So finishing the finale of Monsters of Pittsburgh starts the next phase. Polishing it and adding more foreshadowing in the other stories. I am a firm believer that you cannot adequately foreshadow until you know for a fact what the ending is. And just because I know what I think the ending is, doesn’t mean […]
It’s rough and needs a once over even before the betas can read it. But I finished the second series before June. The first story, Succubus will absolutely be ready by Sept 8. It feels good to be ahead of schedule. And while I have a publishing deadline looming, the cover is done, and it’s […]
On Tuesday, I busted out 3k words for the Monsters of Pittsburgh finale. When I finished, I wrote my Insecure Writers Support Group post, and was ready to spend all day Wednesday head deep in drafting. I woke up, opened Scrivener, and… immediately started scrolling shutterstock.com. Because, you see, my friend bought X amount of […]
Apparently, I AM supposed to be a part of this. I got tagged by not just Ripley Nox, but Jesse Pearle and Gina Drayer. Sorry ladies, my head has been directly up my ass the last few weeks. So without further making of excuses, I shall Blog Hop! 1) What am I working on? Lots […]
The best part of being organized and ahead of schedule. When something trips me up, be it second degree burns from my wrist to shoulder or going toe to toe with my depression, I can keep plowing ahead. How far ahead am I this month? I just have to upload the text Wednesday. The cover […]
Still not up to my usual daily word count, but I made progress on that parody. Unfortunately, I had a massive time slip due to my being depressed. It just occurred to me this morning that I publish in four days and I don’t have a blurb for the next story. I’ll get it done […]
For me, the hardest part of self-publishing is where I have to push my own stuff. Shout outs to my fellow authors, no problem. Chronicling my struggles and triumphs with the writing process, easy as pie. Talking up my own work and urging people to buy it? Heaven forbid. It’s something I’m working on. Anyway, I have […]
Yes, I love to make puns. Anyway, I still haven’t finished that short story. Writing is hard. Writing humor mixed with action is very, very hard. Still I‘m slogging away. I might be able to finish this tonight. Well, the roughest edit of it anyway. I need to finish it because it’s getting to be […]
I’m pretty proud of myself. I not only got my short story polished up for May 1st, I also got some structural work done on the latest novella. The ending lacked punch and I knew it. This week I need to start working on my cover. I think I’ll be updating all of them… again. […]
Publishing monthly means balancing the short, medium, and long views. Short view is always what’s about to get published. Get the blurb done, get the cover done, and proofread despite my lack of ability to see the typos. Medium view is what’s getting published two months from now. The next story is done, it’s all […]
Words That Burn Like Fire 