Time for another “brain-dump” draft. (Part 1 is here if you want to start there.) You might have noticed I did not succeed in reaching my deadline. But it’s all good, having that deadline kept me pushing forwards when I might otherwise have rested or had a beer. Main reasons for not reaching my deadline were…
Once again, here is another couple thousand words of potentially terrible writing. It was fun just to download from my brain to the keyboard but I am fearful of what I might have produced. This has come from my head, to Scrivener, to here, without me even reading it back. Hopefully by the time I…
Something any indie publisher needs to read – Dean Wesley has put together this excellent series titled “Killing the Top Ten Sacred Cows of Indie Publishing” …
Another 1,000 words today. Part 1 is here if you want to start there. ……
Time to end the analysis paralysis and to put something out there. Better to fail because of what I create rather than fail by not creating at all, right? So here is the unedited first crappy draft of the beginning of my story (I haven’t even read it back myself yet, just pasted it here)….
Are you getting enough done? Do you struggle to get through your to-do list? What is the Real Key to Productivity? Why don’t we get done what we say we want to? Like most people, I have various demands on my time (work vs family mostly), and any remaining can be allocated to hobbies and…
Even “This American Life” is going the Indie. Route. (Indie distribution, that is). Traditional gatekeepers are holding less and less of the “premium” ground. Seems the people who are not actively going Indie are at least talking about it. At some point there will be a showdown between the big publishers and Amazon. Already Hachette…
It’s not pretty, but I am sure many people are familiar with this feeling. A combination of “creative back-pressure” and “productivity constipation”. Told you it wasn’t pretty. That said, I did make a little bit of progress over the weekend with the aid of the nerd’s friend, Dungeons & Dragons. In D&D they had character…
Look at the screen grab and see if the same thought occurs to you? Jim Butcher is one of my favourite authors, so I was eager to see his latest Dresden book. His publisher is asking for $17.23 for the Kindle version – a “$10 saving”. To drum up interest, they put out the first…
Hugh Howey interviewed at Techcrunch on self-publishing: Being patient and having a long view was crucial, I think. I didn’t get discouraged, because I had no expectations. It isn’t like my books go stale. They’re all e-books and print-on-demand paperbacks. They are brand new and always in print, just waiting to be discovered. I firmly…