Welcome to Indielife
Wednesday, this wonderful event takes place the second Wednesday of each
month thanks to http://indeliblewriters.blogspot.com , a collection of amazing indie writers.
Today I’m going to point out a fellow blogger that
has been instrumental to me figuring out this whole blogging/writing/publishing
thing. Susan Kaye Quinn. Many of you probably follow her and know exactly what
I’m talking about. With seventeen indi-published books, this woman is a wealth
of information, which she is very generous with sharing. And now she has a book
to prove it. Earlier this month Indie Author Survival Guide was released. I don’t
know exactly when because it wasn’t on blogs or anything else like that, it
just silently made its way into the world. I picked it up on my kindle last
week, but haven’t read it yet, but plan to within the next week, so stop back for
that review next Friday.
What
I’ve been reading: Just finished Open Minds by Susan Kaye
Quinn (that’s how I found out about her survival guide-those what else you
might like by this author tab on amazon’s site is always so helpful) This book
is the first in a trilogy that has all the books released already, so I can
just go right onto the next one without the wait. I love that. Look for a
review of this book here on Friday.
What
I’ve been writing: Well I did it. I faced that blank
screen and started writing. It happened in the flukiest of ways. I had a dream
the other night and it was about a book I’d written two NaNoWriMos ago. I never
did anything with it, it’s just been collecting “dust” in my computer. But this
dream was from a completely different characters perspective. And it got my
blood boiling in a very good way. I grabbed my journal and jotted down some
notes and later that day had 1,600 words on that blank screen. It felt
fabulous.
What’s
inspiring me right now: Getting ready for NaNo. This year
I’ll be going to my local meet and greets for the first time. Can’t wait for
that collective energy.
What
else I’ve been up to: Very Deep into homeschooling
right now. It’s so wonderful to see your child’s face light up when they read
the same books you loved as a child.
I can't imagine writing that many books.
ReplyDeleteGlad the dream fired you up!
I love it when dreams give me ideas, even better when they help me to go back to something I haven't worked on in a while. Good luck getting ready for NaNo! I haven't even started my planning yet.
ReplyDeleteAh, dreams...
ReplyDeleteSusan's Mindjack series is pretty stellar. That first book really just took me places I hadn't anticipated--the twists and turns! Whew! Awesome.
Way to get back into writing, and home schooling... Yeah, I need to be better--like you.
I did NaNo for the first time after procrastinating for YEARS. It was so awesome getting together with my local WriMos. That was my favorite part.
ReplyDeleteI love when inspiration strikes! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteHow exciting to have such an inspiring dream! I hope drafting goes smoothly for you!
ReplyDeleteGood grief! 17 books?
ReplyDeleteI'm on my way to find that white page myself. I kept putting it off by blog surfing, but now that I read that you worked past it, I have to go write too.
Sigh . . .
Seventeen books. I feel like I'm speaking off her with zero books to my name. Time to get in that. That black outrage is just taunting me.
ReplyDelete1,600 words is a great haul for one sitting! I'd love that to be my average. Congratulations, and good luck on NaNo!
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