J.D. Moyer

sci-fi author, beatmaker

Month: October 2018

Boosting Word Counts – November Productivity Test

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On October 22

In Creative Work/Career, Fiction Writing, Lifestyle Experiments, Writing

I’m in awe of authors who can crank out 5-10K words a day. And there are a lot of them out there. To achieve my own writing goals, I don’t necessarily need to achieve those heroic word counts. But I would like to bump up my productivity significantly.

Ideally, I’d like to consistently write at least 5000 thousand words a week. While that’s an order of magnitude less than many writers, those words still add up. If I can keep that pace up for at least ten months, I’m at 200K words per year. That’s a couple of novel’s worth, or four novellas, or forty short stories, or some combination thereof. (Of course, many of those words will end up deleted, or archived forever, so there’s something to be said for surplus words.)

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A Special Announcement and Upcoming Blog Changes

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On October 10

In Creative Work/Career, Metablog, Writing

Monthly pictures of Leia at the $1/mo. membership tier.

Around the first of November I’ll be launching a Patreon account featuring the following rewards:

  • Exclusive access to unpublished drafts of my new fiction each month (a new short story or chapter of my in-progress novel) with the opportunity to provide feedback.
  • Full and unlimited access to all private blog posts on this site (jdmoyer.com)
  • At higher levels, signed copies of my novels, one-on-one consults, invitation to an annual patron dinner (roving location) and many other rewards.
  • Monthly pictures of my beautiful mystery-breed dog Leia.

For regular readers, that might bring up the question: What private posts?

So as not to surprise anybody, as of November 1 or so, some of the existing posts on this blog (less than 10%) will become accessible only to Patreon members at the $3+/month tier. Some new posts (also less than 10%) will fall into the same category.

For those who can easily afford the three bucks a month, I’d encourage you to join my Patreon for the following reasons:

  • The new Patreon-member posts will be written for a smaller audience, one presumably more like-minded, and will be both more lively and more personal than the public-facing posts.
  • Joining my Patreon will allow me to dedicate more time to writing, including both blogging and fiction writing (resulting in more blog posts, stories, and novels).
  • It’s fun! I support a number of artists and projects on Patreon myself. It feels great to give back to people whose work I have been enjoying and benefiting from for months or even years.

What do you think? My Patreon isn’t live yet, but I’ve been working on the various membership tiers. I’d be curious as to what kinds of benefits you might want, either as a reader of this blog or of my fiction.

Reminder: On October 1st I launched a book review contest, which is open until the end of year. Review The Sky Woman on either amazon or goodreads, and win $500, two tickets to WorldCon Dublin, or one of about twenty other prizes. Based on the number of entries in past contests on this blog, there is a significant chance that everyone who enters will win something.

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