Know how I posted a few weeks ago saying I felt something was wrong with the book but I couldn’t see it? Well, 30K further on I can now tell you with assurance that the place where I thought I’d screwed up, I screwed up. I just wasn’t far enough past it to see how to fix it. Now I am, and instead of having 10K to go and anticipating finishing this week, I have 90 freaking thousand words to revise to some degree or another, and will feel lucky…
Author: mizkit
small triumphs
I started the day 800 words behind. I caught up, completed quota, and ended the day 2300 words to the good, for a startling-to-me total of 4100 words, and just over 90K on RAVEN CALLS. I haven’t yet hit the “I have five chapters left” stage, which is normally lurking ’round about now–the conviction that I have five chapters left, and that I will continue to think I have five chapters left, until I suddenly reach the end of the book. In the meantime, I’m doing a reading from and…
dopplegangers
They (“They”) say everybody’s got a doppleganger somewhere in the world. Me, at last count, I had six. I’m reminded of this because Agrimony saw me a few nights ago at a Jeff Duhham show in New England, when she knew perfectly well I was at home sleeping in my bed in Ireland. The first time someone said she knew somebody who looked just like me I was nine years old. I’d just moved into town and was going to a new school and a girl said to me, “You’re…
crowdfunding vs kindle
So during the course of my crowdfunded events people have asked me why I don’t just write something straight for the e-reader market. My biggest reason is “because crowdfunding pays me now, and an e-reader market story might not pay me at all.” It probably would, mind you, but I don’t know how well. Right now with the crowdfunding stuff I’m getting what I’d consider market value for my short stories and novellas–somewhere around $500 for short stories and around $3K for novellas–and that’s an awful damned lot of $.99…
yet more thinks to do
…soon: – call the theatre – vacuum the living room – clean the kitchen – finish getting books signed, enveloped, and addressed – an Elegant Legacy update …this week: – catch up on the 4200 2250 words I’m behind in writing – go to the Steve McCurry photo exhibition – get over this god. damned. cold – update book poster – create new business cards – go to Easons and get address stickers …on Monday, because the post office is probably closed until then: – get books into the mail