Writing your book becomes boring, and you start avoiding it regularly. I know I’m writing something good when an hour flies by and I have to tear myself away from writing to do other things. You find yourself writing scenes you don’t really want to in order to make a plot point make sense. I…
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I Did It!
I just wanted to write a little update on yesterday’s post, because I actually did what I said I was going to do. I did my creative work in my free time. During my lunch and 15 minute breaks, I worked on my book. After I got home and ate dinner, I busted out my…
Read MoreI’m Too Tired for Art and I Don’t Have Time
This is a terrible excuse. Still, I make it constantly. Pretty much every day. When I’m at home, I think about work (regular 8 to 5 work), and when I’m at work, I think about how much I’d like to be at home, making art. I will never paint the paintings I want to or…
Read MoreBad Mood Blogging – A Little Prose #3
I just have to get this off my chest. Sometimes, like right now, I feel restless. I want to do something productive. I should write my book, I think. I don’t want to, because I feel like whatever I write is going to be bad. And maybe I should be cleaning, anyway. I don’t want…
Read MoreState of Flow
Flow is important. It provides vital information about what you should be spending your time on. I’m referring to a “state of flow”, a state we slip into when we are doing an activity we love, a state of total immersion. Time ceases, ideas come effortlessly. I experience a state of flow when I write…
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Weekly Favorites 8/10/18
This has been my first full week back blogging Monday, Wednesday, Friday, in a month. It’s been a rough month, and as the week crept closer to Friday, I wondered if I’d have any favorites at all. Recently, after patiently listening as I detailed my problems, a friend asked me, “What has been making you…
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Weekly Favorites 7/6/18
Hope you had a great 4th of July, fellow Americans! I ate some delicious barbecued ribs and watched the first and second Jurassic Park. I have a confession to make… I haven’t written this week. There’s something going on that is taking up all of my mental energy (nothing too serious!), I’ll probably explain it…
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Weekly Favorites 6/29/18
I’m on the 9th chapter of my novel. This chapter has been a struggle, for a couple of reasons. One, I’ve been doubting my writing skills all week, which has made it harder to write. Two, I’m quickly approaching the mid-point of my book, which will be at approximately 40,000 words; that’s intimidating to me.…
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Weekly Favorites 6/22/18
No complaints this week! Felt pretty good, added a couple thousand words to my novel, read a great book, and after a month of extra hours, I’m back to my normal work schedule. I wrote an important plot point in my novel this week, one I’ve been anticipating since I started writing — I killed…
Read MoreWeekly Favorites 6/15/18
This has been a weird week. It wasn’t truly bad, but everyday, things were a little off. I didn’t add to my novel for a couple of days, which always makes the day worse — got back on the horse yesterday. Pretty much all I accomplished was writing 2,000 words. I spent the rest of…
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K. J. Cole 