A worthwhile risk is always worth taking, in my opinion. I’ve been writing since I was 9 years old. Over the years, I made a lot of attempts to go the traditional route with publishing. For a brief time, I had an agent – but he wasn’t the right fit for me (sci-fi fantasy wasn’t entirely his thing). After my first professional edit – my fantasy novel, Seeker – I queried lots and lots of
Yes, but not in an entirely obvious way. Storytelling isn’t just making something up and sharing it. It’s a much broader topic that includes fiction, nonfiction, and general dissemination of information. Storytelling has been part of every culture on the planet. From ancient times to today, there have always been storytellers. Long before hieroglyphs or the written word, information was shared via stories. Over time, storytelling has become representative of campfire tales, bedtime stories, and
AI is just another tool that’s not been fully defined yet. Before the advent of the word processor, you had to rely on yourself and others to proofread your work. Typos had to be sought out – and fixing them took white-out and repositioning the paper to retype your work. There was no backspace or delete for that. When computers became more readily available, we got spellcheckers. That lovely tool in most (all, I think)
This is a rambling, jumbled, uncertain mess – but I know others go through this sort of thing, too. The upside to being an indie author is that, to all intents and purposes, I’m an independent business. Maybe the term is authorpreneur? That’s fancy and probably a bit pretentious. I choose when I write, what I write, how to publish and market my work, and am accountable to myself on every level. This brings me
Maybe, maybe not. I know that I do. I’ve self-published a dozen books, sci-fi, fantasy, and Steampunk. As of this writing, I have 4 completed books I’ve edited that need to go to an editor. I have 3 unedited, complete books and am nearing the end of a 4th. The new series I’ve been working on – Savagespace – was planned and plotted to be 6 books total. As planned, they’d be around 200 pages
Coordinating all the elements of writing work is not without challenges. First and foremost, I’m a storyteller. Whether it’s a blog, podcast, fiction, or recounting a tale from my frequently awesome life experiences, I love to tell the stories. For a time, finding and crossing the bridge between my works – fiction, nonfiction, business – occupied much of my focus. Then I got it in hand and moved past it. Until I needed to reorganize
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