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Having told you about my experiences with the dreaded BURNOUT ( see previous post ), I thought I’d write up a post about changes I made to my writing process and routine in an effort to avoid burnout in the future, while simultaneously working to get my writing speed back. Today we’re going to talk about the LIFESTYLE CHANGES I made. But first . . . a little rabbit trail about Clifton Strengths. ____________ I’ve already sung the praises of Becca Syme in my Burnout Post, but it bears...

At the time of penning this blog post, I just (literally minutes ago) set a new personal record: I wrote two complete manuscripts in 3 months. These manuscripts are both 100K-plus words long. And while they both will need light edits and thorough proof reads, they are POLISHED stories that won’t change in any significant way during the editing process. Each book took 5 work weeks to complete. I have never written this much in this short of a time frame. Certainly not this much polished work!...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a story must, indeed, find some means of telling it. I am such a woman. I have many, many stories to tell. Most of them fiction. However . . . I find I have other sorts of stories running around in the back of my brain most days. Not particularly exciting stories, at least, they wouldn’t seem exciting to your average sword-and-sorcery-with-kissing reader (such as my typical target audience). But they are stories,...