W.L. Wright's Blog, page 5

The Brutal Truth

As much as I want my author life to be ad hoc and unrelated to my own efforts to getting my books to readers but I have been hung up helping dear family. But I wouldn't change a thing because it is joyful to help and it is important and valiant. If you have a chance to do good go do it. It will take a sacrifice of some kind, but what you get back from it is beyond your dreams. But soon I will have more time to get to my next book that I have already started.

The Struggle is Real

It's Friday and it's been a while since I sat down and started writing my next novel. Not because I don't want to, not because I don't have the inspiration, but because moving across the country and driving over 2000 miles leaves you too tired to write and I'm still in recovery.

I have a great idea for my next and science fiction is the definite path since the idea involving genetics is in that genre. I hope to get started soon on it and maybe just doing this post will get me there. I hope so since writing is my life and I remain forever Indie.

Thanks to all those who have been reading my novels and if you could leave a review of the story you read you would help me in the struggle that is very real for every writer.  Writers from big publishing houses have the advantage of big time presses ready and willing to review whatever book they are given. Indie authors rely on the public's graciousness in providing a review. So don't forget to leave a review for Indie authors including me. :)

I'm not naming names

As I dig deeper into the online world experience being an indie author I realized the truly bizarre is going on. But I'm not naming names because if I do apparently those companies are going to swoop in, read it, judge it and decide my fate. If they don't like what I've posted even if it's the mildest of rants, there will be a negative affect. I will be punished.

When I first heard this I didn't believe that any company had people behind a desk somewhere looking at everything online that mentions their name. Weren't they just busy doing whatever that business does that got them to success? Their product got them there, not anything else.

In every relationship including business relationships there are the ups and down  Nothing doesn't have that experience in some way or another when it's a relationship extended over time. But if we don't get to vent, we don't get to complain, we don't get to speak out, without being punished by these companies that is just bizarre.

But it's true and so incredibly true that I even went as far as communicating with one company through an unconnected forum. They responded by reacting to my posts by making a change within their own platform that I referred to in my post. I thanked them for the fix in the forum and it's been smooth sailing ever since. However, recently and last week, I commented on something unfair that a company is doing and it's not even debatable.

Okay I am in the game, so I must comply because my novels deserve their best shot into the universe of readers. So I'm not naming names here,  I'm just venting about the bizarre reality in the online indie world that I live in.

The Iolon Star A Science Ficton Novel Book Trailer

An Authors Heartbeat

This is my author's heartbeat chart for the past three months. It still beats.

The Organic Writing Path Where Numbers Mean Something Different

Today I had a brief conversation with a writer friend and told him about my results on Iolon Star during its free download period. He tipped his head and I knew what it meant, he was thinking "that's not viral!".

He has been writing, and he is a good writer but hasn't published anything yet and we don't exist within the same generations. So I let him know, based on what I do, an organic free book campaign on my new release that consists of purely social media platforms and forums and only a heartbeat of notice, not 15 week planning with a giant budget, my results are above the average.

I am happy with that and he was confused by my happiness.

When you go organically where big money doesn't exist the little guy story begins. But that little guy story is different than most of us want to accept but I accept the challenge because I must.

I have seen plenty of come and goes, bloggers, writers and the challenge is extreme but the choice for me isn't a choice. I write because I have always have and heck I am on a writing hiatus/vacation and still writing and launching my latest novel.

Cheers Everyone! Thanks for your support! Read on! Write On! Forever Indie, W.L. Wright

The FREE period for Iolon Star is still going on today Friday April 12 until midnight so take a free getaway to a different galaxy.  IOLON STAR FREE DOWNLOAD

The Earthlings got another great review!

So I just found out today that a Redditor left a review on The Earthlings. Specifically they said "Cheers to a great book".

I am happy!

via GIPHY

An Indie Author 3 months later

Well everyone it's been a whole three months since I launched my new career as an indie author. I just released my fourth novel Iolon Star this week and currently on a needed novel writing hiatus. I am about to move across the country and I'd rather not start another novel until after I move and the ruckus is over.

Truism on being a fiction writer

Editing Madness

I finished my latest story, a science fiction novella. Sorry I haven’t visited here for a bit but I have been deep into that edit.
I wrote an adult science fiction and right now I am in the wonder what will happen phase of this writer experience, while I edit. Can a science fiction novella that has no humans, no one from earth involved, satisfy science fiction fans? I’m hoping so but my other science fiction novel is still rocking so I am confident sci fi fans will like this story too.
When I finish the edit on this one it will be my fourth published novel and I have so many short stories up now that even when I look at it I say, “hey I am a writer” as if I didn’t know that before? Madness is part of each of us and we all know it. I accept that, what do you do with it?
But that process of editing despite the madness of it, results in changes that enhances the story so more will understand not misunderstand. Some will always misunderstand it is an inevitable reality. But I, as all writers do, write with twisted fervor to achieve the impossible despite reality and that is a madness in and of itself.
I look up at the clock, it’s 4pm I don’t want to go back to editing, back to that intense focus on each and every sentence. I am going to tell myself I am done for the day. I did a chapter and that takes me almost a whole day so 4pm sounds like a good time to stop.
Looking forward to getting my edit done soon and being freed from this madness. If you want to join the launch team and get a free copy of the science fiction novella I am working on just message me. Write on everyone!