Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread. Showing 1,901-1,950 of 4,252

[Will]

Brilliant !

[Joseph]

Does the title of your next* flash/short story collection count towards wordcount? Because if it does I have written at least two words today.

*assuming you actually finish it

[Kath]

M.T. wrote: "Woot! McOther got home in time to do football with McMini. Wrote 1,137 words while they were out and the total count has hit 60k: 60,656"

Blimmin marvellous!

[M.T.]

Joseph wrote: "Does the title of your next* flash/short story collection count towards wordcount? Because if it does I have written at least two words today.

*assuming you actually finish it"

It's two words that weren't there yesterday so yes. :-)

[Kath]

Another 467. Story now stands at 6700.

[Alicia]

Way to go. I haven't had a brain in days (this moving and travelling thing consumes brains), and I'm getting very itchy about it.

Put up more free to the public Patreon posts - I really do have an awful lot of background material, and found myself interested in my own process - so threw it up for anyone else who might be - they say to put up lots of posts.

Even with introductions and conclusions, I don't consider those posts 'writing,' because they're not fiction, but several thousand new words have gone into them.

[Will]

I put down about 1200 yesterday to bulk up the Welsh Legends book a little.

Just need to sort out the second CD this week, then I'll launch the whole lot into, well silence, probably. Just as well the process is fun, isn't it?

[Alicia]

Supposedly audio versions are doing very well.

Best wishes - and yes, it must have been fun. And you're well ahead of most of us.

[Will]

I've now prepared the short book of Welsh Legends for Amazon release at the end of next week. In a day or so, ACX should allow me to set up an audiobook. I'll have a go, and report on my experience.

[Kath]

352 yesterday and I was on a roll today with another 1077. Progress.

[Will]

Just an interesting thing. To order 10 of these books from Createspace, with author discount and shipping, will cost me around $ 55.

Running the books on Amazon at the lowest possible price, I'm getting them for under £ 30 and 3 weeks earlier.

[Alicia]

Kath wrote: "352 yesterday and I was on a roll today with another 1077. Progress."

Very definitely progress. Must feel good.

We're packing - and my small attempts at writing keep getting trounced.

[M.T.]

Glad everyone's stuff is going well, Alicia and I are clearly in the same boat today. Onwards and upwards!

[Alicia]

I can write by myself - but I can't pack by myself - so the weekend is MINE!

After a while, keeping the decorators from deciding to paint polished, finished wood white for some unnamed house buyers takes the energy out of me. The answer is no. It's criminal. I remember crying when trying to reverse the effect of that decision back in my college days - philistines!

[Kath]

179 words only, but in fairness, I've been out to my friends for lunch, had my hair cut and beta-read two chapters for someone else.

[Will]

This weekend it's Llandeilo Literary festival, so I'm performing and selling, not writing

[Jim]

Stopped writing and went back to put some plot into it! I was enjoying writing so much I'd forgotten to put in the depth and complexity ;-)

[M.T.]

Parish magazine and the death an uncle to deal with so probably won't write anything for the next two weeks. Ho hum.

[Kath]

Life gets in the way, doesn't it?
1024 today - it's picking up momentum - just when I only have a couple of sections to go!

[M.T.]

Managed this week and next week's blog posts. Woot.

Cheers

MTM

[Alicia]

Set up the next 6 scenes in my Patreon - these will be paid ($1 is the lowest Patreon will let me set); and no one has seen them but my beta reader.

Not many patrons yet, but they don't tell you if you've had anyone drop by to view or actually read.

Two a month until I get settled in California (if we EVER get there). This takes me into June.

[Kath]

893 words today. Short story now stands ar 10,224.

[Pam]

Still slogging away on the edit. Ho hum .......

[Alicia]

A couple more posts for the Patreon in the chute; they are fairly long and need editing after I extract the pieces from the Production files I keep while writing.

Also a blog post, and another scheduled (we're going on vacation).

Sold a number of ebooks at full price whose royalties will go to Dr. Tuller's ME/CFS investigative journalism fundraiser! Feels good to do that from the writing; my personal contribution already went in.

So writing, yes; fiction, no - communicated with new Indian friend over details of naming a Maharajah's estate, research for fiction, if not fiction.

Better than nothing, but the packing ladies for our household stuff - to be removed as much as possible before carpet installation (ours is 37 years old) - come tomorrow, and I have to be ready to tell them what to pack where for every single item in several rooms. We will still be living here while the house is on the market, plus looking for a forever home in California, so it's crucial I be able to find my sandals and bathing suits for vacation with the kids, and they can't be in one of 17 boxes labelled, "Misc." Can't wait until this part is over.

