Today I mostly wrote ... the word count thread. Showing 2,951-3,000 of 4,252

[M.T.]

Good going. Did lots of the stuff I’m supposed to be doing today so hopefully I’ll get to do some writing, or at least, some book related stuff, tomorrow.

Cheers

MTM

[Jim]

I keep telling myself I ought to get a blog post ready for Halloween

[M.T.]

That’s impressively organised of you Jim. I’m slightly more playing random catch up with my blog at the moment, although Life has handed me a lot of stuff on a plate so I’ve not done half the things I meant to.

[Jim]

Just because I intend to do it doesn't mean it'll happen :-(

[M.T.]

Jim wrote: "Just because I intend to do it doesn't mean it'll happen :-("

I hear you. Here's hoping anyway. :-)

[M.T.]

I have written about 10k this week. That’s what a holiday does. 🙂

[Pam]

That's good MT. I managed to get my paperback finalised, but life has got in the way a bit so I haven't got back to the other book yet.

[M.T.]

Real Life can be a pain in the arse sometimes, can’t it!?

[Darren]

Got my short story collection out this week. Now to get back 5o the WIP, but have a house guest (don't ask and I won't swear), so probably nothing this side of next week.

[M.T.]

Darren wrote: "Got my short story collection out this week. Now to get back 5o the WIP, but have a house guest (don't ask and I won't swear), so probably nothing this side of next week."

Nice work. Loads of us have new releases around now. 🙂

[Darren]

M.T. wrote: "Nice work. Loads of us have new releases around now"

We've all been busy beavers. It's good to see.

[Jim]

Managed a Tallis story for halloween

[M.T.]

Jim wrote: "Managed a Tallis story for halloween"

Good going!

Darren wrote: "M.T. wrote: "Nice work. Loads of us have new releases around now"

We've all been busy beavers. It's good to see."

It is too, things are slowing up a bit now as I have to do an eyebombing calendar to try and flog this year.

On the upside, I have tidied up all four books in the upcoming series and have written the first third of another short.

It’s all go!

Cheers

MTM

[Jim]

let us know when the avalanche hits the market :-)

And a throw away line of yours on facebook led to a whole new train of thought, so I've got a blog post out of it

[M.T.]

Jim wrote: "let us know when the avalanche hits the market :-)

And a throw away line of yours on facebook led to a whole new train of thought, so I've got a blog post out of it"

Mwahahahaaaaargh! Always happy to help. I'd better do a blog post for tomorrow at some point but the lovely actor who is doing my books on audio has just delivered book one. 😲😲😲😲😲💜 Squeee! But at the same time gaaaargh because it'll probably be Monday before I can listen.

[Jim]

always frustrating

[M.T.]

Jim wrote: "always frustrating"

Yeh. I managed a quick listen to the first two chapters before I went to bed last night. First impressions are excellent. :-)

Right, that blog post isn’t going to write itself.

Cheers

MTM

[Darren]

M.T. wrote: "It is too, things are slowing up a bit now as I have to do an eyebombing calendar to try and flog this year.

On the upside, I have tidied up all four books in the upcoming series and have written the first third of another short."

Holy book writing, Batman! That's impressive.

[M.T.]

Darren wrote: "M.T. wrote: "It is too, things are slowing up a bit now as I have to do an eyebombing calendar to try and flog this year.

On the upside, I have tidied up all four books in the upcoming series and..."

Mwahahahaaaaargh! Bless you, thanks. It's not as impressive as it sounds, they're all 20k shorts.

Cheers

MTM

[M.T.]

Another very long phone call doing silly voices and calling it ‘work’. Really enjoying the audiobook project.

[Alicia]

That's what a kindred soul will do for ya!

[M.T.]

Very true! :-)

[Jim]

Haven't really written anything since Sunday, I've just been charging all over the place.
Thought I might get something done over the weekend and discovered I'm busy on Saturday and not only that I've got a blog tour starting for the next Tallis books and that always seems to involve quite a lot of just keeping up with comments etc and 'chatting' to people
It's funny, if things go well, you do almost as much chatting to people as you do at a real event, but it's more spread out :-)

[M.T.]

