Amy’s Comments (group member since Jan 15, 2017)

Amy’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

That is another damn fine idea. You keep having the ideas and I'll just copy you lol

I do the same Anna. Oh, mine are terrible: Actually, although, basically, gradually, obviously, quickly, really, reluctantly, slowly, that, then, usually, which. It's an ever growing list I keep in Notes on my phone entitled "Cull." I don't take them all out, but I'll try to reduce the number considerably.

And on top of that I have been known to use "passed" where I should have used "past". As far as I'm aware I have never incorrectly used the word "past."

It goes on and on...

That is a damn fine idea. I should do the same. I quite like my Something for the weekend tweet which I've got going out 4 times a day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Of course I've only got one thing to tweet about. I need something else for the rest of the week.

Who else publishes paperbacks other than Ingram?

I've had a whole eleven sales outside of Amazon, two on iBooks and the rest Smashwords (when they did a free event-so yeah I was wondering just then why I hadn't been paid anything-free). I'm happy I have the ebook on other platforms as well.

I'd like to look at putting the paperback somewhere else, but I can't afford to pay an awful lot for the privilege.

Is Ingram the one to go for? I went straight for KDP and Smashwords for the other eBook retailers. I haven't looked at a second platform for the paperback or bought my own ISBN. I can do that when I've got some money.

Theodore wrote: "Frankly, I can't see reading an illustrated children's storybook to a class of 1st graders from an iPad or a whiteboard. That's about as ridiculous as it gets."

No that would be daft or an enormous iPad, which is not the point of the iPad, so therefore daft.

So do you think they'll ditch Createspace now they own that?

Buffer looks easy enough, but now I can't think of anything to Tweet :D

I don't know how long Createspace has left, but I can't see Amazon running that and their paperback Beta.

Aww Karen, take care. The Blog Go Round has been suspended anyway.

Me neither. Off to look at Buffer. (Everything I type today comes out wrong, instead of ff I had gg. Completely different word!)

I'm just reading through this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/t...

Yes I think you're right RL.

It's a brain issue, isn't it. The brain doesn't actually read every single word on the page/screen. There's that whole thing that of "only a few people can read this" (I don't believe that) and it'll be upside down back to front and the first and last letters in the right place, but everything else jumbled up. I can read those easily. Therefore, when I'm editing, even though I read slowly and out loud, and many times, I STILL miss things. Grammarly will help even if it wants me to share a head rather than shave it. Smashwords prefers older versions of Word to Scrivener. Smashwords formatting is a daunting process at the best of times, so I'd like to keep that on my side!

LOL! Got it.

Well I think we're all agreed it's genre specific! Almost typed gender specific then. Not sure that has anything to do with it...

I've just looked again. And I still don't understand it, but it has apparently automatically tweeted to people who engaged with me this week. So I deleted that. I tried to schedule a tweet and it wants money for that. It's $20 a month. With a discount going on at the moment of 60% or 70% for life on annual membership.

My biggest and first published is 88k my second to be published a mere 40k+, my first ever written 70k, it's erotica and I was led to believe at some point that 70k was considered a novel length. #LikesNumbers

I signed up for commun.it a while back. But I've never used it. Not sure what it does, but it exists.

I will have to look into ProWritingAid Anna. Anything free has to be looked at.

Ben, my version of Word is rubbish. It's an old 2010 copy. The later ones are apparently only geared up for US English even if you choose UK English, yet my old copy misses spellings more than I do.

I'm now actually wondering if I should try Scrivener. I have a free trial, but I am only producing words and it does seem overly complicated for something that back in the day would be as viable handwritten or produced on a typewriter.

It's only as good as the person operating it. Luckily, I know enough to agree or disagree with something when it's highlighted. If I'd blindly accepted everything it had the audacity to flag as a critical error, not much would have made sense. "Critical error" please show me the person that will die because I missed a comma. Pompous piece of software.