Annie Percik

The Clowning

My story, The Clowning, is included in the Fall 2019 issue of Menacing Hedge.

You can read it here.

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Weeknotes - S04E32 - Writing Daily But Relaxed About It

Summary:

I wrote every day this week, which I know I decided was a bad idea, after the July Camp Nano experience. But the daily aspect was mostly small, fun exercises, and I had a relaxed approach to it in terms of not putting myself under too much pressure, so it was okay.

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Saving the World

My flash fiction, Saving the World, is now available on the Toasted Cake podcast!

You can listen to it here and Tina Connolly, who hosts the podcast, made this awesome title card for the story!

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Weeknotes - S04E31 - Remembering What Works

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I feel like I’ve come up with a better structure for my writing week and that I’ve settled back into a better routine again. I should remember the lesson that trying to write every day really doesn’t work for me and actually ends up being very counter-productive.

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Weeknotes - S04E30 - Taking the Weekend Off

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A bit hit and miss this week. I was low on motivation and decided to give myself the whole weekend off from the to-do list, but did make some good progress on various things at other times during the week.

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Productive Procrastination!

My current main writing goal is to get my second novel in shape to submit to my publisher in September.

In May, I finished editing the second draft and sent it to eight lovely people for feedback, which I received back by the end of June. I took a few days off work at the start of July, with the intention of going through all the feedback, collating my notes and completing a comprehensive editing plan, which I was then going to work my way through for the rest of the month. August would then be available for a sense-check, line edit, and reading the whole thing aloud to myself to check the flow.

Things haven’t gone entirely to plan. It’s 20 July and I haven’t even built my editing plan yet, let alone being most of the way through implementing it.

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Weeknotes - S04E29 - Intermittent Progress

Sunday:

Intermittent good progress this week, interspersed with a total lack of energy and motivation. I’m hoping to be able to re-establish a better routine next week for making proper in-roads into my novel revision.

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Weeknotes - S04E28 - Writing Every Day

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My editing project for the second novel went more slowly than I’d planned, but I still worked on it every day this week, so I’m pleased with progress overall (though I'm not entirely sold on the idea of focusing on logging any number of words every day just because). I also really enjoyed working on some flash fiction and reading another writer’s novel to break up the focus on my own.

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