My novel is back up to 50,000 words today. And, praise be, it’s fifty-thousand GOOD words. Sent new stuff off to the Beta readers. Was really, REALLY happy with the way the scenes turned out today. I also realized I might be able to use some of the scenes I wrote a couple months ago in the coming week for some of the action sequences to come. We’ll see. I might just rewrite them all.
The book is coming along. FINALLY.
I felt like a writer today. For the past couple days actually. I don’t know if it’s another “switch” that’s been flipped…but I’m not putting off my writing like I used to. I look forward to the writing sessions. The story is coming together, finally, and I now I can see the end. I’m not even close to it…but I can SEE it. I feel like I can see the work I need to put in to get me there, and somehow, that has always motivated me to sit down and get it done, and even enjoy it. It’s when I’m heading into the dark that I freeze up and have trouble putting in the time and effort.
All that I just talked about makes me think I *have* found another switch to flip. There will be ups and downs, surely, to come. They always do. But I felt like a writer today. I felt like it was my job.
I looked today at my sales for this first book, and what I see is that if I’d been able to release when I wanted to, within three months at least of the first book, I would have seen my income climb instead of fall. It had the right-shaped curve. Amazon liked the book. With the next one out, and then the next one, I’d have had some decent success…and I still will, don’t get me wrong. I didn’t see it today as a failure, but rather a success – it makes me want to push forward, because it showed me that yes…the best marketing one can do as an author is to publish the next book.
I also got an episode of Two Guys One Trek edited today. It was a particularly bad episode of Star Trek, and a particularly good episode of the podcast. I’m two weeks away from finishing these last edits, and then it’s just a matter of listening to them and making sure I didn’t screw anything up…then exporting everything with the cover art, writing all the little blurbs, putting together the teaser…and then it goes LIVE. It’s quite a process, y’all. Quite. The. Process. But, I shall chip away at it every day, and I’ll get there.
So, yea. It’s time for the sleeps. This week was crazy, but awesome, and now Coco is snoring.
Night night!