ROW80: Biting Off More Than I Can Chew
This has been a thought going through my head the last few days. Ever since my post on Autism on Monday. Granted I haven't had much time to do too intensive research, but it seems at first glance that writing a series of fiction books aimed just at autistic children will not be difficult but rather monumentous. I have check online – briefly – but not been able to find anything about other books out there that are written this way. There are plenty which have autistic characters but that is not really what I am going for.
Still, this is a subject close to my heart and not something I will drop at the first hurdle. Not at any hurdle. It is time I started making some phone calls to gather information the old-fashioned way.
Anyway, back onto my original ROW80 Goals, as the above project is something much grander in scale than can currently be confined to a single round.
Highway to Hell is still with the editor, and he has started back at work after his week off so I hope to receive it back sometime within the next week. (YAY) and we had a family BBQ – on my wife's side – on Sunday and so I get chatting with my brother-in-law who is the designer of my fabulous book cover. We discussed a few changes that I would like to consider and he said he can see to it no problem. (another YAY) Everything is coming together even if I see no real movement at the moment. The cogs behind the behind the scenes are turning nicely.
In terms of my new WIP, Highway To Hell : Trials and Tribulations stands now at Circa 14,000 words and is moving along nicely. I have averaged around 750 words a day this week and if I can keep this up the whole way then I will be delighted. I have the first scenes all planned out and have thought of a couple of nice extra bits for later in this novel and in part three that will king of bring things back on and inter-connect in a way I had not thought of before. I also have some paid writing work – freelance SEO based stuff – that I need to do, because I have to save up for my writing costs – editor, cover art etc – in some way. But that doesn't eat into my time too much.
I have kind of made my mind up to publish Highway to Hell via Createspace and Smashwords, and then investigate other potential avenues for the subsequent books, and think I have settled on a price structure also. Thanks in large part to posts on several websites including those of LM Stull and Dmytry Karpov
