I check the chickens.  (We just put the 12 chicks in with the adult 6 chickens in the same coop and clipped their wings.  All went well, but you are not here to hear my chicken stories) My point is that one day the words flowed, the next day they didn't.  A fact of life for a writer. I wrote and that is the important thing. It is not said that you have to write 1,000 words at one time.  Write when you can. 1.  While you are in the waiting room to see the dentist or doctor 2....

I sent off my Non-Fiction Book to the editor.  I wrote in less than a month.  I worked on it for about 3-4 hours a day and within a couple of weeks the rough draft was done.  I reworked a few things and now it is off to the editor That was only 10,000 words. I want to write 100,000 word book. Then other ideas pops into my head.  I jot them down.  I think they are brilliant.  Wait, I have to finish the novel that I am working on now.  I have the book cover, characters and plot.  I need to finish this book, but I also want to start this new series, oh but wait, what about my memoir?  I think my head is going to explode. So I did some research this morning, when I should of been writing.  If you write 500 words a day, in one year you would have written 289,755 words in one year.  That could be 2 novels plus or 4 shorter novels, plus If you write 1,000 words a day, in one year you would have written 365,000 words in one ...