What did you blog about today?

Juliana said:
Dammit, Zebedee, now I have the Spice Girls stuck in my brain!

But seriously, nice piece. Reminds me of a talk by the very lovely Kate Messner where she said that we're never happy as writers. We finish a novel, and instead of celebrating we feel bad that we don't have an agent. We get an agent, but we then need a publishing deal. We get a deal, but then we want to make a best-seller's list. We make the list, but then we want to win an award. There's always a step further to go, and sometimes we forget to celebrate the successes because we're always worrying that if we don't make that next step we're a failure...
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Just seen this. There is so much truth in this. We forget to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
 
pambaddeley said:
Latest progress with using CampNaNoWriMo as motivator on my edit
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Good luck with it! With regards to kindle formatting you mentioned... I used to use MS Word, but I've since switched to Scrivener, and it makes conversion to various file formats much, much easier (I haven't actually released anything on kindle yet, but I've done some dry runs).

I'd highly recommend Catherine Ryan Howard's Self-Printed if you're new to the whole publishing on Amazon thing - it's the best book on the subject I've found.:)

And no, sadly I'm not paid for plugging either:(
 
Thanks! I bought her 2nd edition in paperback, then got the 3rd edition (latest) on Kindle, as I thought her blog looked useful.

I bought Scrivener a few years back but never got beyond part 3 of the tutorial and always forget it by the time I try to go back to it. :( However, I bought an online course recently to try to get to grips with it as I heard a lot of recommendations.
 
I've been trying to post interesting (to me) articles about Science & Technology as well as exposing Cloud hype (there is a valid use for Cloud) on Twitter and Facebook. I renamed my "Magh Meall" page to "Otherworld".

On my own blog I wrote about the paper version of "The Apprentice's Talent" being available direct on CreateSpace. Also how it's 3 to 5 working days for it to be available on Amazon or elsewhere. I ordered two final copies at cheapest shipping rate (1st June 2016 delivery!). It's $11 extra to get two copies inside 3 to 4 days (2 day express courier).
Ray McCarthy · “The Apprentice’s Talent” on paper
 
Now that I have my 100 posts, I'll link you all to my stuff. I have two blogs I'm working on right now:

Sinister <-- This is my main blog with general writing snippets, news, suchlike. My latest project (which hasn't generated much interest yet) is that I want to write your story. Give me a one-paragraph synopsis - beginning, middle, end, and two characters, and I'll write your story. Number of words and how long it'll take will vary with how much fun I have with it. Any genre, and you can specify tone (funny vs. serious) and other stuff if you want (like, "they all use laser swords that aren't lightsabers" etc.).

http://www.dispatchesfromchelandia.blogspot.com <-- I'm serializing a cross-genre science/fantasy novel here that takes place in a world in which magic and modern tech coexist. It's funny-ish, satirical, there's a murder in it, and eventually, you'll be able to guide the direction of the story. This serializing idea is inspired by Welcome to Night Vale and Scarfolk Council.

I'll post updates on this thread when I update things.
 
At 00:15 19th April 2016 I commented on my first launch day
Sales so far of the “The Apprentice’s Talent” are in Australia, Germany, UK and USA.
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Ray McCarthy · End of first day, first launch
I've got my blog syncing to Amazon.com author page (automatic) and Goodreads author page (manual).

Thanks again to all the wonderful folk here that helped me get this far.
 
Being really up to date and all, I reviewed Abendau's Heir.

I'll try and catch up and read the new one soon :p

There's also a review of The Adventures of Sir Edric not too far back in the archives.
 
Thanks, Peat. It'll be interesting to see what you make of the next one (which is a single novel-length story, with larger roles for Orff and Corkwell).
 
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