That was an interesting week in terms of writing. This past Friday, I decided that I was going to go for the gold. I was going to go for a 10,000 word day. I honestly don’t know if I ever did that before. I think I’ve come close but never…
SURPRISE BOOK RELEASE! Okay, not that much of a surprise, really. If you’ve been paying attention to my social media accounts, you had to have known that I was up to something. And I was. I was tinkering with and figuring out the process to publish my own collection of…
This has been an interesting week. When I set out working on my newest project (still entitled #GottaBeBae), I set a rather lofty goal for myself. This year, I am once again going to be speaking at the One Year Adventure Novel workshop in mid-June. I always have a blast…
Boy, once again, it’s been a while. This hasn’t been an easy time for me when it comes to my writing. For some reason, I’ve been in a bit of a funk for the past few months. I had every intention of writing and working on different projects, but every…
Because it’s Wednesday somewhere still, right? So a few days ago, I posted this picture on Instagram: Doing something scary… I’ll blog about it on Wednesday. #amwriting A post shared by John Otte (@otte.jw) on Dec 4, 2017 at 1:48pm PST And I did promise that I would blog…
It would appear that I fell into some sort of space/time rupture there and now I’m just emerging. Well, that’s not the case. I apparently wound up taking a little bit of a hiatus from the blogging world again. Sorry. It happens sometimes. So why did I go dark this…
THE SCAVENGER HUNT IS OVER! You can definitely read through this blog post, but there are no contests or anything like that. Thanks for stopping by! Welcome to the Lost At Sea Scavenger Hunt where we are helping the Kinsman people find a new home. If you’ve just found us,…
So over the past few trips to the confessional, I’ve been telling the story of all of my various writing projects. I never really intended for the Geek Confessional to be my authorial autobiography, but it’s kind of turned into that. Hope you don’t mind. Anyway, while I was in…
Okay, okay, okay. I could make the usual excuses, the same ones that I’ve been making for the past several weeks. I wound up taking four days off this week. Or maybe just three days. Life, work, family obligations, yadda yadda yadda. Second verse, same as the first. I won’t…
Ugh. This week’s report comes with a hefty lesson in momentum, one that I learned a long time ago, but relearned in a painful way. But numbers first, and then excuses. This week was not good. I was only able to add another 4,098 words to my current work-in-progress, bringing…