[Y]esterday, I came across an article on the 13 most annoying writers you’ll ever meet. It was an amusing article and for the most part, I recognized most of the stereotypes listed therein. I even recognized a few of them1 in myself. Posts like these are funny because we probably all know a writer (or…
[H]ard to believe it is already July. Half the year is over and that means I have writing data for the first half of 2014. Here is what the first half of the year looked like: In case it isn’t clear, the blue bars represent each day’s worth of writing (word count). The yellow line…
[I] posted a similar picture on Twitter a little while ago, but I figured I’d share it here as well. This is another view of my makeshift writing space for this week. When you look at this picture, keep in mind that rumor that the writer’s life is a lonely, angst-ridden one where every word…
[I]’ve noticed that I haven’t been blogging quite as consistently as I used to. I used to get in at least one point every day. Now, I sometimes go 2 days without a post (although that is still pretty rare). This has been more obvious these last few months as my fiction and nonfiction writing…
[O]ne of the questions that came out of my article in The Daily Beast yesterday was whether or not I counted re-writing in my word counts. It is a good question, to say nothing of a natural one, when you see numbers like 400,000 words in a year. The short answer is, yes, I do count rewriting…
[Y]esterday, on Twitter, I promised some exciting writing news: Some exciting writing news coming tomorrow. Stay-tuned. — Jamie Todd Rubin (@jamietr) June 23, 2014 This morning, I am delighted to tell you that I have a new column at The Daily Beast which debuted early this morning. My column, currently biweekly centers around “quantified self.” For those…
[I] am participating in this year’s Clarion Write-A-Thon. For those who aren’t familiar, here is a brief description of what the Write-A-Thon is, and what is supports: The Write-A-Thon has been hosted annually for the past few years by the Clarion Foundation, a wonderful organization that provides funding for the highly respected Clarion Science Fiction…
[I]’m not certain of when this little tick started, but I’ve noticed it repeatedly over the last several weeks (I’m doing it right now!). While I am writing, I find that I am whispering the words just under my breath. I’ve been doing this loudly enough that if someone were to stand close and listen,…
[T]he first week of June (June 1 – 7) turned out to be my best writing week ever, in terms of sheer quantity. In those seven days, I wrote a grand total of 14,357 words. That is more than 2,000 words/day, four times my baseline target of 500 words/day. The previous record of 13,608 words…
[O]ver three years ago, I wrote a post in which I stated wholeheartedly that I gave a crap about genre. This post was in response to something I read that Jeff VanderMeer had written. I read my post again this morning and shuddered a little. It was the same kind of shudder I make when…
[M]ay turned out to be one of my best months since last summer. I wrote 35,500Â words of fiction, which comes to an average of about 1,150 words/day. For me, that is an average of about 45 minutes of writing every day. Only 10 of the 31 days in May were less than 1,000 words. My…
[W]riting every day by no means eliminates the struggles I occasionally face as a writer. In some instances, it magnifies them. And since I happen to be struggling with my novel draft at the moment, I thought I’d discuss some of them here, lay them bare for all to see, and perhaps someone else out…