Round up the Posse Stop and think for a second. Is an author the best person to ask the “Question” how do you come up with ideas? Back in the bad old days, maybe two years ago, authors that made their living writing books came out with a book once or twice a year. That’s […]
Capture them. Ideas are elusive and fleeting. They will not wait around till you’re ready for them. They are here, then gone. They’re worst than Pokemon Go prizes. Ideas have legs and they run, fast. How do you capture ideas, you write them down. Make a list of ideas as they come to you. Become […]
Step 1. Open up. It’s not that simple. Time and time again, both as a writer and professional, I have seen ideas brushed away, tossed aside, ignored. Like “Casey at the bat” the ideas presented were just not right. These ideas were lovingly, honestly, presented after a lot of hard thinking. I do not know […]
I have worked with many authors, screenwriters and as an engineer with technical professionals in trying to find ideas. The biggest problem I found working with these people was that they would reject out of hand idea after idea. Ideas that I took and later wrote stories using them. (Never let a good idea get […]
I’ve read a book called 2,000 to 10,000 How to write fast, … . The title of the book refers to the number of words an author can write in an hour. I’m having trouble making 1,000 words an hour. Now 1,000 words an hour is 17 words a minute. Many typists can type 100 […]
As a writer I am an emotional being. Microsoft and its product Windows drives me from Frenzy to Gloom, from uncommunicative to hysteric. Forgive me, but to paraphrase Shakespeare, the first thing we do is hang all the programmers, after we classify the lawyers as programmers. August was not a waste, 11 states and over […]
The book is up. To upload my book I did not use a program like Scrivener or an editor program to convert the book file into Mobi format. I just loaded the .doc file into the Amazon Kindle converter and let it rip. Before loading the file into the converter I made the file as […]
To squeeze more time out of the week I installed a drip irrigation system to water the garden. It took three days of hard work in the sun. The water feed line and a conduit for the electrical control line were installed in the ground back in the spring. Lesson one. (It’s a big one) […]
The cover is one of those little thing you have to do as a self publish author. I watched several YouTube videos. I looked at several sites that offer cover designs services. Bookbaby.com listed their cover service at around $600.00. Standoutbook.com listed their cover service at around $495.00. Using these numbers as a guideline I […]
Yesterday I did something I haven’t done in a long time. I wrote “the end”. I wrote it at the end of a book. OK, it’s more of a long novella of 44,000 words. Is it the end? No I still have some clean up in the book to to do. I will have to […]