The toughest part of this challenge has been to make sure I put as much time into editing my books as I do writing them. My book, 1,000 Character Writing Prompts: Villains, Heroes and Hams for Scripts, Stories and More, is now in the proper order, has a kick-ass cover and is poised to be my next big hit. The only issue is that it's not edited and has plenty of errors and poorly phrased sentences that need tuning up. I need to set aside about 15 hours to edit this puppy from start to finish and add a few hours to the end of that for some formatting. These are the parts of writing I don't enjoy, but until I get to the point that I can afford a full-time editor, I will have to take on some of these responsibilities myself.
I have given myself a bit of breathing room by hiring an assistant for some formatting work, but because she can only work six hours a day, I'm mostly using her to set up future project work, including putting my prompts in order for my series, The Writing Prompts Workbook. After that, I'll have her help me to put the 365 writing prompts in order for The Writing Prompts Journal. If I can get all of those formatted and ready to go, I may be able to release 8 books all around the same time. In a few months, perhaps those books would lead to a doubling or tripling of sales for me! A man's gotta dream, right?
In the writing world today, I added a few more scenes to my sci-fi, detective, young adult mystery book, Identity Interrupted and I wrote a blog post called stumbling ahead about the value of leaping before you look when you get completely stuck or confused.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Day 21: The Beat Goes On
Today I completed my first draft for the happiness book...and then immediately didn't feel like writing anything. Since I'm on a 365 day challenge however, I need to push through it with another 1,523 words left to write before the day is done :). The editing process for the book will be interesting, because I still plan on working on creating a new book while editing the first one. I hope that I can handle the workload and get this book out to market in a reasonable amount of time!
Today in the writing blog I wrote about the importance of location when writing and some various suggestions for being more productive than you can be in your distracting apartment. I also cleaned an oven today, but of course, that has little to do with writing or does it (it doesn't).
Today in the writing blog I wrote about the importance of location when writing and some various suggestions for being more productive than you can be in your distracting apartment. I also cleaned an oven today, but of course, that has little to do with writing or does it (it doesn't).
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