[Kath]

Good luck, Alicia!

860 today and the short story now stands at 11,084. Still another scene to go. At least!

[M.T.]

Seconded with the good luck wishes Alicia. I have mostly finished the Parish magazine today which is chuffing marvellous as it means I can write tomorrow!

Also scheduled a blog post for next week but it has to go the week after really so I need to write another one, booo!

Cheers

MTM

[Alicia]

Kath wrote: "Good luck, Alicia!

860 today and the short story now stands at 11,084. Still another scene to go. At least!"

Thanks, Kath. Survived the first four hours - they packed an amazing amount of things - like voice-activated robots. Tomorrow, they return with more boxes.

I'd rather have your word count, but this has to be done.

[Will]

This is curious.. the paperbacks I ordered from Amazon UK rather than from CS did indeed arrive within a couple of days of ordering: and they were printed in Poland.

[M.T.]

Maybe they're using Ingram Spark. Remember LuLu? All their books used to be printed by Ingram.

[Alicia]

Will wrote: "This is curious.. the paperbacks I ordered from Amazon UK rather than from CS did indeed arrive within a couple of days of ordering: and they were printed in Poland."

But do they list Createspace as the printer? Anywhere on the paperwork? Amazon usually uses its closest distributor; maybe Createspace is printing now in Poland.

[M.T.]

Alicia wrote: "Will wrote: "This is curious.. the paperbacks I ordered from Amazon UK rather than from CS did indeed arrive within a couple of days of ordering: and they were printed in Poland."

But do they list..."

It may be different now but originally I'd heard that Createspace used Lightning Source in the UK and Europe, which is also Ingram. Not sure if that's true now though.

[Kath]

Another 900-odd and the story's done. Just a shade over 12k. Wonder what I'll do with it!

[Will]

Release it as a short?

[Kath]

Probably. Anthologies aren't all that popular.

[Will]

I do sell print copies of my collections of short stories at cons/book fairs. And I think shorts manage quite well on Amazon

[Will]

I've been trying to get a listing on Amazon for my Cd of storytelling.

Frankly, the Brexit negotiations seem less complex.

Ebay was straightforward, of course

[Jim]

best of luck :-)

[M.T.]

Seconded, best of luck Will.

I've managed about 1,500 words over the last couple of days but, of course, I've deleted about 3k!

[Will]

I've given up on Amazon. It's too complex.

[M.T.]

Thursday and Friday did 1,500 over all.
Will, I'm sorry to hear that, although if you're getting a following it may sell best at your gigs anyway!

Did a blog post today, a happier one. https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2018/05/05/ch...

[Will]

Second CD finished, organised packaged, and delivered to the company that produces the actual things.

Next up, the audiobook. I've now got ACX permissions to go ahead, since I have a physical book with the same title available on Amazon, which is the first requirement.

[M.T.]

Nice going Will.

Was too knackered to do fiction today. Was feeling a bit blue so decided I had to try and write something and managed 2,532 of the non fiction stuff. Then I was so pumped I had an idea for a short, have done an outline of the basics now, I need to whip it into shape so I can write it by numbers before I start but I might manage to do that tomorrow - I can hope.

Tomorrow, I also need to look at a proper plan for Space Dustmen if I can; detailed enough to write that by numbers. AND need to check I'm still on track with the K'Barthan w.i.p.

This doing more than one at a time is definitely working.

Cheers

MTM

[Pam]

That's good MT. Still struggling on with my edit, seems to take forever ....

[Alicia]

I wrote thousands of words yesterday.

None of them were fiction. :-(

[Will]

I'm now going to have to sit and think about a proper marketing strategy for my sci fi, with a release date determined in June. Rather be writing, but...

[M.T.]

Good luck with all that folks. This week is recovery and also fixing the stuff I bust last week, like my car and just insane amounts of admin; cat is having his innoculations, car shited, gym programme up for renew, eye test due, have to ring new owners of my building society to discuss what kind of account the one I have now is commuted into when take over day happens in June. Not much writing time on the horizon today, either! Might get a look in on Thursday.

Cheers

MTM

[Alicia]

What are you doing to the car???

[Will]

Alicia wrote: "What are you doing to the car???"

That should be: What have you done to the car (this time)?

[Kath]

A magnificent 26 words. Two whole Haiku poems, however.

[M.T.]

Nice going Kath. Two Haikus is two haikus. ;-)

The car has a lever by the driver's seat that you pull to open the boot. It's done with wires which snap, repeatedly. When the wires are snapped, you can't open the boot so you have to get a new one put on, which snaps after about six months. Serious design flaw. I will ask about having a lock and key the way I did on the old one.

Cheers

MTM