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A Publisher By Any Other Name
Indie Writers… What a Strange Term… Just for a short time I want to explain why I have been shaking my head for almost ten years now when I hear the term “Indie Writer.” I hate to say it, but I was an indie writer when I sold over a hundred novels to traditional publishing. That’s right. I was an independent writer, with my own business, often selling to three or four or five traditional publishers at the same time. Not counting magazines and anthologies and other stuff. I had my own business as a writer. I was an indie writer. We were just not called indie writers back then.…
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Another Bryant Street Story
Three of the Last Four… And all of them have come in around the same length. I have no idea why that happened. Never usually does. My stories tend to vary all over the map in length. But nine stories done so far and I’m enjoying the process and so far Kris has liked them all, which has shocked me, to be honest. And a couple of them can be novel starts. Today was a pretty standard day. Went to the writer’s lunch at 2 p.m., worked out at the stores for a short time, then back at WMG offices until I headed home to work at home on household…
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Another Saturday, Another Story
Actually Another Two Stories, But Only One Counts… I had a normal day of 8,000 steps plus a ton of physical labor work. Lots of moving boxes and bending and such, so I wasn’t upset at not getting the 10,000 steps. Tonight, around 11:30 p.m. I made it to my writing computer. I grabbed one half title “… the Other Side.” Then I spotted a second half title “The Man Who…” and for some reason I stuck the word “tasted” between the two half titles to get “The Man Who Tasted the Other Side.” That had to be Bryant Street and off I went typing. I got six hundred words…
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The Day Just Went Away… I Think…
Ever Have One of Those Days?… I am not at all clear on exactly what happened today. I just sort of blinked twice and I was sitting watching television with Kris at 1 a.m. So as Best I Can Remember, My Day Went Like This… Started off up at the WMG offices at around 2 p.m. to unload my car from yesterday. Worked on some stuff there and made it to the bank by 4 and then to the South stores. Left there and headed to get some lunch and go back to my office after 5 p.m. I ended up getting my exercise today (only got 8,000 steps, but…
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A Big Move, Then Picking and Writing
I Had a Fun Day Today… I got eight hours sleep last night and tonight actually made it to the writing chair by 1 a.m. Wow, getting that starting time back where it belongs. My Day Went Like This… Started off up at the WMG offices at 1:30 p.m. Josh and Cameron were there and we set out to move an office from one side of the large building to another. Thankfully, Josh and Deena the day before had got a head start, and Cameron that morning had done a bunch as well. Thanks, guys!! So we got it 95% moved and then moved another office about twenty feet from…
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The Importance of Rest
Resting is a Critical Part to Any Challenge… Those who have been following this so far, you know I have a mini-challenge of 20 short stories by the end of the month, a major challenge of publishing my age of 67 books in my 67th year, and a major challenge of running in 67 miles of races in my 67th year. I started the writing on the 10th and the exercise on the 11th. When I sat this up, being a long-time athlete, I knew that rest was going to be critical in all three challenges because all three were long-term. So today was my first scheduled rest day. So…
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Got Story Five Done by 6 A.M.
It Seems Being Exhausted Helps… I got to the story this morning at 3:30 a.m. Far, far, too late. But… My Day Went Like This… Just trust me, there was no stopping except for one nap, cook dinner, and watch one hour of The Voice. The rest of the day was going from 2 p.m. until now, 6:30 a.m. And yes, I got my 10,000 steps. I sat down at 3:30 and looked at my half-title sheet and decided the first thing I looked at I would go with, so that was “Under Glass.” And I would do a Cold Poker Gang mystery, since I have those characters in my…
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Only a Couple of Flickers
At Least So Far… Winds are howling, but not bad for a coast storm. We are getting hit with about 70 mph gusts here. We are used to this. A much, much smaller storm hit the first day of the Master Business Class as people were trying to get here. People who never been in a coast storm found that one to be a worry. That had gusts around 40 and less rain than this one. We have about five or six at this level a year. When they start warning of gusts over a hundred is when we pay attention. (grin) And just to give a summary before I…
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Just in Case
I am writing this at 12:15 a.m. I haven’t gotten to my writing computer yet to write a short story tonight. I will shortly. But why this post now is because we are having a little storm, winds over 70 mph here, and some trees still have leaves. Normally this level of storm we wouldn’t even notice, but the first one of the year means we may lose power. So I am putting this here in case I don’t make it back online tonight. (grin) Streak of days blogged got to be maintained you know. With luck I’ll see you in about six hours with a longer, more regular post…
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Day Two: Still Flying
A Second Really Fun Day… I worked in the stores (treasure hunting in my own store), did a bunch of work on workshops moving to Teachable, and got my 10,000 steps done, plus a short story. Can’t beat that. Details below. First, I wanted to remind you about the special workshop offer we have going on for the next four days. It ends on the 16th. Here are the basic details of the offer…. For exactly one week, until November 16th, you can get two regular workshops and two classic workshops for the price of $500. That is exactly the same as it was offered in the Kickstarter. A fun…