Project Scorch, one more chapter. I swear. One more chapter.
I feel like I wasn’t able to execute the epic arena scene well, but anyway, that’s okay, because I’ll edit it one day and make it epic. I’ve never written an arena battle situation before.
Constantly having to remind myself that it’s snowing in my book XD I forget all about Long Winter and also Deep Winter which is what they’re called for now. Deep Winter is when it gets so cold, the snow is more like ice.
24 more or less. Some are long poems. You? I got to the part of the publishing process on D2D where you can pick where you want to distribute to and I honestly didn’t recognize most of what was listed. I’m not sure what’s worth selecting. 
And then I realized Kindle was it’s own separate process. Now I’m procrastinating. 
I got 22. And some span four pages 
Same! It’s weird, isn’t it? But I heard Kobo is good to select for e-books
Kindle does kind of have its own process. Setting up to be part of their the Amazon author program was such a terrible and long and anxious process, and they take forever to list your book on their site…but if you do it once, you never have to do it again 
I think if you got Barnes & Noble, and Kobo, and borrowbox (Kobo and borrowbox I’m mentioning because some readers and writers on IG have said they use it), then you should be set, that is, if you don’t want to do Kindle. But that’s for E-book. I think there were more options for paperback. I can’t remember 
I just had someone critique my writing and while it did sting a bit, it helped me realize that I suck strongly at tenses, prose, and I am so redundant too.
I’m in the middle of setting up my KDP poetry chapbook! I can publish it tonight, but I think I’m going to stop right before publishing it. It’s late at night and feels too much like deploying code on a Friday night before going off for the weekend. Terrible idea.
Aaaah, I’m scared! And excited! And scared! I know I have at least 2 real life supporters so that’s helping me. Worst comes to worst, 2 people will buy it.
Good luck! I hope you sell a ton of copies. Do you have a marketing plan in place? I still say Milo Winter has the best marketing plan ever: talk and talk and talk about a book for five years before you ever publish it, then put it up for sale in the TikTok shop so TikTok HQ will blast your posts to millions of people who don’t even follow you. Talk about going viral! Then you’ll get literally thousands of pre-orders and make six figures just from that. As long as the book is properly edited, it should work out great! ٩(˘◡˘)۶
I’m still thinking about chapter seven and I want to change it so badly.
Au contraire, I’m pretty sure I have before lol. (But, tbf, you don’t really need to know HOW to use em-dashes if you’re only writing research papers)
Yesterday I wrote a little over 2 pages on this scene I’ve been writing/rewriting (I wrote a version of the same scene in 2020, but I’m rewriting it completely in a different PoV and verb tense, to experiment.) Today I only managed about 100 words (I’m writing analog, so I don’t have an exact word count atm) which is a bit frustrating because I feel like I’m quite close to finishing the scene. Maybe I will try to work on it a little more tonight, and tomorrow morning if not. I’d really like to finish this scene tomorrow at the latest, which should be an achievable goal even for me; I think I only have a page or so left, maybe less.
leave my 2022 opinions alone
Nope. Zero marketing plan. I’ve been interacting a lot of social media for the sake of finding a job so adding marketing to sell a book on top of that would be… woof. Social media is job in itself.
Poetry doesn’t seem to have a big audience or good chances of selling in the first place, so I’m not expecting much. My novel on the other hand, it’d be nice to draw my OCs on Twitter for a while until hopefully people are curious enough that they want to know more about them. Then bam! Novel!
But that also requires me to commit myself to drawing again. Eventually.
y’all i got my first 1 star review 
lol Gallows Humour is ‘confusing’.
i was lowkey expecting it tho, some older folks bought it at the book fest a couple weeks ago (much to my surprise) and i highly suspect the confusing part is the they/them mc and the it/its sc.
or it could be the plot, who knows, GH is not my strongest plot to be totally fair. pretty pulpy, that one. oh well i’m a cool author now, i have haters XD
I wish people gave more constructive criticism because then it just leaves you guessing what it was they didn’t like. It’s fine if people just don’t like certain things. Not everything is everyone’s cup of tea but to be so vague with feedback - ugh. I also wish people would separate “This isn’t my cup of tea” with “It’s well written.” Both can be true. But yay! If you’ve got some haters in the mix, could be you’re doing something right.
I’ve halted on publishing my poetry chapbook because I realized there was this one poem that I knew I wrote, and for the life of me was like, what was it again? Realized it was the poem that won a contest in High School and was added into the back of our yearbook. It represents a generation with references to slang, music lyrics, how teens thought back then. I thought it was relevant to bring into this chapbook so I’m going to edit/update it, since it’s been like 20 years God I’m old, and then add it to the collection. 
exactly this, like I respect your opinion but I’d like to be able to use your feedback to improve and I can’t do that if you’re being vague.
yeah, i mean, obviously everyone is entitled to their subjective opinion on what ‘well written’ is (and i can’t make the arguement that my books are well written because i’m too biased lmao), and i think reading as a leisure activity shouldn’t be gatekept just to people who ‘understand’ it. But sometimes i see reviews from people who clearly just didn’t get what they were reading and they’re so mad about it. like it’s okay if you hate the formatting of House of Leaves but that’s a fundamental part of what makes it a unique, exploratory book.
that’s what i’m telling myself
I need to learn how to edit and revise my stories.
I have this new unhealthy procrastination habit where instead of editing my existing novel’s chapters or adding new ones that belong in the story’s timeline, I write “fanfic” scenes of stuff I know won’t end up in any of the books or scenes for a future book that’s yet to be written. The power of procrastination is real.
I need to learn how to stop editing so I can continue writing new chapters instead of tweaking the same existing chapters over and over. We should switch habits lol.
I feel like I should go back to editing my main novel even though I’m still working on the prequel. I feel like the main novel’s story is stronger, more interesting… But that could also be because it’s technically been written 2.5 times. The first time, a fanfiction on minor characters in a fandom, then the first draft as an original story, now the second draft where I stopped maybe a fourth of the way through because I got inspired to write a prequel. (or I was looking for an excuse to procrastinate)
So for the prequel, this is it’s first iteration. I’m still figuring it out. (sigh) How are there people that literally spit multiple novels out so quickly? What is this magic? 