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So For Me That Means An Early Run in the Morning… In fact, up at 6:30 am or so tomorrow, three or more hours before I normally get up. And tomorrow I am running a 10K (little over six miles) instead of my normal 5k runs. Seems like all fall there are runs on the […]
Sort of a Look Forward… A Really Long Post Part of this is new, part of this is an older post from 2012 that I thought still made sense today. So once again, the way back machine strikes again. Every time I do this post, or talk with writers at the end of the year, […]
Yup, We Are All Behind… I sort of talked to myself last week in a few blog posts about the stress that often goes with being behind. And the freedom of this new world that causes that feeling of never enough time. Well, in an effort to continue to talk to myself and let you […]
New Year Firing Up… The key is to set some goals. Not talking about some sort of silly New Year’s Resolution. I’m talking about real production goals with your writing. You can and should also set business goals, but for this post let me just stay focused on production, the most important aspect of any […]
This an almost complete update of a post I had here in late 2012. I figured it was worth my time and energy to get this updated and out again, especially since so many of you have been watching me with my “Writing in Public” posts and some of you are even subscribing to Smith’s […]
The Third of the “Goals and Dreams 2012 Series” Got the goals? Dreaming the dreams? All set for 2012 and a good year of writing? Standing here at the beginning of the year, every writer I know says, “Ready!” And they mean it. But sadly, ask all but the most driven writers in May the […]
The Second of the “Goals and Dreams 2012 Series” A Dream: An objective in the future that is out of your control. — A Goal: An objective in the future that is totally in your control. — Basic and very simple. Selling to a traditional publisher is a dream. Mailing manuscripts to traditional editors is […]
The First of the “Goals and Dreams 2012 Series” I’ll bet a few of you got very uneasy by me starting off a goals and dreams series of blogs with the words: “Failure is an Option.” That’s right, you must fail, over and over to become an artist in this business and to just survive. […]