Tag: Writing
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IWSG October 2025
October 1 question – What is the most favorite thing you have written, published or not? And why? It’s October already? Guh. Wasn’t I still trying to process the summer to-do list stress last week? The to-do list that never made it to the got-done list? Like get my body into spooky-season shape? I’m pretty…
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September 2025 Progress Report
I’m not the swiftest. It can take me a while to really understand something. Maybe even longer to be able to put it in words. This particular post is about small business generally, and some may even classify it as a rant. Either way, it is a valuable lesson I’ve recently been able to put…
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IWSG September 2025
Now that I’ve published the first book, and I’m working on formatting the second, I’m struggling with a few things, mentally and emotionally. One of the bigger “things” I deal with, is the feeling of being a burden. That’s part of why it took me so long to start self-publishing in the first place: How…
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August 2025 Progress Report
We are formatting the ms for the first fantasy novel. It’s a little easier the second time around, but the PDF formatting is still a booger. I’ve learned from the formatting of the romance novel, to go through it for formatting marks and set it up for epub submission, then do the PDF formatting, because…
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July Progress Report
We are now working on the art for the fantasy series. Maps, cover art bits, things like that. I’ve started editing the manuscript for the first in the fantasy series for epub and pdf. But what have we learned now that we are a PUBLISHED AUTHOR (buymybookASpecialBlwndofCrazybuymybook)? We’ve learned that when you hold a physical…
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IWSG July 2025
Getting an LCCN is a bit confusing. You need it to make it easier for libraries in the US to find you, but it is not a requirement. If you get an LCCN, You have to submit a hardcopy book to the Library of Congress. Which I have to do anyway for the copyright. I’m…