Mist and Shadows

This update is a little later than usual – half way into the month.  A quarter of the year is now down.

The output for March was 20.6K of drafts and 50.3K of rewrites for almost 71k words.  At little down on February but still a good amount.

During the month I finished off the rewrite of the nano novel.  The next step is to do a bit of a polish of it, to clean it up and get it ready for a release later on in the year.

I also released the next of the short fiction collection, a second in the Peregrine and Blade series.

It is hard to believe that we are already two months down in the year.

February was another good month.  I kept on with the writing every day, plus managed a couple of other things.

Word count was 52335 of drafts and 40437 of rewrites, for a total of 92682 of for the month.

I slowed down on the rough drafts towards the end of the month to concentrate mostly on the rewrites.

Unlike January, I mostly focused on just a few projects.  I finished off the rough draft of the first novella of the space opera series I started on before shifting over to the epic fantasy novel, which is up to almost 37,000 words.  For the rewrites, I was working entirely on the nano novel from last year.  My plan is to get it done and then polish it up ready to get out there.  It is 40,000 words in now and going strong.  At my current rate, it should be done in about a week.

In addition to that I also put out the first four of the short fiction pieces, getting over my self doubts.  Three are from The Chronicles of  White Bull and the fourth from The Deeds of Peregrine and Blade.  More will follow in the coming weeks and months as I get the novels ready.  I’ll update on that in a later post.

I’ve been reading webcomics for quite a while now – some I’ve stuck with, others, due to time constraints I’ve let drop.  I’m a big fan of them and how they go about telling there stories.  Now if only I could draw…

But I can’t, so I write.

Webcomics, for the most, sell there stories differently than authors.  They give it away for free upfront.  You go to the webcomic and there it is, available to read.  And yet, even doing so, some authors of webcomics earn a living.  They do this by building up a fanbase through there works who then buy copies of the book, the merchandise, sponsor them like old fashioned patrons etc.

Authors tend not to work that way, at least not for those who write full length novels.  For those that write short fiction and serials there are some who do so.

It is something that I am starting to try out now.  I have started a new blog, Tales From a Thousand Worlds, where three times a week I’ll post my short stories in small parts of about 1000 words at a time, give or take.  It is both an experiment and an effort to hopefully begin building up a collection of people who enjoy reading my stories, and do so on a regular basis.

We’ll see how it goes.