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Post by corabuhlert on Nov 9, 2018 5:54:47 GMT
K'Sennia VisitorThanks. I was initially planning to use another image by the same artist, but when I made a cover mock-up, this one worked much better. Okay, so the gladiators in my novel fight with blades rather than staffs, but considering how many gladiator fights I had to write, one of them can just as well wield a staff. Puzzle publishing sounds interesting. You can still find puzzle mags in every supermarket or newstand and plenty of people buy them. So I imagine there is an online market for the e-book version.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 9, 2018 7:36:56 GMT
Quick and Easy Puzzle Book Business is a good course if you're ever interested in it. It is not quick or easy, nor are any of the long, plodding videos.  But Shawn Hansen has good material even if she is a bit stiff and unyielding in her views. You can't publish puzzle books as ebooks on amazon, but you could sell them on your own website or on etsy or sell the PLR rights on JVZoo. Those who publish through amazon and other book retailers always sell print books. |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 9, 2018 13:57:07 GMT
I drank Dr Pepper so have been up all night and I have been productive. First I republished all my books that I'd unpublished. *teehee* I made two new covers for books that needed them. The covers are not better, but at least they allowed me to republish them. And then I decided to take my ghost story and turn it into a 5-story combo pack, and I fixed the cover so cemetery is spelled correctly, and I tried doing a paperback for it, but I think I may have accidentally made a cover without a title on it. Oopsadoodle! I'm still learning the ropes with paperbacks. It's only the second one I've done ever. But I did learn how to add page numbers in WPS. And how to add a TOC with page numbers, as well. So baby steps!
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Post by robertlcollins on Nov 9, 2018 21:26:09 GMT
So, after a couple of days of plotting I figured out my new story project. I've started writing it today. Seems like a good start, and I am feeling interested and excited about the idea, the plot, the characters, and the world.
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Post by robertlcollins on Nov 18, 2018 19:42:00 GMT
I'm moving forward with the new project. Seems like it's going to be fairly substantial, maybe even a full-length novel. I'm a handful of chapters in right now. I also seem excited enough about the world to want to write at least one more work in it; I'm plotting that out when I'm not writing.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Nov 19, 2018 6:11:14 GMT
Schweet. Fab job on moving forward with your new project. Feeling excited about our work is the best part. (nods pen)
May you write long and prosperously plot!
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Post by writeway on Nov 19, 2018 10:57:57 GMT
Thinking of taking the week off from my WIP or at least some days. I'm using Thanksgiving as an excuse though I'm a reclusive homebody who won't be doing anything but eating and watching football and Netflix. I usually write straight through the holidays. They are just days to me though Thanksgiving is my favorite because I like to eat. We'll see how I feel in a few days and whether or not that "not-writing" guilt hits me and I decide to bust out some words after all. |
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Post by corabuhlert on Nov 20, 2018 4:33:40 GMT
I got some work done on what I hope will be this year's Christmas story. It's part of my Hallowind Cove series about a quirky seaside town where strange things happen.
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Post by polydactylcat on Nov 20, 2018 4:39:41 GMT
I've written a lot of words, none of which are actually useful or on any of my current projects. But they are words!
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Post by corabuhlert on Nov 29, 2018 3:35:37 GMT
Words are always good, polydactylcatI've been writing and I also sent two poems out to a magazine today and a review of an anthology to the site that asked for it. |
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Post by robertlcollins on Dec 1, 2018 14:57:32 GMT
Writing has been steady. I'll have a blog post Monday about how much I wrote in November. I can say that I'm not yet to the middle of the current project, and the length is already 45K words. If that continues I should have a proper novel-length book written when it's done.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Dec 1, 2018 18:28:42 GMT
Writing has been steady. I'll have a blog post Monday about how much I wrote in November. I can say that I'm not yet to the middle of the current project, and the length is already 45K words. If that continues I should have a proper novel-length book written when it's done. Noice! Congrats for your new future novel!!! I've drawn a couple of maps and written around 7 thousand words on worldbuilding over the past few days. So that was good, but I really can't take my multiverse and confine it to one supercontinent, probably. And I don't really want to. I was just being lazy. So right now I'm trying to learn all the science and history stuff I never learned in school and will hopefully be giving going back through my archive one last try to make sense of it all. The words writing was really nice though! |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Dec 3, 2018 7:48:29 GMT
I got rejected for the job for being a sucky writer. But my friend got in, so that's cool.
I'm going to be depressed for a while, and then I don't know what I'll do.
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Post by dormouse on Dec 3, 2018 15:18:34 GMT
I got rejected for the job for being a sucky writer. Very sorry to hear that. Rejection is always painful. Even when it's for something you don't want. And even when you're useful to it because you're a writer. But I doubt they said you were sucky. More like 'we're a plain round hole and you seem like a square peg'. |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Dec 3, 2018 15:46:21 GMT
No, he specifically said it was because I wasn't a good enough writer. I was one of 80 writers who weren't good enough. We all got the same form email cos it was a contest, but I don't think being added to a "sucky writers" pile is any different than a personal, "you suck." It means the same.
