M.H. Bonham's Blog, page 7
December 26, 2013
My tweets
Wed, 12:07
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Thu, 00:55
: The Sky Warrior Books Daily is out! http://t.co/OXeX3cWqxR Stories via @DanelleHarmon @topebookreaders
Thu, 02:19
: 12 Days of Savings from Sky Warrior Books! #constantcontact http://t.co/tWukVAfgaT
December 25, 2013
My tweets
Tue, 12:20
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Wed, 00:55
: The Sky Warrior Books Daily is out! http://t.co/OXeX3cWqxR Stories via @Ostslukaren @TheeReaderCafe
Wed, 02:07
: Merry Christmas http://t.co/Ng5XUe2bbS
Merry Christmas
Merru Christmas, Happy Yule, Happy Holidays, or whatever else you celebrate! May you have a sfe an wonderful holidays.
December 24, 2013
My tweets
Mon, 12:29
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Tue, 00:55
: The Sky Warrior Books Daily is out! http://t.co/OXeX3cWqxR Stories via @TecheBooks @ChrisLongmuir
December 23, 2013
My tweets
Sun, 12:03
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Sun, 17:56
: Losing Faith, and Other Connundrums http://t.co/WiHtpv7AZ3
Mon, 00:55
: The Sky Warrior Books Daily is out! http://t.co/OXeX3cWqxR Stories via @KerineJWF @SharonStruth
December 22, 2013
Losing Faith, and Other Connundrums
It's been a long while since I've posted to this account. Not because I haven't had things to say, but because I've been busy with the business and other things.
I'd like to say my writing has taken off, but it hasn't. Instead, it has been a fight. Which annoys me greatly. I've watched and helped other writers find their voice, which has been satisfying, to a certain extent. But now Lachlan has been impatiently waiting for me to tell his story.
Why? Because it's unfinished. And because there's a lot to write about. More than I suspected at first.
Maybe I had to grow as a writer. Maybe I had to stop being lazy. Maybe I had to understand a part of myself first. Whatever the reason, I realized that somewhere along the way, I lost the unshakable faith in myself. I knew why, but about a week ago, I was reading the book The Wealthy Freelancer. Yeah, I've been feeling like I'm anything but wealthy. So, when I hit a passage about how wealthy freelancers have an unshakable faith in themselves, something clicked. More than clicked. More like screamed, "YES!"
I didn't have any faith in myself as a writer. Not anymore.
Suddenly, the light turned on. Years of not getting things done suddenly became crystal clear to me. I had lost faith in myself. I knew this already. But the obvious answer was I wasn't going to regain it easily. The Web of Wyrd sat on my computer in bits and pieces -- 65K of story that was terribly unfinished and yet, I didn't know what to do with it. All the time I wrote and edited, it became a bigger mess with no apparent way to wrap the story up properly.
And yet, recently I realized it's a mess for a reason. I was trying to stuff too much stuff in a 100K book. (This, incidently was the problem with Runestone of Teiwas when I had to rewrite it for publication.) I think I try to stuff 20 lbs of crap in a 5 lb sack. Laudable, I suppose, but not a good idea. I took a piece of software I had bought called Writer's Cafe that gave me a way to outline via scenes and I outlined the first damn book. Renamed that book to The Jotunn Gate and even made tweaks on the ending last night and today. Now, I'm taking scenes and cutting them out of the former manuscript and giving them a scene name corresponding to the title of the book and the scene number. That should get me further along than I have been. At least I'll know what I need to write to finish the book.
I'd like to say my writing has taken off, but it hasn't. Instead, it has been a fight. Which annoys me greatly. I've watched and helped other writers find their voice, which has been satisfying, to a certain extent. But now Lachlan has been impatiently waiting for me to tell his story.
Why? Because it's unfinished. And because there's a lot to write about. More than I suspected at first.
Maybe I had to grow as a writer. Maybe I had to stop being lazy. Maybe I had to understand a part of myself first. Whatever the reason, I realized that somewhere along the way, I lost the unshakable faith in myself. I knew why, but about a week ago, I was reading the book The Wealthy Freelancer. Yeah, I've been feeling like I'm anything but wealthy. So, when I hit a passage about how wealthy freelancers have an unshakable faith in themselves, something clicked. More than clicked. More like screamed, "YES!"
I didn't have any faith in myself as a writer. Not anymore.
Suddenly, the light turned on. Years of not getting things done suddenly became crystal clear to me. I had lost faith in myself. I knew this already. But the obvious answer was I wasn't going to regain it easily. The Web of Wyrd sat on my computer in bits and pieces -- 65K of story that was terribly unfinished and yet, I didn't know what to do with it. All the time I wrote and edited, it became a bigger mess with no apparent way to wrap the story up properly.
And yet, recently I realized it's a mess for a reason. I was trying to stuff too much stuff in a 100K book. (This, incidently was the problem with Runestone of Teiwas when I had to rewrite it for publication.) I think I try to stuff 20 lbs of crap in a 5 lb sack. Laudable, I suppose, but not a good idea. I took a piece of software I had bought called Writer's Cafe that gave me a way to outline via scenes and I outlined the first damn book. Renamed that book to The Jotunn Gate and even made tweaks on the ending last night and today. Now, I'm taking scenes and cutting them out of the former manuscript and giving them a scene name corresponding to the title of the book and the scene number. That should get me further along than I have been. At least I'll know what I need to write to finish the book.
My tweets
Sat, 12:16
: My tweets http://t.co/LwYFegnZp8
Sun, 00:55
: The Sky Warrior Books Daily is out! http://t.co/OXeX3cWqxR Stories via @DeannaJewel @Rebecca_Lang
December 21, 2013
My tweets
Fri, 12:08
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Sat, 00:55
: The Sky Warrior Books Daily is out! http://t.co/OXeX3cWqxR Stories via @CarolineC1988 @ActScribblerDJ
December 20, 2013
My tweets
Thu, 12:44
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Fri, 00:55
: The Sky Warrior Books Daily is out! http://t.co/OXeX3cWqxR Stories via @NapoliFansUK @Packt_Paush
December 19, 2013
My tweets
Wed, 12:13
: My tweets http://t.co/gkHndXEOJr
Thu, 00:55
: The Sky Warrior Books Daily is out! http://t.co/OXeX3cWqxR Stories via @Top_authors @jshermanmilton
