Well, what have I accomplished as I wind down toward going back to my day job as a high school English teacher? I've written more than 25 words all but 3 of the last 70 days. I've averaged 546 words. I only hit 2000 words of fiction on one of those days, though I had...
This post is really about marketing experiments. If you're not interested in marketing and haven't bought All Is Silence and would like it on ebook, go here. In paperback or hardcover go here. Now back to the topic: marketing! In Three Parts. 1. So. Do sales help?...
Okay. Really, really, need to get more fiction written. Lots of marketing, some plotting, etc. Some great times with family in the last 10 days, but not enough words! How can I help, Rob? Here are a variety of options that take anywhere from a little time to a lot....
I broke my 500 words a day streak two weeks ago at 34 days. I restarted and went another five days. Now I've blown it two days in a row. Not just the 500+ words a day streak, but the Write Everyday Streak after 52 days! No words. No fiction. No blog posts. A few...
Things more important than words and streaks and novels and such. And the greatest of these are family and friends. Yesterday I focused on them. I got up early and continued ripping out old decking so that it would be safe for small children to play on. Safe is, of...
On Friday I was at the Whatcom YMCA waiting for my daughter to climb the wall. I know, usually children make their parents climb the wall, right? Well. There were a bunch of people there despite the fact that we got there five minutes before the climbing wall opened...
Robert L. Slater, author of the young adult, apocalyptic science fiction series Deserted Lands, has worked as a teacher in the beautiful Pacific Northwest for 20 years. Like some of his characters, he has a propensity for speaking in lines from 80s movies, drinking Mountain Dew and eating pizza.