Self-Publishing Lesson: Don’t Rush

I have started working on finalizing THE SOUND OF MADNESS to be self-published. I originally wanted to have it self-published in January, but it didn’t feel right so I kind of pushed it aside. When I self-published BARFLY in December 2014, it was for me. It was me conquering my fear of putting “my baby” out there for the world. I knew I could handle rejection from … Continue reading Self-Publishing Lesson: Don’t Rush

THE RIGHT BEGINNING

I have three beginnings for my WIP (work in progress) that I’m calling Goliath. (This is not the real title, it’s just that it’s my Goliath, my Mount Everest as I said in my post “Following Your Joy”.) I’ve been struggling with which one would be the best beginning for this novel. I have written and scraped, rewritten and re-scraped, and put this process on repeat more times than I should have. Continue reading THE RIGHT BEGINNING

30 Day Writing Challenge: Exposing Myself Through Writing

So my friend, Mike, and I are doing a 30 day, 1 post a day writing challenge starting September 1st. We can write about whatever we want as long as we write something/anything and post it. Doesn’t seem hard, right? I struggle with writing 500 words daily in whatever work in progress (WIP) I’m working on! So this is going to be tough while I’m … Continue reading 30 Day Writing Challenge: Exposing Myself Through Writing

Inspired

Yesterday wasn’t a great writing day for me. If I’m going to finish this novel by April 30th, it’s going to be down right impossible if I continue having writing days like yesterday. Why was yesterday so bad? I wrote ZERO words. It takes words to fill a page…pages to fill a chapter…chapters to fill a book. I accomplished a big fat nothing. I tried. … Continue reading Inspired