Writerly Ways
Jan. 14th, 2018 01:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessFirst off congrats to silvrethorn for selling her novella!
Secondly, swear to godtinhutlady I WILL edit something soon. Now I'm just being willfully lazy (okay technically I don't remember where i put the print out)
Today my message is understand how you work best. Because I'm NOT working to my best. I am, however, doing a bit better and the reason is I know I work better if I'm 'in competition' with someone else. I need an outside motivator. That was hammered home in nano with the word sprints.
So I've been following around the write every day challenge a bit more doggedly and I signed up for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
inkingitout which isn't so much competition (either of these) as they are accountability sites. I don't stress about them though which would be counterproductive but they do let me see if I'm working or slacking off. Sometimes I have good reasons for slacking (day job for example) others less so.
Also I've found someone for the time being (because who knows we might tire of) who I chat with almost nightly and we hold each other's feet over the fire. That has been a big help. My usual chat people aren't around much any more and I missed that.
Links from around the web - #1 enemy of writers.
become a demanding self editor
what editing software can teach us I'm torn between actually investing in the software or keep doing what I'm doing now and looking for some of the things it searches for using the search functions in Word.
Seven Attributes Of Exquisite Writing
Narrative structure
best time to sell your book
15 Book Publicity Commandments (some of these are eye rolling like sending a hand written thank you to people featuring your book/reviewing it. Yeah, like we even KNOW the address for these people these days.
The #1 mistake of self-published authors for worldwide book sales
ASK THE WENDIGO: MY ADVICE TO A YOUNG WRITER
write with intention
New Year’s resolutions for indie authors frankly the qualifier of indie here isn't needed, this is good advice for all.
being an author and mother
and from Betty - the power of failure
writing fearlessly
secrets of good story telling
first lines
why readers stop caring I want to add 'characters did things too stupid to live' that stops me more than anything listed here. Yeah we all make mistakes but when characters do something so incredibly dumb I just can't stay with it.
How to write a great author bio that will connect with readers here’s mine see what you think. I was aiming more for whimsy and less of the stodgy.
Yearly word count -
3505 / 100000 words. 4% done!
Sacred Kin -
17742 / 30000 words. 59% done!
Haunted Hills
47514 / 75000 words. 63% done!
Rose Island (a new lesbian short story I've started)
214 / 12000 words. 2% done!
Splinters- edited ch 1
silvrethorn for selling her novella!Secondly, swear to god
tinhutlady I WILL edit something soon. Now I'm just being willfully lazy (okay technically I don't remember where i put the print out)Today my message is understand how you work best. Because I'm NOT working to my best. I am, however, doing a bit better and the reason is I know I work better if I'm 'in competition' with someone else. I need an outside motivator. That was hammered home in nano with the word sprints.
So I've been following around the write every day challenge a bit more doggedly and I signed up for
inkingitout which isn't so much competition (either of these) as they are accountability sites. I don't stress about them though which would be counterproductive but they do let me see if I'm working or slacking off. Sometimes I have good reasons for slacking (day job for example) others less so.Also I've found someone for the time being (because who knows we might tire of) who I chat with almost nightly and we hold each other's feet over the fire. That has been a big help. My usual chat people aren't around much any more and I missed that.
Links from around the web - #1 enemy of writers.
become a demanding self editor
what editing software can teach us I'm torn between actually investing in the software or keep doing what I'm doing now and looking for some of the things it searches for using the search functions in Word.
Seven Attributes Of Exquisite Writing
Narrative structure
best time to sell your book
15 Book Publicity Commandments (some of these are eye rolling like sending a hand written thank you to people featuring your book/reviewing it. Yeah, like we even KNOW the address for these people these days.
The #1 mistake of self-published authors for worldwide book sales
ASK THE WENDIGO: MY ADVICE TO A YOUNG WRITER
write with intention
New Year’s resolutions for indie authors frankly the qualifier of indie here isn't needed, this is good advice for all.
being an author and mother
and from Betty - the power of failure
writing fearlessly
secrets of good story telling
first lines
why readers stop caring I want to add 'characters did things too stupid to live' that stops me more than anything listed here. Yeah we all make mistakes but when characters do something so incredibly dumb I just can't stay with it.
How to write a great author bio that will connect with readers here’s mine see what you think. I was aiming more for whimsy and less of the stodgy.
Yearly word count -
Sacred Kin -
Haunted Hills
Rose Island (a new lesbian short story I've started)
Splinters- edited ch 1
