A Writer's Life

Publish A Short Story Within A Month A few years ago when I wrote the Zombie Series  Me VS Zombies I wrote a short story every month and published a short story every month. I am working on a new series, and I wanted to write and publish a short story, to get my series going. Yesterday I wrote 6,000 words, It is a rough draft, but I kept writing until I got the jest of the story.  The short story will be around 10,000 words when all is said and done.  This book is going to be a book I will put on Amazon for FREE when the other books are published. The back matter of the book with have my Bio.  I am going to write a Bio which will be the same for all the future books.  Where to Find Me Page Where to Find All My Books I am thinking of this book as an Introduction To The Series.  My goal is have it published in September.  I am thinking of publishing other short stories between the longer books, so the readers will stay interest...

I am old school.  I am not high tech.  I use a flash drive to back up my writing. Yesterday I was writing.  I had to get up and do something.  I pulled down the screen and went and did what I had to do.  I came back and microsoft word was acting funny and closed the program.  I didn't back up what I had just written before I closed my laptop, which I have done many times. So I lost what I have written yesterday. I don't think the writing was brilliant, but the point being, back up your work, because sometimes the computer has a mind of it's own.  Now I have to start writing and will back up my writing before I close the laptop

This may be harsh to hear, but the truth is: No One Cares If You Write If don't write, it will not effect people around you.  Their lives will go on.  Of course if you start making money, everyone will care.  But when you are up early or staying up late, staring at a computer screen, no one cares. I got no support from my family.  Zip, None.  My parents showed no interest in my writing and to this day has never read anything  I wrote.  My mother said  "Why would anyone want to sit in a room and listen to someone talk about writing?  That would be so boring?" My Answer was.  "Why would a much of women want to sit around and quilt in a room for hours with their sewing machines.  That sounds boring." So you have to develop thick skin if you want to be a writer.  Everyone is a critic.  They will tell you what is wrong with the book, before they will tell you what they like about the book.  Wives, husbands...

I have been writing ever since I picked up a #2 Pencil and learned how to write.  I was writing short stories in grade school.  I wrote short stories and sent them to magazines in High School.  I wrote  Always & Forever I went to a major writing conference and had a meeting with an editor and publisher.  I sent it to them, but was rejected.  I have been rejected by every major publishing house in America and every major magazine.  That didn't stop me because I had to write.  It is who I am.  I write, even if no one ever reads my work.  People  become famous after their deaths.  Then Self-Publishing came onto the scene and there is no limit on how many books I can write and publish on Amazon   My books  I have over 70 Books published on Amazon Fiction, Non-Fiction, . How To Get Started In Self-Publishing This Book is how I wrote my  Zombie Series Me VS Zombies I wrote 1-2 short Zombie Stories...

Buy Now This 4 Book Series has been brewing in my head since the beginning of the year, I was writing The Cross before I quit my job and published it after I quit my job.  Then I had another book idea, but I also wanted to  Blog  as I read the Bible this year.  So the Series was brewing in my head.  Now it is screaming to get out. I wrote Book 1.  I had a rough draft finished, just had to be reworked, edit and then published.  Then the question nagged at me.  How is each book connected??? I want each book to be a stand alone book, each book will be years apart.  How will I connect the books.  This morning it was 3 am I woke up and the idea came to me like a bolt of lighting.  I had a small notebook next to me I scribbled down the idea.  One item will connect each book, like it is being passed forward to the next characters.  I have no idea where the idea came from. Just like I have no idea how I wrote, 18,000 ...

In the past 4 days I have written 11,000 words which is 23 pages singled space. As I am writing this week, I am just writing, I have no goal really but am more concern about my page count rather than word count. I can write 1,000 words on anything, an idea, the book I am writing or just write in longhand, but that is not going to get my book written, so I am concentrating on Page Count.  Today I am on page 24, Chapter 4 single spacing.  The past three days I have been sitting in my recliner, in front of the TV watching Sharkfest.  I have tv on for noise and I just sit and type, for 2-3 hours.  I have written 11,000 words just this week which is good for me.  If I keep this up, I will have the rough draft done within 30 days, The book is in my head, I just have to get it on paper and that is what I am doing. What are you working on? Are you doing Word Count or Page Count? Leave a comment and let's get our books written Buy Now

I am writing a 4 Book series, but each book is a stand alone book, but they also will be connected to each in some way. I am using Saving The Cat by Blake Snyder & Save The Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody Blake Snyder    Jessica Brody   I suggest you check out these 2 websites and by at least one of these books. I am going to list the 15 Beat Sheets that is in Save The Cat, On Blake Snyder's website, is a breakdown of several movies on how every movie that is made has these 15 beats in them.  1.  Opening Image First Scene of the Book 2.  Theme Stated  What moral issue is through out the book 3.  The Set-Up  How do you Heroine & Hero live. 4.  Catalyst The thing that will change their lives 5.  Debate They must decide if they should remain status quo or step into something new and unknown 6.  Break Into Act Two The scene where they step into a new world 7.  Fun & Games How it is fun at fir...

This is the first book I wrote on how I write and my schedule, back in 2011, a lot has changed but the one that that hasn't changed and never will change is the that you have to write.  Back in 2011 I wrote a short story every month, sometimes twice a month for an entire year.  Now people are writing a short story a week or a book a week, don't let that get you off track. They will get burned out sooner or later.  Writing is not a sprint, it is a marathon. Even if you write a hundred words a day, you are writing. When I started, I barely could write twenty words a day.  Now I can write 1,000 words and think nothing of it.  5,000 words are the most I wrote in one day and that is when the words flowed out of me and had no idea where they were coming from, but that doesn't happen very often. So I have been blogging, on my other  Blog  I Am Walking With God, as I read through the Bible and this new book series was in my head.  I saw the charac...

Buy Now E-Book & Paperback I know it has been awhile since I have last posted.  I was still writing and self-publishing and blogging This year I told the Lord that I would read the Bible this year and  Blog  on what I read each day.  I learned how to schedule the blogs ahead, so that was my main focus.  I have read the Bible and blogged the last 350 days about what I have read.  I just finished that today.  Yea for me, now I can concentrate on get back to writing the other books God has called me to write I wrote and published this book while I was reading and blogging on the Bible.   Buy Now The name of this post is that I am no longer going to worry about my word count.  The beginning of this year, I was on face book looking to see what others were doing.  There are people out there writing a 50,000 word novel or longer once a month.  What????  I can't do that There are people that want to write a A milli...