This weekend was devoted to me figuring out if I had story. Everybody agrees that the secret to making a living self publishing is volume. This means that I constantly need to be writing. I know how the story ends. I figured that out when I decided to write more Pittsburgh stories. I rarely start […]
Yesterday was one of those days where I found myself unable to do much of anything. I flitted from project to project never really finishing most of them. I did rework the beginning of Sheepsquatch, and I started my cover for the omnibus edition of Uncommon Animals. I played with the basic cover template for […]
So last night, my newest proofreader finished Hunter’s Moon. All that’s left to do is read it out loud to the husband. Yes, I even wrote the blurb! The end is in sight. Yes, I need to make the cover for the anthology, but I picked an easy one. And there’s minimal formatting and NO […]
I got everything done. Got my stories edited and up on Smashwords. Messed with all the margins and page breaks until it fit their criteria. And now it’s back to work. I need to get the second series cleaned up. The more I get done now, the easier the publishing run. I worked on my […]
I woke up Saturday ready to get all my new stuff up on the critique site. This is involves me critiquing other people’s work. And to my utter delight two of my favorite fellow writers had posted new stuff. But when I fired up my email, I saw that the KDP select time on Amazon […]
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 […]
My youth spent in the theater sometimes shines through my literary pretensions. One of those is times is when I try to explain what creation feels like to people or why I’m addicted to the process of creation. And that’s what I got. I’m always trying to finish the hat. And sometimes, trying to finish […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sat down last night to proofread and nope… I also didn’t get any writing done. Instead I played Civilization V and passed out early. Part of this, I know, is seasonal allergies. The vast majority of it though is me forcing myself to get up at 5:30. Why? Because I’m more productive if I have 30 […]
Words That Burn Like Fire 