#NaNoWriMo Day 1
Success! 1784 words so far today, about a hundred more than necessary to hit 50,000 by the end of the month. Cha-CHING! Update: Make that 2126 words today. A very good start!
My #NaNoWriMo Plan
Ok, NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow. This will be my first attempt at it. I’m a mix of confident and uncertain about it. My confidence comes from knowing that back in July, during my 30,000 word challenge, I cranked out over 29,000 …
Featured….
The other day I sent information on Masters of the Sun to the Kindle Lovers website/Facebook page (I’ve got them linked in my blogroll to the right). I checked and they decided to feature it on their site today! The …
Facepalm
Yeah, I’m an idiot. I’m a bit over 27,000 words into the Scifi thriller (and I STILL don’t have a title for it….sonofabitch), and like I said the other day, I’ve been totally bogged down lately. Part of the reason …
Sucking…
Man, I have completed SUCKED at writing this month. Even when I have some free time, I find myself getting sucked into blogs, or forums, or whatever. And then I catch myself and shut them off, or even shut the …
The Benefits of Competition
It’s amazing what a little competition can do. I’ve never had a traditional publishing deal, but in the last ten months since I’ve started educating myself on how publishing works I’ve learned a thing or two about them. For decades, …
The Brave New World of…Tradition? Really?
Even though I have no desire to get an agent, and frankly at this point see no benefit in getting one, I still will on occasion visit agents’ blogs to see what’s going on in their world. And why not? …
America in Decline?
There was an interesting article in the Financial Times yesterday about how America is going to decline, in fact we’ve already begun, and the best thing we can do is talk honestly about it so we can manage is correctly. It’s an …
#SampleSunday – Delphinus
My latest novelette, Delphinus, is now live on Amazon and Smashwords. It will be distributed to all the Smashwords distribution channels (B&N, Apple, et al) over the next couple weeks. Like Passing in the Night, it’s a Science Fiction story. …
Value, Price, and Cost
The comments on my guest post over at Derek J Canyon’s blog have gotten interesting in the last day or so. Not that they weren’t interesting before, mind you. But in the last day or two, the discussion has shifted …