Last week's goals:
-Finish editing three stories
-Write two stories from my idea book
-Make two covers and get feedback from a few friends as to which is better
-Research other werewolf books and figure out how mine is different
Goals Completed:
-Research other werewolf books and figure out how mine is different
-Make a cover (I ended up making just one cover that I really liked. So I'm going with that one instead of taking the time to make more than I need.)
Goals Started:
-Finish editing three stories (I finished one)
-Write two stories from y idea book (I started one)
Overall, not a bad week. I touched on each goal as opposed to ignoring any one completely. I think that having these goals was really helpful and gave me a good idea of what I wanted to accomplish for the week. By keeping my goals simple and specific I didn't allow myself to get overwhelmed. There are many things I have to get done before publishing this book but keeping my goals realistic for each week lets me move steadily toward the finished product instead of madly dashing in the final stretch.
This Week's Goals:
-Finish editing two stories
-Finish writing the story from my idea book
-Choose an audience for my book
-Pick a day to be finished writing new content for my book
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Starting Point
Today is the day I begin this blog again.
Today I am writing not as an inconsistent teenager but as a future self-published author.
Let's start at the beginning. I've always wanted to be a published author. It's always been in the back of my mind but I knew that it would probably never happen. It's a lot of work to get published and I just didn't have the time or know-how to make that happen. I just accepted that it couldn't be.
Then I took Creative Writing in high school and started to learn about all the different ways to be published. I soon had my heart set on self-publishing an ebook. And the more I thought about what I could publish, the more I came back to my short werewolf stories that I had written over the years. I decided that my first self-published ebook would be a collection of short stories instead of a novel or novela.
For the past few months I've been editing, writing, rewriting, and compiling the list of short stories I will use in my first book. I have almost 20 stories written and ideas for almost ten more. Right now I have finished editing, with the help of my friend Charlotte, about a dozen stories. It's so exciting to have so much ready!
This week I found the picture I will use for the cover and I'm planning on finishing the cover sometime this coming week.
I'm writing this blog as a reminder to me to keep going on this. I want to set some goals for myself and I want to follow through. Even though this has been my dream my whole life, I'm almost afraid of it. I don't fear the criticism or even failure, I've been rejected before. I don't even know what I fear, honestly. Publishing, even self-publishing, is a daunting task. I want my manuscript to be perfect before it's sent out into the world.
This week's goals:
-Finish editing three stories
-Write two stories from my idea book
-Make two covers and get feedback from a few friends as to which is better
-Research other werewolf books and figure out how mine is different
Today I am writing not as an inconsistent teenager but as a future self-published author.
Let's start at the beginning. I've always wanted to be a published author. It's always been in the back of my mind but I knew that it would probably never happen. It's a lot of work to get published and I just didn't have the time or know-how to make that happen. I just accepted that it couldn't be.
Then I took Creative Writing in high school and started to learn about all the different ways to be published. I soon had my heart set on self-publishing an ebook. And the more I thought about what I could publish, the more I came back to my short werewolf stories that I had written over the years. I decided that my first self-published ebook would be a collection of short stories instead of a novel or novela.
For the past few months I've been editing, writing, rewriting, and compiling the list of short stories I will use in my first book. I have almost 20 stories written and ideas for almost ten more. Right now I have finished editing, with the help of my friend Charlotte, about a dozen stories. It's so exciting to have so much ready!
This week I found the picture I will use for the cover and I'm planning on finishing the cover sometime this coming week.
I'm writing this blog as a reminder to me to keep going on this. I want to set some goals for myself and I want to follow through. Even though this has been my dream my whole life, I'm almost afraid of it. I don't fear the criticism or even failure, I've been rejected before. I don't even know what I fear, honestly. Publishing, even self-publishing, is a daunting task. I want my manuscript to be perfect before it's sent out into the world.
This week's goals:
-Finish editing three stories
-Write two stories from my idea book
-Make two covers and get feedback from a few friends as to which is better
-Research other werewolf books and figure out how mine is different
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