Blog Attempt
Of late I have been fighting with motivation to post articles to my blog.
Mostly it’s due to the fact that most of my mental ability is drained by work. So, understandably, I nap on the 30-minute train ride home.
The past week I have succeeded reading articles in The Writer, or By Darkness Hid (by Jill Williamson, Marcher Lord Press). A couple days I was even able to write a couple hundred words in my 2009 NaNovel WIP, Silver and Iron.
It will be an exercise in practicing diligence and discipline, and that is definitely something I am willing to practice. Writing would be lost without diligence, and my life would not be the same without writing.
This past week I have also been fighting with the PDF proof review process at CreateSpace. I don’t remember it being this much of a horror last year, and that has me wondering if it is due to the fact they have merged with BookSurge.
Why would that make a difference?
BookSurge was a P-O-D publisher that charged money for each individual publishing plan. Now that they have merged with CreateSpace, they have begun marketing their different publishing plans.
Don’t get me wrong! All of those additional options are fantastic, but I am a very hands-on type of person who has the necessary tools at her disposal to create the covers and insides herself. I don’t need help. So it is understandably aggravating when the dpi is at the recommended level (300) and yet they tell me it isn’t… o.O
Just a frustration that has been costing me a lot of time babying the document when I can see by the specs that it is just fine!
*ahem*back on task
SO, in order to try and keep busy with some aspect of my ‘writing career’, I perform marketing of To Save a Soul on goodreads.com and authonomy.com in hopes that it will boost awareness and get more manuscripts sold.
Thanks to Tommie Lyn for the nudges she gives me to different websites here and there that help with that process. She has been instrumental, especially with getting me the names and links of those people who are willing to review my manuscript for free. 
It’s nice to be able to see the reviews on a website, or the quotes on the back cover of my book. I hope all you writers out there experience that same thrill at least one point in your life before you give up on the pursuit of being a novelist… or you die.
Morbid, I know. My apologies. I’m tired and a bit punchy.
The reading and interaction with other writers is priceless – I cannot stress that enough. Not only does it allow me the opportunity of viewing other styles, but it influences my own voice. The encouragement I feel, the gumption to press onward, the determination to try yet another draft or turn of page… I wouldn’t have them without the interactions with others.
I probably wouldn’t be in print, and on Kindle, now if it wasn’t for the firm and loving words of my husband and my friends at CW. After all, I can’t hold my manuscripts close forever. Like children, they must be set free so that they – and I – can grow.
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