Tag Archives: EMBER

A rare check-in

I haven’t been checking in very regularly this round, so far, but it’s not due to lack of interest or lack of writing progress. It’s just more general than that: I’ve kinda been busy. Dad is back home and healthy and in his routine again. And I’ve reset and gotten back to writing. No need …

February 5, 2012 – 12:46 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Average weekend

I had an average second half of the week. That’s the bottom line, right up front. On Thursday, I made my goal for forward progress. On Friday, since I write in the evening while doing contract work in the late morning and afternoon, I was busy observing Shabbat. On Saturday after Shabbat was over, I …

January 9, 2012 – 2:19 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Wrestling with motivation

A little success can be almost as dangerous as none. Why do I say that? Because I’ve now had a little success as a writer, and there are times when the last thing I want to do is write. Sure, once I fire up the word processor, that goes away. The trick is to be …

December 25, 2011 – 2:39 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

The big decision

Every time I sit down to work on EMBER, I face a big decision. Do I sink more time into EMBER, which will take a few months to complete, or do I let myself sidetrack into some short fiction that I can put up a lot quicker, expanding my offerings more swiftly, so that I …

December 21, 2011 – 1:00 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Closing in on the end of Round 4

Hey all, As we’re closing in on the end of Round 4, I thought I’d post my progress toward my goals, as a review. DONE 1) Complete guest blogs and interviews and various other content for SHADA blog tour. DONE 2) Schedule the radio interview that is a part of the blog tour, and get …

December 18, 2011 – 3:50 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged | Comments (3)

Another Sunday update

Well, I keep being too busy to post mid-week updates, so that’s gotta be a good thing somehow, right? Seems to be. The big news since my last update is that I finally have SHADA out in trade paperback. As much as my livelihood depends on the steady sales of my novels in electronic book …

December 4, 2011 – 3:01 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80, writing | Tagged , , | Comments (4)

Another Sunday, another check-in

Goals? What are those? Actually, last we checked, I was going pretty good on mine. Still am. I’ve been finally getting past all the distractions and getting down to actually writing. That’s good news for EMBER. Plus, I’m looking at making a solid three figures, baby. Think about that when you’re handing your newborn to …

November 28, 2011 – 3:24 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Sunday progress report

So, a couple things have been kicking my keister lately. First of all, I haven’t reached the “making new progress in EMBER” stage yet. I’m still smoothing out the progress already made. I want to be sure this doesn’t become a rut, so I’m giving myself until Wednesday’s check-in. If I haven’t made significant progress …

November 21, 2011 – 1:28 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Back to writing, at last

Well, the SHADA tour is done. While I remain open to any more opportunities that come my way, my focus is now back where it should be: working on EMBER, the next installment in the Ember Cole series. Do I wish the tour had made SHADA a runaway hit, selling 1,000 copies a day and …

November 7, 2011 – 3:44 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Last pre-Halloween check-in

Well, here we are a day before Halloween, the denouement to my two-week-long blog tour in support of SHADA. I got the last interview and guest blog done on Friday, and now all I’m doing is updating my tour schedule with the live links as the events go live, for the rest of the tour, …

October 30, 2011 – 3:55 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Sunday thoughts

Sometimes I think I’d trade in the whole indie thing for a three-book trad contract that pays me in a nice, high-level Samsung home theatre system. Not really, but there are days when I do wish I was living off an advance and letting expert booksellers do the hard work of moving units off the …

October 16, 2011 – 3:25 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Sunday check-in for ROW 80 Round 4

Well, it’s that time again. Time to check in on how I’m doing against my stated goals for this round of ROW80. Let’s review: IN PROGRESS 1) Complete guest blogs and interviews and various other content for SHADA blog tour. I have something like six items in the bag and nine remaining. My (Teen) Book …

October 10, 2011 – 4:42 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in ROW80 | Tagged , | Comments (1)