CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

I spent most of the week not looking at my computer. It was good to catch up on blogs and authors and bits and pieces. Here are the ones that I read through to the end. I’ve divided them up into areas of interest, but ‘Other Stuff’ contains a fun airline advertisement revolving around characters from ‘The Hobbit’. Enjoy. Craft: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2012/11/27/how-chuck-wendig-writes-a-novel/ http://fantasyhandbook.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/how-not-to-open-a-short-story/ Publishing: http://www.thebookdesigner.com/2012/11/claire-ryan/ http://www.thepassivevoice.com/11/2012/selling-my-book-on-amazon-vs-selling-on-my-own-site/ http://www.thepassivevoice.com/11/2012/indie-authors-need-to-become-great-publishers/ http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2012/smashwords-ceo-mark-coker-indie-authors-need-to-become-great-publishers/ http://accrispin.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/guest-blog-post-mustering-courage-to.html http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2012/11/25/ebook-publish

Here we go again, another week gone, but progress has been made. Current Projects Novella1A for PenName1: Revised Prologue through Chapter4, and added 2,000 words. DarkFantasyNovel1A: Completed revised outline spanning three chapters of work, changing perspective, correcting timeline and tightening the focus. It’s taken me a week to work out how to approach this section of the rewrite. Added 2,500 words. Publishing Tasks Created 2 blog entries for my blog and 0 for my publishing blog Did a brief analysis on the last six-and-a-half months of sales and found a huge, but predictable, genre difference. Craft Completed ShortStory51— A Partnership for flash fiction challenge due Monday 19 November 2012. This story will also feature in Anthology19 , which, I’m planning for early-mid next year. New Arrivals ShortStory51—A Partnership , in response to this week’s terriblemindsflash fiction challenge .