New Pic

I've GOT to put up a new pic. I'm not the prettiest boy in the room but alot more friendly looking that that picture gives off.

Lots and lots of post

Like I said, I'm working a shift. And may volunteer to work a shift tomorrow. Again, I take good care of family needs. I'm way ahead of my monthly bill schedule, and my son needs a new dresser for his room.

Anyway, the JOB is excellent for thinking, plotting. I'm probably going to be running off at the blog today though the post won't come through till I get back to the laptop tonight. It's the one drawback to using the blogger app, unless I'm doing something wrong which is entirely possible.

What I do want to figure out is how many quality stories or books can I conceivably produce in a calendar year? And what type?

I want to figure this out soon.

Breakthrough

It's early. And I've got to work a shift today but I feel like I've made a breakthrough with the inner voice problem. I haven't felt this positive in weeks.

I did some reading yesterday. James Clavell (RIP) of Shogun fame. C J Cherryh who is an award winning SCFI writer. I even went over to her blog, and remembered some advice I'd written down about prose and active voice. It all made sense. She says this alot: Follow no rule off a cliff. It's so true. I'm guilty of this. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.

UGH!! That inner voice

I'm struggling with it as usual.

Think about this readers: I have a full first draft of a novel (over 144000 words)
                                         I have the first draft of a short story (over 6000 words)

And yet, I've been stuck on finishing a second draft because of this dreaded inner voice. Here is an example of what mine says to me:

Your an idiot: No one wants to reader this garbage.

You are a one hit wonder. Waiting is an average short story and you won't ever tell a better story.

What?! You are doing this for free! What are you thinking?

There are dozens of ways to better spend your time. Why don't you give one of them a whirl.

Wow

I'm continuing to move downloads on four of the big five (sony, itunes, kobo, and barnes and noble). I especially seem to be doing well on the first three.

I know that many people make the argument that many people who take advantge of free downloads are not true readers but downloaders. I won't argue that point either way. I just know that downloads of my two works are moving a bit and I'm happy with that. 

Series

Always difficult to write prose with family here. So when they are, I try to accomplish other things: Plotting or in case of today world building.

The Novella titles are going to be either one of two things:

A very near future detective series wrapped around a SCFI theme, or if you will, a SC FI series wrapped around a detective theme.

In this near future crime is so prevalent in a place known as The City that when a murder occurs in the city limits, it's investigation is brokered out to investigative firms. Our firm is called Crime and Punishment and it's lead investigator is named Roland.

He has a number of allies and adversaries that will appear often in the series. I'm working on  these people as well as the backdrop of the City as well, which will be very important to the overall feel of the series.

Each title will mirror the other. Example: Necessary Fear. Constant Fear. Abandoning Fear.

What's to fear? Residents of the City often refer to it as Fear. But the main reason is that Roland suffers from genetic condition that causes him to suffer from phobias. His condition worsens as he stresses. These Phobias evolve every 30 days. There is no cure. And yet he goes about his work as professionally as he can.

Digital Donna

Oh yea. I'm also strongly considering paying someone to do the covers for Children and my Novellas. Anyone who may need this service should consider using Digital Donna. Check out her blog. I haven't used her but she is highly recommended by Smashwords and her work featured on her site is wonderful.