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Another Day of Needing to Write
Romantic Suspense Workshop In Town… I honestly am doing nothing with them, but I am recording the study along videos and reading the stories from those assignments for those taking the Study Along. It is not many because this is the time of great forgetting.. And Allyson from WMG is here and we are having great meetings and such as well. So no long post tonight, but soon. Again, questions on the first seven parts of the series, feel free to ask. Or something I have not talked about and you would like me to, feel free to ask on that as well. Off to write.
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No Time Tonight
For Another Part… Workshop here in town and also doing the Study Along and I have to get some writing in, so doing a long blog not happening. You got questions about the first seven parts, feel free to ask. Off to get some sleep.
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I Feel Bad for New Writers… Part 7… More terminology
Outdated Terminology Continued… As I said before, ew fiction writers coming in now are really torn between all the myths and hype of traditional publishing and all the myths and hype of indie publishing. But as I said back in the first post of this series, the paperback era of big publishing is pretty much done, and the distribution of fiction is changing over to the electronic era of indie publishing, with indie writers in charge. These kinds of major shifts in fiction distribution to the readers has happened four major times through the history of this country, with each new era lasting about 50 years and the transitions lasting…
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Writing Tonight…
Writing Fiction Instead of Nonfiction… Got a late start today, so going to spend the next numbers of hours writing fiction tonight. The series I have been writing has a number more parts to it. So if you have questions, feel free to ask. Kickstarter Updates will be happening in the coming days as well, so if you have kickstarter questions about one we have done, hold off on those. So now over to writing fiction. So much more fun than writing nonfiction, that’s for sure. Hope you are having a great weekend.
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I Feel Bad For New Writers… Part Six… Things Change
The Changing Terminology… New fiction writers coming in now are really torn between all the myths and hype of traditional publishing and all the myths and hype of indie publishing. But as I said back in the first post of this series, the paperback era of big publishing is pretty much done, and the distribution of fiction is changing over to the electronic era of indie publishing. These kinds of major shifts in fiction distribution to the readers has happened four major times through the history of this country, with each new era lasting about 50 years and the transitions lasting about 25 years. Again, see my first post. New…
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I Feel Bad For New Writers… Part Five… The Upside
The Choice Between Two Paths… This entire series has been talking about the choice new writers coming into professional fiction writing have between the old methods of traditional publishing and the new world of indie publishing. If you have not read the first five parts of this series, please do so now. This will make more sense if you do so. So in this chapter, I want to quickly go over what is possible for success on both paths. Traditional Publishing… For many, many, many writers, simply having a book published by a traditional publisher is the success. Period. And many writers don’t ever want to leave their professional job…
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I Feel Bad For New Writers… Part 4
The Failures on Both Paths… In fiction writing, the only time you fail is if you stop writing fiction. Period. There is no other marker. You stop writing, you fail. It really is that simple. So in this series, I have been talking about the choices of paths new writers can take to get their books to readers. Traditional path and indie path. So what forces in those two distribution paths make a writer think they should quit writing and thus fail? TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING… On this path, the dreams can be crushed in a number of points along the way, causing maybe a great writer to stop writing. Understand clearly……
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Last Day of Cattitude Bundle!!!
Ten Amazing Books Featuring Cats!! You do not want to miss this one, Fantastic books. Go to Storybundle.com/cats to see the amazing selection. And here is the blog once again that Kristine Kathryn Rusch did for the bundle. She describes it all really well. THE 2023 CATATUDE BUNDLE Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch My cats have gotten out of control. During the lockdown, I promoted a series of projects using my co-workers as a hook. The only co-workers I had at the time were the the cats who boss me around: The Mighty Cheeps, and his buddy Gavin, a.k.a The Boys. I’d post a picture of them on Facebook, write…
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A Second Way to Go…
Part Three of This Series… First two parts were in my blogs the last three days. I started this off by saying I feel bad for the young writers coming into fiction publishing today. They are torn between the myths of the old traditional publishing world and the myths of the new indie world. Publishing is smack in the middle of a transition to electronic and indie publishing. Over the last two hundred years, these transitions have taken 25 years or so before publishing stabilizes for 40-50 years. We are around year 14 right now in this transition. So in last part of this series I talked about how a…
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Tomorrow… Third Part
TONIGHT… Getting Workshops Live… The day got swallowed by workshop stuff and a couple major naps and some writing so that I didn’t leave enough time to do the post on indie publishing, so I will finish that tomorrow. For now, those of you who got the special workshops from Case Card Kickstarter should have gotten a letter from me with all the links and codes. And all May workshops, including the collection classes, have started up. So with that, I have done my blog for the night and am going for a much longer nap. Might be called a night’s sleep. But got to finish a chapter first.