A Writer's Life

Rachel Arron 2,000 to 10,000 Words How To Write Faster, Write Better, and Write more of what you love Rachel Aaron This Book was published a few years ago.  I would urge anyone who wants to increase their word count to go to  Amazon   and down load a copy of this book. I have this book on my Kindle.  The other day, as I was thinking about my word count I went looking for this book.  I read it again.  There is helpful advice in this book.  She explains how she went from 2,000 words a day to 10,000 words a day.  She is honest and explains how she writes. I am always interested in how others write. I wanted to pass this book to you.  It is worth the money.  I am getting nothing for talking about this book.  I found it interesting, helpful and makes me want to increase my word count more. Check it out on Amazon and see if it is something you are interested in. Keep On Writing

Earlier this week I talked about increasing my word count, well today is Friday, so far so good.  I have been writing 1,000 words a day. I like to write when I wake up.  I grab a Pepsi and turn the computer on and write.  Yesterday, I had errands to run.  Then we ordered a truck load of dirt for the green house.  The he wanted to do some concrete on the green house, then the dirt came and we started shoveling the dirt into the green house.  I ached all over and was tired. I still needed to write.  I forced myself to write.  I wrote 500 words.  It was not 1,000, but I forced myself to write, and I felt better, knowing that I wrote There was no muse, no feeling of wanting to write.  I wrote, because that is the only way the story is going to be written.  I write because that is the only way I am going to be able to hold my book in my hand. I am a writer, so I write Keep On Writing. There is a lot more dirt to shovel into t...

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 ...

Write-Edit- Publish   Order Your Copy Today Includes my writing schedule on how I wrote-edit and published monthly and published over 50 E-Books on  Amazon  Self-Publishing has never been this easy.  Order Today! In the post on 3/14/19 Write An E-Book In A Week, I talked about writing a short non-fiction book.  I have been working on that book since then.  I would get up and work on it first thing for 3-4 hours in the morning, before I did anything else. I thought it was going to be a short e-book. I added more content.   I have about 50 pages and around 10,000 words.  It is finished and am sending it to my editor.  It was easy to write, since the entire content was in my head, I just had to sit down and write.  That is the key to writing and publishing, even though you probably have heard that a thousand times.  I know I have.  I went to writer's conferences and they would say, "Sit your butt in the chair...

You are Blessed if you have people in your life, who supports your writing.  Do not ever take that for granted. I don't have a cheering section for my writing.  By boyfriend supports me, though he doesn't care if I write or not.  It does not affect his life.  So he supports me, but doesn't really care if I write one word a day or fifty pages a day.  Writing is up to you.  People don't care if you write or not, their lives will go on.  You are the one that is going to be miserable. Yesterday I didn't write.  I woke up with sinus problems and I couldn't focus.  I sat in front of the tv all day.  I was not happy.  I wrote nothing.  I probably should of made myself write, but I didn't. Woke up this morning and my head is clearer, I had no idea what I was going to work on today.  I went and fed and watered the chickens.  Drank a Pepsi and decided to blog.  My point is only you can write your story.  No...

I no longer have a regular job.  I quit my job to write.  Sounds good and it is awesome not have to get dressed or have a sleep schedule.  The problem is there is no routine.  I get up when I want.  I go to bed when I want and I can stay in my pj's all day and sit in front of the tv if I want. Wait, I am suppose to be writing.  When am I suppose to do this? I am not a morning person.  I do not like to get up early.  I like to stay up late and sleep in.  By the time I get up, the chickens need to be checked on, I might need to run errands and now I have to think about the garden.  Sleeping until ten is great, but I am not writing because when I get up this late, I need to do other things. Today I got up at 7:00am and have been on the computer for the past three hours and I have acutally been writing. Whether I like it or not, if I want to write and blog, I need to get up early.  Not by choice.  The good thing about g...