It’s definitely more efficient to have distributors getting books into stores, to have people ordering from their local indie bookstores, from Amazon, etc. The bulk of my book sales should come from there, hopefully! But there is something very satisfying about getting up in the morning, signing a book, sticking in a postcard or two, […]
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One thing that I’ve been struggling with is how much sheer time editing video and audio takes. I pay Darius, who does the first pass on editing, then for the cooking videos, both Stephanie and I review the edited version, and there usually are little clean-up things to add, so I don’t want to skip that
Woke up at 5, a little slow getting out of bed, but coffee and breakfasted by 6, out to writing shed by 6:15. Gods, I love the mornings out here. So beautiful, so peaceful. There was a little break from novel-revision when I had to pause and work on my revised outline for the next
I was going to have a clurichaun in my next Wild Cards story, a mythological character who’s historically been portrayed as a terribly dressed little man, merrily drinking, lecherous. Sort of a grown-up leprechaun. In a lot of ways, this figure seems similar to the Pan figure of Greek mythology. But I’m now having squiggly
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I am a little obsessed with having a crackling candle going while writing these days; it seems to help with the ADD focus thing (along with meds and Vyvanse), but crackling candles tend to be expensive, and so of course my impulse is to just make my own…hm. I’ve done candle-making once before, but it’s
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Hm. So, I realized in revising chapter 20, that we really don’t know one of the major characters well enough. I need at least one more scene with him, maybe halfway through the book, so the reader has a chance to get to know him and care about the decision he makes at the end.
I haven’t taken a whole day off in I don’t know how long, but this novel revision will be finished this week, I think, so one is coming. But I did work pretty intensely from 6-3 yesterday (revising, then recording podcast, then SLF meetings, of which more anon), so at 3, feeling completely brain-spent, I
That thing where you’re having so much fun talking to Benjamin Rosenbaum on your podcast that it goes into the 3rd hour of recording, well past lunch, and you ignore your hunger pangs in favor of conversation, which is fine until you finally finish and stand up and then almost faint because you’re so light-headed… …time to
Whew — that went fast. These chapters are very short, as we race towards the climax, and they were also drafted in the most recent pass, so they’re in pretty good shape. But still, revising three chapters in 45 minutes may be a record for me. There’s a lot happening quickly in these later chapters,
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Woke up at 6, quesadilla and coffee and meds, out in the shed by 6:30, chapter revised by 7:30. Now THAT is a good start to the day. Everything else is gravy. I’m tempted to just keep going and try to get through another chapter. I’m recording a podcast episode with Ben @ 10, and
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