Showing posts with label online publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online publishing. Show all posts

Monday, September 19, 2011

ADD and Writing

I think the reason I have so many projects in the air right now is because of my Attention Deficit Disorder.  I start one project then another.

If I can just write 200 words or less each day for each project, I will have them done soon.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Unreading Writers

I'm amazed at how many people are reading this blog--especially compared to the small numbers reading my blovel or web fiction.

All I can figure is that more people want to write the "Great American Novel" (whatever that animal is) than read it.

Not me.  I have always found reading much easier than writing--except when I try to bone up on my Spanish by reading books in that language.  Ficciones de Jorge Luis Borges.  For example.

My problem is, although I have a lot of free time, I wind up reading so much more than I do writing that I don't get much done.  At least not as much as I would like to.  Stephen King recommends at least a few hours of reading per day along with I can't remember how many words.  1000 I think; half what he does himself.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Because I am Crazy

Why am I working on two pieces of fiction at once plus this blogsite?  Good question.

I remember a theater class I took once.  The professor, an older actor, talked about what a rough life it was acting and how there was little money in it, when you got down to the facts.  (Hollywood stars are the lottery winners of the acting gig.)

I raised my hand and asked him why he chose to act.  "Because," he patiently explained, "I'm crazy."

Why am I doing this when there is practically no money and a lot of hard work involved?  Because I'm crazy.  And I probably have ADD too.  :)

Pandamian

Yesterday I discovered a new website where you can publish your ebooks without a great deal of trouble.  I published the first chapter of my novel online at sirensong.pandamian.com.  I may also try blovelspot as well.  If I do, I will be sure to let my followers here know about it.  I am not sure what money if any I will make, but that isn't my primary goal as a writer.