Good news for anyone interested in speculative fiction. Locus Magazine recently published their yearly recommended reading list, highlighting some of the best long and short stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror to be published in 2017. So if you want to see what moved in the genres during the last year, this is the … Continue reading Locus Recommended Reading List 2017
Author: Tobias Backman
January Practicing Stats – Now with Graphs
So January was the month were I finally got started on doing my writing exercises again after NaNoWriMo, the Christmas holidays, and moving into our new house. It was also was the month were I finally managed to get three hours of deliberate practice pressed into one day. And I did that three days in … Continue reading January Practicing Stats – Now with Graphs
How to Get More Done – Finding Time to Read and Write With a Packed Schedule
This isn't where I reveal some fake magic recipe for how to get fifty hours' worth of work done in one day with enough time to watch a little Netflix before getting your eight hours of sleep. This isn't that kind of place. Here, realism and hard data rules. This is, however, the place where … Continue reading How to Get More Done – Finding Time to Read and Write With a Packed Schedule
Acceptance Rates: What are the Chances?
Found this nice post highlighting the importance of continuing to submit a story even after it's been rejected by a couple of magazines. Enjoy.
December Stats
All right, so I've been away for while and it's more than due time for another set of writing stats. This time for December, the month where I finally managed to finish of my NaNoWriMo novella, which means all of my writing time was spend on story writing instead of doing exercises. December was also … Continue reading December Stats
NaNoWriMo Stats
It's time for another stat update, this time for November, NaNoWriMo season. So the stats will be covering one month this time plus to additional days just to get coverage all the way back to the last update. Not surprisingly, I didn't get to spent all that much time on writing exercises during NaNoWriMo. Actually, … Continue reading NaNoWriMo Stats
Finishing NaNoWriMo – What I learned
So I won NaNoWriMo. I did my 50.000 words and a little extra in just 29 days. And you know what? It feels great. That being said, the feeling's a bit tainted. I set out planning on finishing the story I'd loosely plotted out within the the 30 days, which required me to go beyond … Continue reading Finishing NaNoWriMo – What I learned
NaNoWriMo Update
So NaNoWriMo started out great. I've been ahead of schedule since day one, and I still technically am -- with 80 words. The weekend has been rough on the writing process though. There's been a company dinner with a subsequent party one day and a football match (that's soccer for the Americans) with friends and … Continue reading NaNoWriMo Update
Stat Update
I've been so busy with NaNoWriMo lately that I haven't really been updating the blog. Well, it's time to fix that. Though, it'll be a short update. In my last stat update I'd reported on spending just above 33 hours on what I consider deliberate writing practice during a three week period. Now it's been … Continue reading Stat Update
NaNoWriMo – What have I gotten myself into?
As the title might suggest, I'm one of the thousands and thousands of people around the world who are going to be participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in November. And I'm more than a bit nervous to be honest. I'm nervous because I've only tried to write something longer than a 4-6K word … Continue reading NaNoWriMo – What have I gotten myself into?
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