I can imagine, I have discovered that they can fit me in at the Christmas Fayre after all so suddenly I’m very busy too. I sympathise.

[Jim]

Well hopefully you'll have a good day, sell lots of books and McMini can have a whale of a time at the fair :-)

[M.T.]

Fingers crossed. Just doing the final edits to the next short before I dump it in word and send it off to the editor. Woot!

Cheers

MTM

[Jim]

go for it :-)

[Alicia]

Yay, MT!

[M.T.]

Thanks. Didn't get it finished today but it's closer than before.

[✿Claire✿]

I’ve been using NaNoWriMo to finish the first draft of something I’ve been working on for years. Mum gave it a read a little while back and told me to just focus on one idea. I’ve just written ‘The End’ on my first draft :D I’ll do nowhere near 50,000 words this month, and the entire thing is about 27,500 so it’ll need some work but the main story’s down :)

[M.T.]

Yaaaaaay! Well done Claire. Fist bump!

[Jim]

✿Claire✿ wrote: "I’ve been using NaNoWriMo to finish the first draft of something I’ve been working on for years. Mum gave it a read a little while back and told me to just focus on one idea. I’ve just written ‘The..."

great stuff Claire :-)

[Kath]

Excellent work, Claire!

[Darren]

Belated congratulations Claire and welcome to the community.

We all float down here.

[✿Claire✿]

Thank you :)

[M.T.]

I nearly ended up writing on the motorway today such was the gargantuan amount of time I spent stationary ... not quite long enough though, got out the ipad and it started moving again, second time, getting out and climbing the bank to have a wee did it! Probably won't get much more done this week as I'll have to do the blog post tomorrow and then it's Christmas Fayre until Sunday.

[Pam]

Adventures of M.T.!!

Well done Claire. I am still doing NaNo to try to redo a book which I thought only needed a polish as it was completed and edited years ago when I was still trying mainstream publishers. However, got feedback from a crit group which took it off in a different direction so have been rewriting loads of it. Nearly up to the 30,000 word mark so far.

[Pam]

BTW, didn't want to start a new thread here - has anyone had a message on GR from someone in India offering to do reviews if you send them your book. Have only been on GR since this month and have a few books rated. I could see from their profile that they had approached another GR member, who had sent back a response along the lines of they would contact this person if they felt the need. Oddly the person approached is Italian and their whole page is in that so bit strange that someone from India was offering to read their stuff I thought. Their name is Eva'S (capital S after the apostrophe). Presumably some kind of scam? I'm still trying to get any reviews so maybe this is why I was targeted.

[Jim]

Thanks for the warning Pam, I've not seen anything like that but we can all keep our eyes open

[M.T.]

Sounds fishy Pam, thanks for the heads up.

Amazingly, I did a little editing at the Christmas Fayre today in a quiet moment. It's all coming along.

Cheers

MTM

[M.T.]

Today, I wrote a massive blog post! https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/11/30/th...

[Jim]

and a good one :-)

[M.T.]

Thanks! I am to please. Those ideas are rather amorphous so it's hard to get them in order. 🤣🤣🤣

[Jim]

But it then becomes authentically you rather than a formal essay :-)

[M.T.]

Jim wrote: "But it then becomes authentically you rather than a formal essay :-)"

You mean, the usual MTM word barf!? Mwahahahahahrgh!

[Jim]

That's the one :-)

[Pam]

Well managed NaNoWriMo, editing the next book and totally rewriting large chunks, then sent some of that round my crit group some days ago so hoping they think it is better this time ;-)

[M.T.]

Yay! Go Pam! Well done. Hope the crit group like it. :-)

[M.T.]

This week, as well as doing a lot of editing and making sound files of the pronunciations of all the names in my books for Gareth, who's doing the audio books, I did a lot of editing, wrote some auto responders and a blog post.

https://mtmcguire.co.uk/2019/12/14/yi...

[Pat ()]

Ah, Mary, you are a joy and no mistake! xx