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Post by dormouse on Dec 3, 2018 18:30:23 GMT
That's dreadful. And inevitably wrongheaded. As per:
Rudyard Kipling: I’m sorry Mr. Kipling, but you just don’t know how to use the English language.
Only consolation is that it's better to avoid employers who think in such black and white terms and have no awareness of subjectivity error.
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Post by corabuhlert on Dec 4, 2018 4:36:50 GMT
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Dec 5, 2018 3:27:44 GMT
Thanks Cora  I am over it today and seeing it as a sign that I need to focus on publishing. I have been super productive, today. And frazzled, and frizzled. And now I'm exhausted. I republished books, messed with paperbacks, one got through, the other got sent to the corner. I did some important organizational shit. The best part about today was that everything I did was totally under my control. Even the failures. At least they were mine. And I didn't have to wait on anyone for anything. So that was nice. And writing courses really do fuck all for you. I don't need 'em. Let's see what tomorrow brings!
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Post by Jeff Tanyard on Dec 6, 2018 6:45:48 GMT
No, he specifically said it was because I wasn't a good enough writer. I was one of 80 writers who weren't good enough. We all got the same form email cos it was a contest, but I don't think being added to a "sucky writers" pile is any different than a personal, "you suck." It means the same.
Sorry to hear that. 
You're an inspiration.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Dec 6, 2018 7:26:23 GMT
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Post by robertlcollins on Dec 15, 2018 21:08:29 GMT
Quick update to the book I'm working on: it's 39 chapters, and right now I'm in the middle of Chapter 26, so I'm about 2/3 through. Present word count is right about 75,000. If this continues, I might have a novel that breaks 100K (which would be my first at that length). The writing is moving along. Fingers crossed for a good end to the year!
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Post by corabuhlert on Dec 17, 2018 5:30:01 GMT
Fingers crossed for the final third, robertlcollinsMeanwhile, I published three Hallowind Cove stories in the space of a week, the last of them today. I'm feeling very accomplished now. |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Dec 17, 2018 7:00:41 GMT
3 in a week beats my 2 in a day, great job, corabuhlert! |
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Post by robertlcollins on Jan 9, 2019 15:48:51 GMT
Finished the novel yesterday. It came in at 115,000 words. This is my first novel to break 100K words, and the longest novel I've written. I'm taking today to get some publishing work done. I expect to start on the new project tomorrow.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Jan 10, 2019 2:34:19 GMT
Finished the novel yesterday. It came in at 115,000 words. This is my first novel to break 100K words, and the longest novel I've written. I'm taking today to get some publishing work done. I expect to start on the new project tomorrow. Well done! Congrats on finishing and for your new record.  |
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Post by corabuhlert on Jan 10, 2019 5:09:06 GMT
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Post by robertlcollins on Feb 2, 2019 21:38:54 GMT
Gosh, haven't posted in this thread in a month. Time to update the progress on the next book, then. Right now the book is at just over 54,000 words. I'm in the middle of Chapter 15 (of 39). The writing's been humming along, though I didn't write quite as much as I could have in January. I took some of my writing session time and changed my ebook distribution. I'm no longer using Smashwords to distribute to B&N, Apple, & Kobo, but instead I'm uploading direct to those stores. I start edits this month on the book I'm planning to release in March. I don't know if that will get in the way of writing, since my plan is to edit outside of my writing sessions. I guess I'll find out if that works or not. Hope everyone else is doing good. |
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 2, 2019 21:44:30 GMT
Wow, 54,000 words, and you aren't done yet. Terrific!!! Boo on edits unless you enjoy them, then YAY. Going direct puts more money in your pocket, well done on getting richer. |
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Post by Jeff Tanyard on Feb 16, 2019 2:03:56 GMT
I published a book.
Took me about a year to get this one done, but it's also my longest one yet at 129k words.
I've got some outlining to do before I start the next draft. I think the outline for book 4 is pretty much done, but I need to work on the outlines for the final four books, and that means I might have to go back and tweak some things in the book 4 outline.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Feb 16, 2019 2:59:02 GMT
I published a book. Took me about a year to get this one done, but it's also my longest one yet at 129k words. I've got some outlining to do before I start the next draft. I think the outline for book 4 is pretty much done, but I need to work on the outlines for the final four books, and that means I might have to go back and tweak some things in the book 4 outline.
Fantabulous job. Congrats!!!!  |
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But Shawn Hansen has good material even if she is a bit stiff and unyielding in her views. You can't publish puzzle books as ebooks on amazon, but you could sell them on your own website or on etsy or sell the PLR rights on JVZoo. Those who publish through amazon and other book retailers always sell print books. 
I am over it today and seeing it as a sign that I need to focus on publishing. 
