Typing Away
I’ve been firing on all cylinders this weekend. 2550 words on Friday night. 3100 words last night. If I can get 1500+ words tonight too, the weekend will have rocked. I’d really like to get over 38,000 words total on …
Category: Writing as a Business
Amendment
I’ve thought it through some more, and I need to amend my new goals from the last post, as follows: There’s no point in taking those two stories down at this point. They’re already technically published, so it’s not like …
Rushing
Now that my computer’s fully up and running again, I’ve caught up on listening to the writing podcasts I enjoy: I Should Be Writing, Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing, and Writing Excuses. They got me thinking. Lately, I’ve been reading a bunch of …
Posted
I went ahead and did it. I posted my first two short stories on Kindle and PubIt. They should be up and available for sale sometime tomorrow-ish. I figured what the heck, right? Worst that happens is no one buys …
More business thoughts
I’ve not made much progress this week. I’m up to just under 29,000 words on Masters. On the bright side, the progress I did make was good. On the bad side, there wasn’t much of it. Part of the reason …
First Submission
First, another update. I’m up to 27,000 words on Masters. I got about 900 words done on Friday night, and about 400 or 500 during the day yesterday. I meant to do more, but I felt this weird need to …
Name Change
First, an update. As of last night, I have over 23,000 words down on Masters. I’m not making progress as quickly as I’d like (I’d really like to get at least 1,000 words a day, but some days that simply …
Traditional vs Indy Publishing
Dean Wesley Smith had another good blog post here about the differences in cash flow between publishing a novel traditionally vice going the new indy, self publishing route. He didn’t take the time value of money into account, so for …
Problems with skipping around, and thoughts on business
I’m up to 21,000 words on Masters now. The site where I work was shut down today because of snow, so I had more time than normal to work on my writing. All the same, I didn’t get as much …
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