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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 6, 2019 7:52:25 GMT
Thanks, K'Sennia Visitor . 2588 words today, plus I finally persuaded Amazon to give me an Author Page for Richard Blakemore and myself. Richard now has a blog, too, though there isn't much content there yet. Now I only have to persuade Smashwords. I Love Your Blog!!! Richard is a handsome hero and a very interesting fellow. I liked how you incorporated his thoughts in red and how he keeps insisting he's not the silencer. The 1930s is my favorite historical era. And schweet on the new words and the ac page.  |
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Post by prolificwriter on Feb 7, 2019 3:32:58 GMT
4,176 words today!
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Post by corabuhlert on Feb 7, 2019 4:59:56 GMT
Good job, prolificwriterGlad you like the blog, K'Sennia Visitor. The author picture is actually from a 1941 Sears catalogue, which is public domain. I also like the 1930s, plus it was the heyday of the hero pulps and of masked crimefighters before they turned into the superheroes we are still familiar with today. Today, I set up Richard's Smashwords profile and was having some fun filling out the Smashwords interview for him, especially those questions that make no sense to someone who lives in the 1930s. I also wrote 2458 words. |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 8, 2019 3:44:37 GMT
Public Domain is the best. I love the public domain. I have a PD folder with all the pd picture and book sites I could find. Masked crime fighter, that's what we call them. Thanks! It's cool that they came first and it also makes sense that so many superhero shows still follow the detective's heroes journey.
I republished all of my unpublished books today after a meltdown, and I am watching a video series about how to publish bulk journals. I will return to it once my attention returns. Right now it's swinging in the jungle with the fairies.
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Post by corabuhlert on Feb 8, 2019 5:41:43 GMT
Another good writing day of 2385 words today.
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Post by corabuhlert on Feb 10, 2019 6:09:30 GMT
1050 words yesterday and a very good 2970 words today, plus I started a new story.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 10, 2019 7:23:03 GMT
Well done and well done, Cora!!!
In my socialist TUOK country self-publishing is illegal. Only a few chosen people are allowed to be professional authors published by the national publishing company. But there is an underground amateur author community who meet in old abandoned warehouses where they share their writings with others who were born to write and cannot quit for anything. The amau's aren't allowed to charge money for their writings, so they just do it for fun and the love of the craft. Individual manuscripts are passed around, hand-copied and shared.
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Post by dormouse on Feb 10, 2019 22:22:59 GMT
I continue at 0 words.
Words that I'm counting anyway.
But I've done my initial spreadsheets for a trilogy (first part of a longer story).
Much time spent cogitating a discrepancy between the sheet and my preferred scene sequence. I'm going with the sequence, but awareness of the discrepancy will help me watch the overall shape.
Words should be next up.
When I have time.
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Post by corabuhlert on Feb 11, 2019 6:18:07 GMT
I wrote 3097 words and finished my new story and also designed a cover. It's a Valentine's Day story, so I'm trying to get it out on time for Valentine's Day. Though I wish I would get ideas for holiday stories at a reasonable time frame.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 12, 2019 5:11:44 GMT
Woohoo corabuhlert for the Valentines day story, and good job on your spreadsheets and trilogy planning dormouse! A big storm knocked out the power lines Sunday afternoon, and they have just come back on for a sec. I am worried they'll go out again and not trusting it to stay, so getting in all the internetting I can while I can. No new words but I did do a bunch of notebook research and read "To Dream In The City Of Sorrows" a Sinclair standalone Babylon 5 novel. As well as two Jenny Archer books.  |
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Post by dormouse on Feb 12, 2019 12:52:17 GMT
good job on your spreadsheets and trilogy planning dormouse ! A big storm knocked out the power lines Sunday afternoon, and they have just come back on for a sec. I am worried they'll go out again and not trusting it to stay, so getting in all the internetting I can while I can. Hope your power is now fully back. I know how frustrating cuts can be. I am surprisingly pleased to have got the sheets done, even though they're unimpressive and will need correction, because it's the final stage before writing. Everything else is already in my head (or noted somewhere). The writing will be hard though. There's an awful lot of it to do with no reward except the doing. There will be a major set of continuity problems between the last book in this trilogy and the first book in the next. I don't think I can rely on managing them purely in the writing of the second trilogy since that might introduce further compromises going forward. So that means I need to have written all four books and then potentially tweak an partially rework all four. Hey ho. I'm sure I will amuse myself by writing some of my other projects, once I have this well and truly underway. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Feb 13, 2019 5:53:48 GMT
I hope you got your power back, K'Sennia Visitor. Good work on the trilogy planning, dormouse. I published the Valentine's Day story yesterday. And because the story is part of my Silencer series, I also had to update all previous books in the series. I also wrote a 1485 word author's note for the story to deflect reader e-mails along the lines of "But that's not where the diamond district is." No, today it's not, but back in the 1930s it was. Today I wrote 1451 words of miscellanous projects. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Feb 14, 2019 6:09:14 GMT
1033 words today. I had a nasty, weather induced migraine.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 14, 2019 7:23:57 GMT
*hugs* corabuhlert for your migraine! Good job on your new words and all of the extra stuff you had to do. You even made it in time for Valentine's Day!!! Yep, power is back on. It's just raining right now, so hopefully it stays that way. I published a recipe journal today. Managed to get the cover accepted and now it and the book are in review. Will see what happens next. |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 16, 2019 0:07:46 GMT
I'm doing something even weirder with TUOK, but I am writing, so huraaaays for that.
