Writing update for April
Used to do more of these but he is this one.
Okay, writing update time.
Looks like I will have to spend the money to get my two novels beta read and/or proofread. (Shakes head) be nice if my books sold some so I would have some money coming in for writing and books.
The second book is Lance Starhammer. It takes place in the far future after there are hundreds of colony planets. I mean colony planets have colony planets. He is a Jack of all Trades. Which means he does almost anything to make money. Lance has commanded a huge starship hauling gigantic creatures around. He has been a fight pilot for a certain dictator. He will run blockades or pull a con or chase down someone who wants to kill him.
So my next project-not counting continuing to write short stories and novels and sending them to markets-will be a collection of Western stories. It will be titled "The Marshal" and will be five stories about a certain marshal. I need to write one of them and revise a bit one other. I think I will try the cover myself. I just need a simple western style picture, the title and my name. So we shall see how it comes out.
I took a short story writing and selling online workshop. For one week's homework we had to write a story about solitude. In any way any genre. I did a SF tale for that. Later I also wrote a fantasy and a general fiction and now I think I will do a steampunk and/or Urban Fantasy.
I have done more general fiction stories lately and know only a couple of markets for that-hmm, maybe up to five-I may do a collection of them after "The Marshal" If I do that collection will be titled "Foibles"
I am working on of novels but they are whenever I get to them. One, a steampunk dystopian tale, I am still not completely satisfied with the first few pages. I redid them once, but-something is there or isn't. I may try it again. But I would like to do the whole thing now so I may concentrate on it next.
One thing I learned in the workshop was the vindication. That is the very end of the short story, novels have them to. It is when you tell the reader the story is over. It could be one sentence or a couple of short paragraphs. If you don't the reader will feel unfinished even if the adventure is over, or crime solved etc. And the vindication sells yours next story or novel.
Okay, writing update time.
Looks like I will have to spend the money to get my two novels beta read and/or proofread. (Shakes head) be nice if my books sold some so I would have some money coming in for writing and books.
The second book is Lance Starhammer. It takes place in the far future after there are hundreds of colony planets. I mean colony planets have colony planets. He is a Jack of all Trades. Which means he does almost anything to make money. Lance has commanded a huge starship hauling gigantic creatures around. He has been a fight pilot for a certain dictator. He will run blockades or pull a con or chase down someone who wants to kill him.
So my next project-not counting continuing to write short stories and novels and sending them to markets-will be a collection of Western stories. It will be titled "The Marshal" and will be five stories about a certain marshal. I need to write one of them and revise a bit one other. I think I will try the cover myself. I just need a simple western style picture, the title and my name. So we shall see how it comes out.
I took a short story writing and selling online workshop. For one week's homework we had to write a story about solitude. In any way any genre. I did a SF tale for that. Later I also wrote a fantasy and a general fiction and now I think I will do a steampunk and/or Urban Fantasy.
I have done more general fiction stories lately and know only a couple of markets for that-hmm, maybe up to five-I may do a collection of them after "The Marshal" If I do that collection will be titled "Foibles"
I am working on of novels but they are whenever I get to them. One, a steampunk dystopian tale, I am still not completely satisfied with the first few pages. I redid them once, but-something is there or isn't. I may try it again. But I would like to do the whole thing now so I may concentrate on it next.
One thing I learned in the workshop was the vindication. That is the very end of the short story, novels have them to. It is when you tell the reader the story is over. It could be one sentence or a couple of short paragraphs. If you don't the reader will feel unfinished even if the adventure is over, or crime solved etc. And the vindication sells yours next story or novel.
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Thank you. I don't use Word but my WP may have that feature. A lot of the time I would add a vindication because its the type of thing pro writers do. Even though sometimes I found it hard to come up with. Just a couple of small paragraphs and nothing. But I didn't realize it could be that important or that it had a name.
Did having a name change the way you saw it?
My partner in crime figured out a trick. Shh! It was pretty clever. Smart guy. I'll share because I like it when writers are nice to each other. :) We're using Word's text-to-voice feature right now, to kind of try to make sure that the flow is right, that there aren't any extraneous words, sentence structure works, etc. Sometimes, no matter how many times things are read on the page (by ourselves, each other, beta readers, etc), you can catch mistakes when you hear words aloud.
I've even found that hearing my words read back in another voice is different than reading them aloud to myself.
I'm not sure if you know about that functionality- it was new to me. It isn't fantastic. It can be a little halting. Not meant for storytelling. But it can definitely help catch problem areas.
I wish you luck with your vindication! It's tough when the first few pages won't flow. Keep pluggin'!
Thanks for the introduction.