Tag: indie author
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IWSG March 2026
This month’s question is about book launches. Right now, I’m focusing more on getting books out there, first. Then I’ll start some marketing stuff when I’ve got a few titles out there. I’m a one-body shop, so it gets a little challenging to coordinate all the things. Right now, I’m finalizing my first fantasy book…
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Progress! February 2026
Formating is done for the first fantasy book! After four or five catastrophic failures that were mostly user error, it is done! Sort of. I’ve begun proofreading. A new form of irritation. I thought I’d caught all of my fabulously obvious mistakes in this last struggle to format. I was so tragically wrong. As of…
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IWSG February 2026
February 4 question – Many writers have written about the experience of rereading their work years later. Have you reread any of your early works? What was that experience like for you? Most of my experience has been “put the patient on the donor list, but we’re burning most of it.” Even now, as I…
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January 2026 Progress Report
Things are. . . . frustrating, right now. Part of it stems from my own lack of discipline to keep to a writing schedule. Part of that is I HAVE TO constantly use the “writing time” for things that absolutely cannot wait, like doctors appointments for the kids or job interviews or whatever. The majority…
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Progress Report November 2026
We have discovered that a large portion of the problems I’m having formatting my manuscripts is because my laptop is old, and Scribus is apparently a memory hog. Notice I said “a large portion of the problems.” The rest of the problems seem to be my ability to copy paste cut and format in a…
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IWSG November 2025
November 5 question – When you began writing, what did you imagine your life as a writer would be like? Were you right, or has this experience presented you with some surprises along the way? If we go back in time to elementary or even high school, I dreamt I would be the next Richard…
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