Tag: indie author
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56,000 Moving Parts – Try Fixing That!
As far as I can tell, cars have on average about 14,000 moving parts. Complicated to fix? Yes, I think so. And my car knows a thing or two about having its parts moved around on a frequent basis. Well, my new novel, The Recluse Storyteller, has 56,000 moving parts. As I’m in the final stages of…
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Proofreaders … ahh … well, hang on. A little snag.
Remember that cheeky post from the other day, gloating that I was done with revisions and ready to send to my proofreaders. Well, no, that isn’t happening. Not yet. Remember that other post I had about the curse of reading my own writing. As I started doing one final read-through before handing it to the…
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Working on the Recluse
I wrote The Recluse Storyteller using WORD (Boo! Don’t worry. Never again. It was before I knew about Scrivener) in the summer of 2012. Now, I’m tasked with copying it over and formatting it Scrivener, so I can create the final Kindle version for release in early October. Formatting Scrivener is not the easiest thing in…
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Finding the Right Book Title
Some book titles just write themselves; they are so obvious that there could be no other title which would mean as much. My novella was about a spy named Blue. Super easy title: Spy Blue My first novel was titled after the translated meaning of one of the main characters, plus served as a symbolic…
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Note to Self: A Writer’s Doubts Never Ends
I’ve been pushing myself to get novel three done – or at least the first draft. I have about five more days to accomplish my goal. I’m upwards of 57,000 as we speak with still a lot of interesting issues to be resolved. My old friend Doubt popped in to say ‘hello’ today. He rears…
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Writers and Restaurateurs: Same Same
A restaurateur requested of some patrons to add their honest restaurant reviews to Trip Advisor to help build word about the relatively new restaurant. Hmmm. There must be a parallel between restaurants and writing. Let’s explore. Imagine if there was a industry-wide restaurant review system where a group of food raters would tell the entrepreneurs…
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What is the ideal chapter length?
This is one of those questions where there is no correct answer. So the better question would be this: When you are reading a book, do you like long chapters or short chapters? Chapters are, of course, natural starting and stopping points of a novel. If a chapter is well written and gripping, length doesn’t…
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Writing (for me) is a step by step commitment
I’ve said it before that for me writing is more of a discovery process than anything else. Today, as I was thinking through a chapter I’m working on, I asked myself what I was committing to complete at this point. I realized that I am committed one hundred percent on the current chapter only, but…
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Plugging Away on Novel #3: How much time between releases?
Summer break for a teacher. Is there anything better in the world? It has been great to finally have time to write. I’m currently working on novel #3 even though novel two hasn’t even been released yet. It’s a little trick I like to have up my sleeve. Have the next one complete before I…
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Can we identify a real person’s ‘superobjective’ by how they actually behave in real life?
As I think about writing and character development and human behavior and a ton of other things, I keep going back to the fascinating world of the superobjective. A superobjective is what acting coach Larry Moss calls the overarching goal or desire of a character’s existence. Whether acting or writing, keeping the superobjective in mind…
Author Mark W Sasse 