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The Earthlings is FREE

The Earthlings is my next free gift for the holidays! Relaa and Macbeth survive leaving earth but will they survive the planet they've been taken to?The Earthlings

I'm Giving This Month

I give all my novels away for free in December because it's the gift I have to give. Return To Limerick was first up and this week it's my science fiction adventure Iolon Star. It's FREE now until Monday!

Happy Holidays I hope your holiday season is cheery and bright!
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Limerick Alley...my new podcast devoted to the Limericks you all have liked enough for me to jump in.

 My latest endeavor that I'm having a blast at and it's going swimmingly well is the creation of the podcast Limerick Alley. For longer then I want to reveal but trust me it's a long time, I've loved writing limericks. Luckily others like my limericks too and after Wordpress introduced me to converting posts to a podcast, I leaped in. 

I started Limerick Alley. It's a podcast dedicated to limericks. Want a chuckle?  A little compact one minute lyrical story? Then you'll like limericks. Check my podcast out and I hope you have fun with it. 

Limerick Alley

I Got Through It and Then I Got Through It

 

I started writing a new script yesterday which felt really good. A script request caught my eye and I have a story I think fits what they're looking for. I even have a deadline and that made me feel even better and that's probably tied to my old life that had tons of deadlines. I also sent out another script that a lot of people liked. It was a relief to bring everything back to normal. Back to the, I write and I wait, life. That's my normal.

This morning, I read an interview of a very successful screenwriter. It was a great read but it made my stomach churn. My ideal world is I write, I sell, I write more that's easier to get considered reads to sell and on and on it goes. I don't want another office job and he made it seem like that's part of this path. 

 I'm still waiting for final decisions and no one has passed on that script. That crazy reality put the brakes on my writing endeavor for longer then I care to admit to. I'm glad to get back to my norm or at least close to it. I don't want an office job but the reality is, I hope I get to find out how it really goes. I'm ready for anything and either way I'm sure it's a wild ride.

Goodbye 2020 and Hooray to 2021!

 

I know we all feel like the title to this post. Wow, what a year full of crazy it was! I look back and am pleased with my writing output and I'm still at it. Of course I am because if you've been paying attention to this blog at all you know that writing is a compulsion of mine.

I'm in flux right now since the feature script getting all the attention was written with a lot of my own pain inside of it, so it was particularly hard to write. I am not a fan of painful writing so I hope that's not the only path to selling scripts.  

Luckily I love writing fairy tales and I have an opportunity right now that is very juicy in that regard. I have a fairy tale trilogy that could go well beyond that. It's fun to write and I get depressed at every conclusion because I want to stay in that fairy tale land when it comes to writing. If you do something daily like I do where do you want to live? Fairy tale cuteness or pain and sadness? 

2020 gave me another published short which was wonderful and I look forward to it coming out in March 2021 in Common Tongue Magazine's first edition. When Lightening the Way was published Soft Cartel let me know it was peaking their hits to a level they investigated it trying to find out what was going on. That was very cool and my writing partner keeps bugging me to write that as a feature script. I might, but I have a lot of other projects. 

Also in 2020 a feature script, you know that one with all the pain in it, is in consideration with two movie production companies and one producer. I am hoping it's my breakthrough but again I have fear that what they will want in future scripts is more pain. Luckily I have a good opportunity at the same time on one of my fairy tales so maybe if that goes too I won't get pigeonholed into one thing when it comes to writing. That would be really rough too since I also love writing science fiction. 

Hey I also know my life may mean I only sell one, but that one they are all considering right now, I think if it gets made it's going to go very big. Let's just say I think we can all relate and visually it should be pretty stunning. 

Lastly, in 2020 I actually started winning at poker and literally won money in six different  games within a couple of weeks. That event caused a reaction from the platform I had the run of luck and it wasn't a good one unfortunately, even though I thought they were the champions of poker play. Oh well, so it goes, writing is my real passion and poker was my distraction between writing. 

So hope you feel good about some parts of 2020 because I do and I bet if you look for it you will find good things that happened in your life too this year. Like you, however, I've never been so ready to kick out this year to get to 2021. I am definitely going to celebrate the New Year! Let's all do that!

