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If You Don't Meet Your Daily Word Count...

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If you don't meet your daily word count, Bruce will be forced to thrash you. In his white socks.  I recommend outlining. Write the whole book in stream of consciousness outline format as fast as you can. No stopping. THEN... once you have the story mostly figured out, you go back to the beginning and retype the outline in prose format. My word counts went from 1500ish per day to 5000-6000 per day (and often more @~1000 words per hour). And it took the pressure off. Writing slowly while sculpting your prose and holding the entire story in your mind while you tiptoe through the plot is like sculpting in clay without having any idea what you're sculpting. Outlining allows you to savor the thrill of discovering the story without having to wait months to see the climax & resolution. My outlines usually take about a week. Instead of spending a year writing a novel, I'm writing a trilogy in a few months. This has helped make writing more fun and less dreadful. It makes it

The Philip K. Dick Award Storybundle is now LIVE!

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Hello, gang. My good friend & fellow writer Lisa Mason is curating the Philip K. Dick Storybundle, which is now LIVE. It's a great opportunity to read and discover a lot of really great work by talented writers. We'll be featuring each talented writer over the next two weeks. Enjoy! Storybundle.com  is pleased to present The Philip K. Dick Award Storybundle The Philip K. Dick Award Storybundle   includes   Aestival Tide   by   Elizabeth Hand  (PKD Finalist),  Life   by Gwyneth Jones  (PKD Winner),  The Cipher   by   Kathe Koja  (PKD Finalist),  Points of Departure   by   Pat Murphy  (PKD Winner),  Dark Seeker   by   K. W. Jeter  (PKD Finalist),  and  Summer of Love   by   Lisa   Mason (PKD Finalist). The bonus books, which complete your bundle, include   Frontera   by   Lewis Shiner  (PKD Finalist),  Acts of Conscience   by  William Barton  (PKD Special Citation),  Maximum Ice   by   Kay Kenyon  (PKD Finalist),  Knight Moves   by  Walter Jon Williams  (PKD