Word Count, Vol. 2: 77819
News: Big thanks to all who bought Echo! AND, let’s not forget…HUGE thanks to Melissa, Barbara, Ian, Lorna, [anonymous], Lisa, and Meg for posting amazing, AMAZING reviews on Amazon!!! Thank you so much! 🙂 🙂 🙂
I’m on the 23rd chapter of Vol. 2, and it’s coming along, coming along. I’m refining this art of being open and loose while I’m drafting, then being harsh and unmerciful when I’m editing. Being an independent writer is like being a two-headed person. In drafting, I have to just let things flow and focus on getting the events out. In editing, I have to critique myself as harshly as possible and still be constructive about it. But the sword must come out, and words must be chopped. (Get out of here, redundant descriptions!) Man, big publishing houses take a lot of your royalties, but they also ease a lot of your pain by providing an editor.
Anyways, thank you guys for all the kind comments and support, now it’s back to work! To all you writers, I wish you inspired drafting and insightful editing!
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha 
How are you marketing your book?
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Right now I’m downthrottling marketing as I’m focusing on doing volume 2, but I still do twice a week ads where I make up a stupid, funny story about my book. I’m also using booktweep, but I’m not sure how effective it is.
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Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I am looking forward to volume 2. I love your ads on here by the way. They always make me smile. I usually share them with my friends. Your writing is their kind of reading. 🙂 I will look into booktweep. I’m trying to learn as much as I can about marketing. I have a novella on sale now and I am working on publishing 2 full length novels in the next few months. I just need to write the last chapters of both. Hoping to figure out this marketing thing by the time they go on presale.
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Thank you for the kind words! Good luck with the novella/novels! As far as booktweep goes, a word of caution-though they are by far the lowest priced tweet advertising I have found to date, they are pretty unresponsive with their emails.
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I found another one, #bookboost. If you tweet them using that hashtag, they’ll retweet your exact tweet for free once a day. They have packages where you can pay for more but free works for me! I got 113 impressions from that one tweet. 🙂
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Wow, thanks! I will look into it!
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you’re welcome! I hope it helps. Now I just need folks to buy my book. I got the eyes now I need the clicks! I don’t know how you’re getting that but kudos to you!
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Basically I dedicate a certain amount of time each day to following and friend requesting and then I try to think of short entertaining posts. My logic is that people who don’t know me don’t want to read a whole sample chapter, even if it’s free, so I craft less time consuming snippets to throw out there.
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Hmm I will have to try that 🙂 Thank you for the advice! I like your snippets. They are intriguing and humorous.
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Thank you! Yep, I say one of the most oft ignored aspects of creativity is creatively making ways that it can be put in front of others…Whatever works!
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I’m still learning. I appreciate the advice 🙂
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Absolutely!
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Are you using Beta-readers for editing? And if so, where do you find them? I’ve had some luck with people I’ve met through goodreads groups.
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I have one betareader who is incredibly versed in literature. While style and excitement are subjective things, I would suggest a betareader who knows their way around literary analysis, perhaps a writing teacher of some sort. They will be able to explain why something feels right even though it doesn’t make sense and could have easily gone a different way; it’s because the author is adhering to underlying literary themes.
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