Robert Lynch

It’s the end of January and I’ve published 8,579 words so far. That puts me on track to publish more than 100,000 words this year, that’s without the podcast, or any short stories or novels I get finished. I realise that is hardly NaNoWriMo levels of output, but this is a marathon and not a sprint. When I was working out how much I wanted to put out on the site it took a while to settle on how much content I wanted to commit to. Ultimately the thing that I looked at was the m

In a spat of sweet irony, I’m foregoing sleep to write this. I work permanent nights and sleep during the day. For the first 2 weeks of the new content schedule I did fine, but a confluence of evil found a way to break my sleeping pattern and make things very difficult. We had a heat wave which contained the hottest day on record and the landlord is selling my house. Because of this I didn’t get more than 3 hours sleep each day last week, which made it very hard to do anythin

Two whole weeks of content complete and still going strong. The written content has been fairly smooth sailing, but the podcast has a steep learning curve. My plan to spend around 5 hours a week on content hasn’t worked at all, it’s been closer to 20 hours each week, not because it takes that long to make the content, but all the extra hours in setting up a website, learning how to make a podcast, and dealing with random problems. There are a number of programs that writers c

After deciding that the beginning of the year was my deadline to start releasing content, then plan was to have two weeks written and recorded before the first was released. The completely foreseeable problem with this plan is that starting at the start of the year means writing this content over the Christmas-New Year period, and I don’t get time off of work. If anything work was busier since state and federal government employees don’t work that week and most businesses fol

The difference between an amateur and a professional really comes down to one thing. The amateur does what they love when they can find the time and the professional makes the time to do what they love. The amateur has no plan; the professional has a plan. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean if you have a plan you will be successful, but hey, one step at a time. For the majority of my adult life I’ve been focused on how to pay the bills, keep a roof over my head, etc. I was devo