My Writing Schedule ???

Many ask how do you plan when you write?

Well that all depends on the day and my mood. I am a participant of WriteChainChallenege so I make myself write at least 1500 wordies a day. I have managed for the last 53 days to do so. Here's my schedule (changes made when kiddos involved)

Monday - Thursday during 9am and 3pm for at least 2 hours. At night I write while cooking and cleaning up after dinner.
Fridays I write from 1pm-2am with a few breaks for food and dishes This is for FriNightWrites on Twitter
Saturdays I write any where from 9am-3am for a minimum of 6 hours. In the mornings I do #TalesAndTea with The Sprint Shack on Twitter.
Sundays it all depends on when my kiddos get home. usually I write around noon for a few hours (like 8).

Remember I have two kids and they interfere a lot with my scheduled writing times. Friday my son came home from school early because of a migraine. No problem he went to his room and slept for a bit, so no stopping is needed. Then I have to figure out which laptop I am gonna use, my daughter's or son's. If neither then I HAVE to use my desktop. Using my desktop isn't as inspiring as writing in the kitchen for some reason.

Most of the time I do word sprints for 30 minutes with friends and fellow writers on Twitter. They keep my grove going and when my writing groups aren't running sprints I do. Example, I ran six 30 minute sprints today and had several join in. I always use the hashtag #getwordies because that's our goal, to get words written.

Yeah I am on Twitter most of the day doing sprints. Like I said before, they keep me writing and during the breaks I get dishes, laundry and other things done in the kitchen. I even cook while sprinting now. Though finding TweetDeck was the best thing in the world since Scrivener.

No matter what wordies are written everyday. I wrote only 2540 words today but I created several supporting characters for this 'Dalara' and they may end up with one of their own in the future. Already planning on one for sure.

So, my writer friends and followers, if you need motivation to keep you on track find me on Twitter @jesdeh2o or search #getwordies to see if I'm running sprints! Or you can always ask if I can. I am more than willing to help out my fellow writers.

Favorite Author #4!

Tina Folsom

Tina is one of my found by mistake authors. Yep that's right. I wasn't really looking for her but her 'Scanguards Vampires' found me.

I think 'Sampson's Lovely Mortal' was on sale for $0.99 when I decided I would try her out. Low and behold I was hooked. I ended up buying all that were out and then threw a fit when I wanted more and had to wait.  I have yet to find the funds in my tight budget to start her other series but they are on my LIST TO BUY!

About Scanguards Vampires:

Scanguards Vampires  Book #1
Vampire bachelor Samson can’t get it up anymore. Not even his shrink can help him. That changes when the lovely mortal auditor Delilah tumbles into his arms after a seemingly random attack. Suddenly there’s nothing wrong with his hydraulics – that is, as long as Delilah is the woman in his arms.
His scruples about taking Delilah to bed vanish when his shrink suggests it’s the only way to  cure his problem. Thinking all he needs is one night with her, Samson indulges in a night of pleasure and passion.

However, another attack on Delilah and a dead body later, and Samson has his hands full: not only with trying to hide the fact he’s a vampire, but also with finding out what secrets Delilah harbors for somebody to want her harm.

As the story continues with each and every book you get more and more drawn into it. Always left wondering "what if, who's book is next, holy cow I didn't see that coming." 'Thomas' Choice' was one that I wasn't sure I'd like to read. It's a male/male, book. I read it and I loved it just as much as the others. 

Tina has books published all over the world and in several languages. Take the time to read one of her wonderfully engaging novels. Find her on her website Tina Folsom, Twitter and Facebook. Be sure to sign up for her newsletters too.

Tina's Other Series

Out of Olympus

Venice Vampyr

Stealth Guardians

Eternal Bachelor's Club

Favorite Author #3!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

New York Time and International Best Seller

*My neighbor got me hooked on Sherrilyn's Dark-Hunter Series. Once I read Fantasy Lover I couldn't stop. Since I started reading it just a few years back I bought all that were available at the time, just before Retribution was released. My dad helped me in supplying the money. I read them all in about a week and was left wanting more! This series was the first real adult series I read. I think it's safe to say Sherrilyn got me hooked on reading. I haven't stopped and keep finding new authors I fall in love with but Sherrilyn will always be first in my heart.

About Fantasy Lover:
Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn’t. And being cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior’s day.
As a love-slave, I know everything about women. How to touch them, how to savor them, and most of all, how to pleasure them. But when I was summoned to fulfill Grace Alexander’s sexual fantasies, I found the first woman in history who saw me as a man with a tormented past. She alone bothered to take me out of the bedroom and into the world. She taught me to love again. But I wasn’t born to know love. I was cursed to walk eternity alone. As an ancient Greek general, I had long ago accepted my sentence. Yet...

Dark-Hunter Series is about, well to sum it up, tragedy, love, loss, and patience. You have your dark-hunters (who can only be out in the dark), were-hunters (a.k.a. shifters), dream-hunters, and much more. Read and find the humor I found with Simi! Might want to grab some BBQ sauce first though.

*Chronicles of Nick is for young adults and if connected to The Dark-Hunter series. As Nick is a major character in both.

About:
At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough, and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.
Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead. But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh-eating zombies—and he’s next on the menu.
As if starting high school isn’t hard enough. . .now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chain saw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. How in the world is he supposed to do that?


Sherrilyn has several more series I haven't had the pleasure of getting to YET!
The League
Dream-Hunter (part of Dark-Hunter)
Were-Hunter (part of Dark-Hunter)
Hellchaser
Lords of Avalon
Belador and more.

Check Sherrilyn out at 

Facebook/Twitter/Website

Get her books at

Amazon

Barnes and Noble

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