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Post by corabuhlert on Feb 17, 2019 6:23:42 GMT
The migraine is gone thankfully, at least for now. Weather related migraines really are the worst, because unlike migraines triggered by certain foods, there's no way to avoid the weather.
Writingwise, I wrote 1039 words on Thursday and 1485 words on Friday. Today I wrote 2145 words, which I'm very happy with.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 18, 2019 1:36:25 GMT
The migraine is gone thankfully, at least for now. Weather related migraines really are the worst, because unlike migraines triggered by certain foods, there's no way to avoid the weather. Writingwise, I wrote 1039 words on Thursday and 1485 words on Friday. Today I wrote 2145 words, which I'm very happy with. Yaays for your migraine going away. *grrs at the weather* Hopefully, you will have nicer weather for the rest of the year. Fab news on putting in your words and being happy. My journal went through after getting tossed back once cos of the cover again. I am not doing any more journals or paperback books. Sticking to ebooks from now on. I think non-fiction is going to be best for me cos I'm not a good enough writer for fiction, and I refuse to pay money for stock photos + I just can't force myself to write another smutty book. This means I've got to do a lot of research, so I spent all day today reading stuff online. Which is my happy place anyway. I know speed and outlines and all that, but I can't create an outline until I know what I'm talking about, and I want my books to be really good and actually helpful. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Feb 18, 2019 6:05:48 GMT
Non-fiction can be profitable. Of course, the non-fiction I write on occasion usually consists of essays about obscure German pulp series and the like, so the market for that is tiny. On the plus side, the five people whon do care about that sort of thing will absolutely e-mail you to let you know how much they love this obscure pulp series and how happy they are someone is writing about it.
I wrote 1044 words today and created a Twitter account for Richard Blakemore, my 1930s pulp fiction writer alter ego.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 18, 2019 8:15:28 GMT
A small but rabid fanbase is nothing to sneeze at! Hurraaays for the fun twitter account. I'll have to follow him. I just wrote 1,798 words tonight for the introduction of my newest book 'How To Think Yourself Successful." Twas one of those sudden whims I have. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Feb 19, 2019 5:44:26 GMT
Congrats on the good wordcount, K'Sennia Visitor . I wrote 1521 words today and did a read through of an upcoming story. I had hoped for more, but I had a go around with my credit card company, which hates science fiction cons for some reason and seems to think buying a con membership is fraud. So I got on the phone, explained that "This is not fraud. This is me and could you please just let me buy my membership" and then had to fill all the info they wanted out again. This isn't the first time I've had a problem with the credit card company while trying to buy a con membership BTW. It's probably some demographic thing - women my age aren't supposed to be SF fans and go to cons. Either that or they hate the payment processor those cons use.
Richard Blakemore's Twitter account is here, BTW. He hasn't tweeted much yet and is having some problems comprehending what Twitter is. Also, Twitter doesn't let you list any birthdates befor 1912, which is a problem for parody accounts and accounts of fictional characters, dead people, etc... |
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Post by corabuhlert on Feb 20, 2019 5:04:55 GMT
I was busy with day job stuff today, but I still wrote 1007 words.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 20, 2019 8:28:42 GMT
Good going on the new words even though you were busy. I hope you got your credit card straightened out. That's weird they're so persnickety about cons. I have followed Richard on my Ksennia account! Had a read through his tweets, was quite fun. No new words for me, but I have stuck to an idea for three whole days and only had one temp slip up, so that's something. |
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Post by kateelizabeth on Feb 21, 2019 21:11:38 GMT
This January, I decided to write 500 - 1,000 words a day. I've stuck to it, with some time off for traveling, illness, etc., and I'm almost done with the current novella I've been writing, so, progress.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 22, 2019 3:55:59 GMT
This January, I decided to write 500 - 1,000 words a day. I've stuck to it, with some time off for traveling, illness, etc., and I'm almost done with the current novella I've been writing, so, progress. Fantabulous job!!!! Consistency is the hardest part. Get that down and the rest will follow. Or so people who do that tell me. |
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Post by prolificwriter on Mar 3, 2019 8:12:01 GMT
4,036 words today after not writing for a while. Tomorrow, I finally finish this wretched book! |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Mar 3, 2019 17:22:14 GMT
4,036 words today after not writing for a while. Tomorrow, I finally finish this wretched book! Great job on getting in over four-thousand words and YOU CAN DO IT (finish that wretched book, today)! |
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Post by prolificwriter on Mar 4, 2019 6:34:37 GMT
Thanks, K'Sennia Visitor! And I did finish it! 1,775 words and I’m finally done with this book! |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Mar 5, 2019 3:37:00 GMT
Thanks, K'Sennia Visitor! And I did finish it! 1,775 words and I’m finally done with this book! Woot, woot, yaaaay *does the book finish hop with you* |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Apr 8, 2019 7:15:59 GMT
I wrote 6,623 words today. They are all planning words cos I'm trying again to write a cozy. I learned the last time I tried to write a novel that I absolutely cannot pants it and I can't wait till the end to edit it, cos that just doesn't work for me. So I am planning this baby out the wazoo, and I have already started my Bible with an alphabetical list of character names. Once I get around to descriptions, I'll have an alpha list for those, as well. The plan is to edit mightily as I go so that when I finish and type "the end" I am truly finished.
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Post by prolificwriter on Apr 9, 2019 6:17:38 GMT
That’s awesome, K'Sennia Visitor! I pants all my books and I started a new one today. But I think I already figured out who did it, which is quite rare for me! I wrote 4,130 words today! |
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