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Both Books Moving Forward
Writing Two Books at Once Yeah, kind of weird when you think about it. But working on a novel and working on the How to Write Fiction Sales Copy. I have 19 of the 32 blurbs written in six chapters so far. The novel, well that’s going a little slower. – THE DAY IN GENERAL Managed to roll out of the house around 3 p.m. and did some standard running around I tend to do most days. First snail mail, then to WMG Publishing, then bank, then out to the WMG Publishing store and then back to WMG offices. I got back there around 5 p.m. and worked on formatting…
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Nifty New Covers
Nifty New Covers for My Seeders Universe Novels WMG Publishing, with Allyson doing the fantastic covers, rebranded my space opera Seeders Universe series. I will talk about them below. – THE DAY IN GENERAL Two more raccoons were hauled off the hilltop this morning. And they only put back one cage and it has yet another raccoon in it tonight. This must have been a major offramp on a raccoon freeway. After waving bye to the raccoons, I headed to the office to work there on some projects. Then Kris and I headed to have lunch, then back to the office to work some more. But I also bought two large…
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Busy Monday (Normal)
Busy Monday (Normal) Mondays are always nuts. Plain and simple. And today was no different. – THE DAY IN GENERAL I managed to say goodbye to the caged raccoon I had been feeding all weekend to keep alive so it could be hauled away. Then off to walk with another professional writer and talk about a session or two he and I will be doing at the Master Class in October. Great discussion while we got exercise walking in circles around a mall parking lot. Usually we walk around the mall, but it’s crazy tourist season here and the mall if full of herds. Then I went off to the…
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Title Problems
Title Problems For two years I had a simple title at the top of all these daily blogs. I just had to change a number every day. Got old after two years so decided to title each day. Yeah, that’s working. But it seemed like such a good idea at the time on August 1st. – THE DAY IN GENERAL The day was the day. But I can say it was full of workshop stuff. Today, tomorrow, and Tuesday are cross-over days, when I have homework from the last of the July workshop and the first week of the August workshops. Three days every few months are busy like this,…
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Year End Summary of Writing in Public: Year One
Year End Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. Not even sure where to begin this summary to be honest. I’ve post all the different categories I count and monthly and yearly totals below, but those numbers only tell a part of the story. But let me start with the numbers first and go from there. I did (not counting comments on web sites) 1,281,675 original words in the last twelve months. 745,175 words of that was original fiction. 51,700 words of that was nonfiction. (So just under 800,000 words of fiction and nonfiction combined. More than I thought, actually.) That ended up being twelve novels and over thirty short stories…
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Writing in Public: Summary of Month 12
Month #12 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. July 2014 I will do a year-end summary after this. So check that out. This post is only about July. Once again, as with last month, this was a pretty solid month, all things considered. Smith’s Monthly is going right along. #10 is done and will be shipping to subscribers as soon as the fine folks at WMG Publishing get back next week. And #11 will be back from the proofreader this week as well and will be out by the end of August. I finished two novels this month, including Avalanche Creek, the 12th novel of the year. So that felt great. As I…
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Writing in Public: Summary of Month 11
Month #11 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. June 2014 Once again, as with last month, this was a pretty solid month, all things considered. I didn’t pick up speed as I hoped to do, but that’s all right. Still fine. Smith’s Monthly is going right along. #9 came out just fine. Electronic copies were shipped to subscribers and paper copies will be going out shortly, just slightly late due to a printing and shipping issue. If you didn’t get an electronic copy and should have, please let me know. I also got #10 back from the proof reader and I started working on flowing it in already. I had another novel…
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Writing in Public: Summary of Month 10
Month #10 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. May 2014 This was a pretty solid month, all things considered. And I should be picking up speed in June even more. Smith’s Monthly is going right along. #8 came out just fine and was shipped to subscribers. Many should be getting the paper copies soon and if you didn’t get an electronic copy and should have, please let me know. I also got #9 back from the proof reader and I started working on flowing it in already. I had another novel come out this month, started yet another, so all good there. At some point I’ll do a post showing all the…
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Writing in Public: Month 8 Summary
Month #8 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. March 2014 This was basically a month of recovery from a long winter and a slow start at ramping back up. Not a fantastic month, but sure a lot better than I had during the winter. Wow. Today I got four of my novels author copies for my shelf. All four novels came out in the first three months of this year. Images at the top of the page, available in just about any store. And I got a proof to look over for yet another novel, plus a nonfiction book. And Smith’s Monthly #6 is out in electronic and the paper…
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Writing in Public: Month 6 and Half Year Summary
Month #6 Summary of this Writing in Public challenge. January 2014 Made it through Month #6. Actually, I think you could safely say I limped through Month #6 and got to the end of it. I also had ten zero-word days, most because of travel. So only 21 days of writing and most of that was limping due to a ton of other stuff and getting my sleep schedule badly out of whack. Of the six months of this challenge, January was the worst month in the fiction writing. After a bad December and a bad November. I’m just distracted and having far too much fun and learning on other things.…