William Amerman's Blog - Posts Tagged "crack-monkey-button"
Back to work
Why am I munching cereal with earplugs (try it sometime and tell me if it isn't an interesting experience), sitting in front of my laptop?
It's because I've found that the damn "Update Report" button is MUCH more attractive (think cocaine or chocolate cake) than the 101 keyboard keys waiting to be pressed in combinations that will spit out new fiction.
While the boys play in the other room as loud and noisy as they normally are, I'm buckling down. Gearing up for the final push to complete Sky4 - [name TBD]. After gaining over a thousand new readers in 24 hours, the urgency and pressure to finish the 4th book is like nothing I've ever known. I picture this huge new crowd racing through the first book. Then on to the second. Then hopefully on to the third and if I imagine that takes a few weeks, I'd like to be able to provide them the fourth book to fall into immediately after the third.
The fourth book resumes where the first one left off and begins to get to the part of this story where we find out why the World was created, who created it and what lies in store for the World and its people in the near future. It's over-sized right now--about 130k words that will be about 145k when finished, but then hopefully pared back to 130k after 1st and 2nd edits. Which is almost enough for two books, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Off to it and thank you to everyone who helped propel Sky1 - Foundation to the best-seller charts on Amazon (#1 in Post Apocalyptic Fiction), on the front page best-seller list at Barnes and Noble (right next to Star Wars and The Martian....what a feeling that is!).
It's because I've found that the damn "Update Report" button is MUCH more attractive (think cocaine or chocolate cake) than the 101 keyboard keys waiting to be pressed in combinations that will spit out new fiction.
While the boys play in the other room as loud and noisy as they normally are, I'm buckling down. Gearing up for the final push to complete Sky4 - [name TBD]. After gaining over a thousand new readers in 24 hours, the urgency and pressure to finish the 4th book is like nothing I've ever known. I picture this huge new crowd racing through the first book. Then on to the second. Then hopefully on to the third and if I imagine that takes a few weeks, I'd like to be able to provide them the fourth book to fall into immediately after the third.
The fourth book resumes where the first one left off and begins to get to the part of this story where we find out why the World was created, who created it and what lies in store for the World and its people in the near future. It's over-sized right now--about 130k words that will be about 145k when finished, but then hopefully pared back to 130k after 1st and 2nd edits. Which is almost enough for two books, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. Off to it and thank you to everyone who helped propel Sky1 - Foundation to the best-seller charts on Amazon (#1 in Post Apocalyptic Fiction), on the front page best-seller list at Barnes and Noble (right next to Star Wars and The Martian....what a feeling that is!).
