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A Fun And Powerful Saying…
I Think It Was Nelson Mandela Who Said It… A quote that fits my challenges and also the Mindset workshop that just started. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Yup, exactly. Problem is that is you believe something is impossible, you make decisions to make sure the impossible belief is true. So, for example, my challenge is to do 52 collections this year, all ten stories each. No repeating stories. Impossible, right? Basically publish one collection per week. I am five weeks in and tonight I put together the 7th collection. I should have ten collections (100 stories) done by tomorrow night with covers for all ten. A couple…
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Update on My Last Year’s Challenge…
Far Too Aggressive and I Knew It… But considering the year I had just come through and the one we were about to go through, I needed something to keep my focus on writing every day. And what better way to do that was to attempt to write one short story per day for the entire year. Totally worked. Of course I did not hit the challenge, I wrote 106 short stories. In a really bad year for other reasons. I know a number of you managed fifty or so this year. Way cool, but my “failure” produced more short fiction than many writers will write in their entire careers.…
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Update on Challenge and Vellum Battle
Won the Vellum Battle… I am sure I will have issues at times, but they will be minor. Got my collection through Vellum and turned into StoryBundle and that bundle will launch in a couple of days. I will do covers in InDesign, most interiors in Vellum, Smith Monthly interiors in InDesign, and fun Kickstarter designs in Canva. And that collection (called MY SOCKS ROLLED DOWN AND OTHER STORIES) is also book #1 in my challenge of 75 major books published in my 75th year. A few things have shifted for me in that for the first time in my life, I want to have every one of my short…
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Changing My Challenge!!
Yes, Only One Week In… Amazing how starting a challenge can bring up reality and things a person had never thought of. A tiny bit of back story. Last three years have been just flat pressure every day, from losing my sight three years ago, to business sstuff, to the fall and surgery and PT at the same time stunningly awful business problems were discovered and now the last two years of putting things back together and attorneys, lots of attorneys. Kris and I, with the stunning help of Chris York and Stephanie Writt, put it all back together and better. And now Steph has moved on to different pastures…
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Update on Challenge…
Novel Writing Off To a Slow Start… Totally expected.No surprise at all. Working on a Thunder Mountain novel titled CASCADE MEADOWS. A few of you from Idaho might actually know where that is at. I will have a cover for it after a time that I will share here. Last night I did the cover for my first ten-story collection, which will be part of a really fun Wee Beasties story bundle launching in a few weeks. The title of the collection is MY SOCKS ROLLED DOWN and Nine Other Stories… So now putting the stories and introduction together into Vellum. Here is the cover… The half price sale still…
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Going For It!!!
Starting Two New Challenges for Myself… Actually, three. And I will be doing every detail of everything all myself. No help from anyone. That’s right. I will be doing my own covers and my own interiors with Vellum or InDesign. I will be listing them all electronically and with Ingram for paper and hardbacks. And I will be working on my store and getting all of them there as well. So what is my challenge? From November 10, 2025 until November 9th 2026… Challenge #1… I am going to write and finish a new novel every two weeks. So 26 novels, but in the actual year I will more than…
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Long Day, But Good One…
Not Enough Sleep… So calling it a night early tonight. Tomorrow is Kickstarter Friday, and so far I have only had two sent to me. August 1st 2012 I challenged myself to blog every night without missing, thinking I might make it a few months. 4,844 days later, I do this short post to keep the streak going. Damn streaks are powerful. Night
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Am I Really Going To Write a Novel Every Two Weeks?
Got That Question Twice in Emails… The short answer… I think I will try the challenge. But I am turning 75 and I love the idea of publishing 75 major books (novels, collections, novellas) in my 75th year. (I don’t tend to write novellas, so it will be mostly novels and collections and anthologies/magazines. So if I started on a novel every two weeks, I would write 26 if I hit it, but only publish 22 or 23 due to the time lag between finishing and publishing. A long way from 75… So for years now I have wanted to do a series of collections to get all my short…
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Limits in Writing and Publishing…
Everyone Sets Their Own Limits… Actually not completely true. Everyone’s limits are set by what they learned from others, mostly non-writers spouting myths they learned at some point. And there are major myths that most writers never get past. — Writing Fast Is Writing Poorly — Everything Must Be Rewritten — Everything Must Be Perfect Before Publishing These myths and so many more are what limits each writer. And the myths were encouraged by agents who were never writers and also traditional publishing that could only handle so many books from a writer, usually just one per year. And the fear of what others will think stops millions of writers…
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Quick Post… Having Site Issues…
Want to get this here… Went to an Aces’ Game tonight. Their 8th win in a row. Five teams a half game apart from 2nd to 6th. Going to be a wild end of the season. Remember the Adult Back To School sale has started. See yesterdays’ post. Now to see if this will post and keep my streak and challenge alive.