I'm Not Trusting Machines Anymore

 

I grew up in one of the generations where computers weren't there and then they were there. I've been an advocate of the whole project since I was first exposed to it all. I realize now that my faith in machines was over the top. I trusted that spell checks et al would catch every error especially since I had yet another program backing that up before I published, I felt confident everything was A+.

Yes, I did the manual visual critical edit but that was close in time to writing it and I know that I'm too close to it to be able to see the errors. My brain passes right over them like there's no flies on the canvas even if there are. 

Recently on a novel that got a lot of love across a ton of platforms online over the years also got a lot of "fix it" love to go with those glowing bravos. I wondered how could that be? I would peruse the novel, run a spell check again that said A+ and I couldn't understand it. 

Finally and recently I decided to sit down and edit that novel. Why? Because on a feature script that right now might actually have a shot at being made a read through revealed weird capital S's in odd places. I trusted that program too but I decided to sit down with that novel now because I realized I really can't trust machines the way I have been.

I've spent a week so far and I'm almost done but is it going to be perfect? I'm hoping so because after not reading that novel for years I think I got there, where it needs to be so the reader doesn't stub their toes on stones on the road of what they say is a great story. I want the full Bravo, I love that story too. 

So I'm not trusting machines anymore. I hope to be able to finish a novel, script and send it off to editors that happily wait to fix it. That's one of my future goals. For now, I have to rely on myself and machines but I am not trusting them as much anymore. 

I write on excited to put out the Second Edition of The Earthlings, soon. Thanks to everyone who told me about what their reader eyes saw and loved the story enough to save it. I think that's wonderful!

Another Short Story Is Being Published!

 Okay so I am a little behind the bell here. But this place is my quietest place when it comes to posts I do. It fired up just recently because I have a script that three movie production companies have given me the signal they dig it. That's catapulted me into another world that I am swimming around happily in. How could three dig it and not do it? I don't think that's the outcome on this one. They checked me out which cause the recent spikes on every one of my little writing hang outs online, hey that's fine, it's the world we're all in now. I'm a writer, they found that out.

A Halloween Limerick

 A writer walked into a room,Filled with witches holding brooms,She said, "Hey! Do witches read?",The witches all sneezed.One witch exclaimed,"Are you insane? We have no time,For silly rhymes!""I don't write rhymes,I write books of loreYou surely will adore!"The witches heavedFell to their knees.Bats began to fly,
The witches began to cry,The writer sighed,Left her book by their side,And dried their crying eyes.
One witch grabbed the book,Using a long hook,She began to read,Laughing she got off her knees,Then turned into a spectacular beauty. She read the book to the others,The other witches turned into,
her long lost brothers. "My story was good you see,Ended the curse of those evil bees,Who turned you all into witches,After you came back from the sea.Now go buy a copy please".

 

What I've learned since I dropped everything to write..

 I've been a full time writer now of novels, scripts, short stories and even flash fiction for three years. Scripts for one year because this journey started with novels. 

It's a giant game of waiting for the break through because you need marketing money to promote indie novels. If you can't stand rejection and it breaks you into a million pieces get ready to take some Xanax or buy some therapy because this is a rocky ride of ups and downs and almost there moments.  This is wishing upon a star territory. If you think this is an easy road it's not, for anyone. Did you hear that? It's not, for anyone. 

What else have I learned? Forget critics to a degree. Some are evil bastards that hate everyone but some are real and want to help. First figure out if you can which one is giving you that feedback. I don't seek feedback or competition wins anymore I write scripts and novels and pitch them. 

Right now I am waiting on several decisions from big agents, movie producers and book agents that any sale would be that moment you aren't sure what you would do with. Screaming is likely part of it or wild laughter. Then it would be back to earth knowing that is only one step in many that has to happen to get onto a screen or bookshelves everywhere. 

I have thought about quitting but I write anyway and it never stops so there is no quitting. If you can quit you are better off then me, I think. I might change my mind about that if I make it. We shall see. 

 

One Wish granted....

 I am over the moon excited that I've finally climbed a big writer hill that I found out about yesterday.Make a wish then work on your dream because the only way it 100% for sure can't happen is if you do nothing at all to make it happen. On the other hand even when it's a million to one shot it can still happen if you try.