Dear Readers: A big event is looming on the horizon, one that promises to challenge writers world-wide. Ok, maybe not professional writers, but the rest of us. Those of us that would like to be professional, and those of us that like being hobbyists. This also challenges anyone that ever said "I
Read Full StoryOk, so technically I still have 2 days left in my vacation (today and tomorrow), but I'm at the point where I can post a round-up of how far I've managed to get in ths litte "break" from work. Hedged In: I managed to finish the edit-run, and got 50 pages through the rewrite (so the 45% mark)
Read Full StoryI'm just about half-way through my "vacation" from the day job. Somehow things have taken over a good chunk of my mornings and afternoons, so the only chance I've had to do any work is during the evenings. Still, as I've pushed and pushed all week, I've have managed to chew through quite a bit. Here
Read Full StoryTonight begins my "Vacation" from my regular day-job. That means for the next week, I get to focus on what I would love to make money doing as opposed to what I have to do in order to make money. Huge difference right there. I will be working to complete a "final edit" of Hedged In before my vaca
Read Full StoryWord came through that Blogger was shutting down its FTP export services later this month. As a result, the time has come for me to move away from blogger. As I've already been toying around with Wordpress because of the Underground Writers, I figured it was as good a place to migrate as any. So her
Read Full StorySo today's entry is going to be a little different from usual. Before everything gets lost in the shuffle of cranking out words, and arranging things for Script Frenzy, I want... No, need, to pass on a bit of correspondance that I've been having with the folks down at The Office of Letters and Light
Read Full StorySo I've been working myself out of that little rut that I fell into this past week. Changed the background colour of my "paper" and started fresh with a character idea. Ended up spitting out about 1000 words of a new piece I'm tentatively calling "Blackfoot". Not sure as of yet whether that's going
Read Full StorySo I'm stuck. Like most writers out there, eventually we do hit walls. There's all sorts of advice on how to blaze past it, and I've shoved my way through a great many of them in the past, but it's here none the less. I had been working hard to hammer out the first chapter of a YA novel. I struggled
Read Full StorySo this past Thursday, my writing group, The Underground Writers, did our third big critique session. It was our first session with a new member (Julia Muldoon) in the group so we were all pretty eager to see how things would turn out, what kind of information would get exchanged, and what her piece
Read Full StoryHere we are, only a day away from the end of the year. It's customary at this time to review everything that's happened over the course of the past 364 days. I was holding out for a little while longer in the hopes that something different might find its way into my inbox before the year was out. Na
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Dear Readers:
A big event is looming on the horizon, one that promises to challenge writers world-wide. Ok, maybe not professional writers, but the rest of us. Those of us that would like to be professional, and those of us that like being hobbyists. This also challenges anyone that ever said “I could write a better [...]
03.10.10 | Ze Other Stuff | Shawn Gray
Ok, so technically I still have 2 days left in my vacation (today and tomorrow), but I’m at the point where I can post a round-up of how far I’ve managed to get in ths litte “break” from work.
Hedged In: I managed to finish the edit-run, and got 50 pages through the rewrite (so the [...]
03.7.10 | Ze Other Stuff | Shawn Gray
I’m just about half-way through my “vacation” from the day job. Somehow things have taken over a good chunk of my mornings and afternoons, so the only chance I’ve had to do any work is during the evenings. Still, as I’ve pushed and pushed all week, I’ve have managed to chew through quite a bit. [...]
03.3.10 | Writing | Shawn Gray
Tonight begins my “Vacation” from my regular day-job. That means for the next week, I get to focus on what I would love to make money doing as opposed to what I have to do in order to make money. Huge difference right there.
I will be working to complete a “final edit” of Hedged In [...]
02.27.10 | Writing | Shawn Gray
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So today’s entry is going to be a little different from usual. Before everything gets lost in the shuffle of cranking out words, and arranging things for Script Frenzy, I want… No, need, to pass on a bit of correspondance that I’ve been having with the folks down at The Office of Letters and Light. [...]
02.18.10 | Letters and Light, Writing | Shawn Gray
So I’ve been working myself out of that little rut that I fell into this past week. Changed the background colour of my “paper” and started fresh with a character idea. Ended up spitting out about 1000 words of a new piece I’m tentatively calling “Blackfoot”. Not sure as of yet whether that’s going to [...]
02.12.10 | Writing | Shawn Gray
So I’m stuck. Like most writers out there, eventually we do hit walls. There’s all sorts of advice on how to blaze past it, and I’ve shoved my way through a great many of them in the past, but it’s here none the less. I had been working hard to hammer out the first chapter [...]
02.7.10 | Writing | Shawn Gray
So this past Thursday, my writing group, The Underground Writers, did our third big critique session. It was our first session with a new member (Julia Muldoon) in the group so we were all pretty eager to see how things would turn out, what kind of information would get exchanged, and what her piece would [...]
01.24.10 | Writing, Ze Other Stuff | Shawn Gray
Here we are, only a day away from the end of the year. It’s customary at this time to review everything that’s happened over the course of the past 364 days. I was holding out for a little while longer in the hopes that something different might find its way into my inbox before the [...]
12.30.09 | Ze Other Stuff | Shawn Gray
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