CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

So, I am still trying to catch up on the bloggery’s that I’ve subscribed to – and I’ve missed the last three days of reading so I’m really not succeeding; I’m also trying to keep caught up, so if you see a few familiar names here, it’s because they posted more. Dean Wesley Smith on the new seasons of publishing: http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/?p=7919 ; Kristine Kathryn Rusch on building a long-term writing career: http://kriswrites.com/2012/09/26/the-business-rusch-watching-the-numbers/ ; ·          JA Pitts about doing the hard work to achieve a dream: http://www.genreality.net/the-dangerous-dream ; Jeff Bennington at The Writing Bomb writes about how badly you have to want something to succeed at it: http://thewritingbomb.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/how-to-be-successful-at-anything.html ; Joanna Penn on her first year as a writer: http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2012/09/25/1-year-author-entrepreneur/ ; Chuck Wendig on how to reset your m...

The first four Simpson Anthologies are now available as e-book PDFs from my publishing page at DriveThruFiction.com : An Anthology of Dragons                                                               An Anthology of Battle An Anthology of Those Who Walk Among Us                               An Anthology of Worlds

Current Projects This week I completed the following work on my current projects: ·          RomanceNovel1A: Added 2,000 words, completed novel; ·          DarkFantasyNovel1A: Added 6,000 words to the rewrite; and ·          DarkFantasyNovel1B: Revised the first 3 chapters, a total of 7,000 words. Publishing and non-writing Tasks This week I completed the following tasks related to independently publishing my work: ·          Updated blog 8 times ; ·          Re leased the large-print version of An Anthology of Dragons on CreateSpace/Amazon . This week I completed the following tasks related to developing my art and writing skills: ·          The terribleminds flash fiction challenge (See Poem32—The Novice and the Damn...

At the end of April 2012, when I started publishing my stories on-line, I only had a vague idea of what I was doing. I had done my research, reading as widely as I could for the preceding six months and discovering a number of blog authors whose advice and opinions I found invaluable as I made up my mind on what I wanted to do next. I decided to start with anthologies for three reasons: 1.       I had a lot of short stories that I had written over the years and putting them into themed anthologies was an idea I’d been toying with for a while. 2.       All the blogs I had read on the subject said an author with one book was very difficult to find, and by publishing the short stories and poems individually, I was able to have a number of titles to catch the eye. Also, by releasing each individual piece separately, I provided my readers with the option of buying a sample that was cheaper than the anthology, kept myself to a dead...