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Thursday, May 28, 2015
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
First book now on sale!
For everyone who loves a bit of good old-fashion adventure, comes the first in a series of e-novellas in a pulp SF style.
Each monthly installment will be about 20,000 words, which only takes about an hour or so to read. Just long enough to be a fun ride, but not so long as to outstay its welcome!
I hope you enjoy, and thanks for checking it out.
First installment complete!
Part 1 of "Dr. Jeremiah" is uploaded to Amazon and awaiting processing.
Now, it can take two or three days before it is live and available for purchase, but I am so excited to get this out there to all of you!
I have no idea how much of an audience will be out there for a monthly pulp SF novella series, but will be happy to find out! I'm committed to at least six months of this series (I expect sales will be very slow indeed until at least three or so installments are out there) and we'll see what happens from there.
As soon as the ebook is out there for real, I will post a link (and a video) here.
Very excited about the start of something new!
(And now it's time to get down to writing Issue #2...)
Now, it can take two or three days before it is live and available for purchase, but I am so excited to get this out there to all of you!
I have no idea how much of an audience will be out there for a monthly pulp SF novella series, but will be happy to find out! I'm committed to at least six months of this series (I expect sales will be very slow indeed until at least three or so installments are out there) and we'll see what happens from there.
As soon as the ebook is out there for real, I will post a link (and a video) here.
Very excited about the start of something new!
(And now it's time to get down to writing Issue #2...)
Monday, May 25, 2015
Redrafting: How Much or How Little
They say that rewriting is harder than writing. I say that this is an understatement.
In fact, in general I just prefer not to do it. If there was a way I thought this could be done better, I would have done it that way in the first place. Right?
Except that that is nonsense. Just an excuse for me not to have to do the hard work. Taking a step back and reading through your material can show something to be very different from what you thought you had written.
Parts that took you hours and hours (and, indeed, days) to write, take up only a tiny space on the page. And that section that you zipped through in an afternoon turns out to be as lengthy a portion as that which you agonized over for weeks. You thought you had written one thing, but upon reading the result you discover that it is something else entirely.
Thankfully my first installment of "Dr. Jeremiah" looks to be more or less as I had intended it to be, but still a lot of rewriting lies ahead. Besides the constant polishing (honestly, I could tinker with the wording of my prose for the rest of eternity and still not consider it to be finished) I know there are things that need to be "punched up". Details I glossed over, characters who all sound alike, you know the kind of thing. But (despite my antipathy towards the process) this is easy stuff.
How much more difficult it is when what you've written isn't working. When what seemed just right in outline form takes a very different shape on the eventual page. Facing the prospect of almost completely reworking from scratch massive segments of your work is daunting to the point of wanting to scrap it in its entirety and start again. (Sometimes, indeed, this is just best.)
Always on completing a piece of writing (besides the endless tinkering with phraseology) I want to just consider it done and put it out there into the world. I like to pretend that all of that writing I just went through was "the hard part". When I know better, I know that the real work is just beginning.
And I never was all that fond of work.
In fact, in general I just prefer not to do it. If there was a way I thought this could be done better, I would have done it that way in the first place. Right?
Except that that is nonsense. Just an excuse for me not to have to do the hard work. Taking a step back and reading through your material can show something to be very different from what you thought you had written.
Parts that took you hours and hours (and, indeed, days) to write, take up only a tiny space on the page. And that section that you zipped through in an afternoon turns out to be as lengthy a portion as that which you agonized over for weeks. You thought you had written one thing, but upon reading the result you discover that it is something else entirely.
Thankfully my first installment of "Dr. Jeremiah" looks to be more or less as I had intended it to be, but still a lot of rewriting lies ahead. Besides the constant polishing (honestly, I could tinker with the wording of my prose for the rest of eternity and still not consider it to be finished) I know there are things that need to be "punched up". Details I glossed over, characters who all sound alike, you know the kind of thing. But (despite my antipathy towards the process) this is easy stuff.
How much more difficult it is when what you've written isn't working. When what seemed just right in outline form takes a very different shape on the eventual page. Facing the prospect of almost completely reworking from scratch massive segments of your work is daunting to the point of wanting to scrap it in its entirety and start again. (Sometimes, indeed, this is just best.)
Always on completing a piece of writing (besides the endless tinkering with phraseology) I want to just consider it done and put it out there into the world. I like to pretend that all of that writing I just went through was "the hard part". When I know better, I know that the real work is just beginning.
And I never was all that fond of work.
Sunday, May 24, 2015
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words
As I work hard on the first installment of "Dr. Jeremiah", as well as plotting out the next few, I thought I would show you all a few images representing - not the content of the stories - but the tone of them.
I put these together (rather hurriedly) from some images I found on the internet. The intention is to give an idea of the type of stories I will be trying to tell.
Hopefully, these will demonstrate the concept, and get you intrigued about the adventures of our favorite Victorian doctor.
I put these together (rather hurriedly) from some images I found on the internet. The intention is to give an idea of the type of stories I will be trying to tell.
Hopefully, these will demonstrate the concept, and get you intrigued about the adventures of our favorite Victorian doctor.
Monday, May 18, 2015
New Series introduction
Hi all, and welcome to my new blog about an upcoming series of e-novellas on Amazon called "The Star Travels of Dr Jeremiah Fothering-Smythe".
The series revolves around a Victorian gentleman by the name of (you guessed it!) Jeremiah Fothering-Smythe, who is abducted by aliens and finds himself in outer space and desperate to return home to Mother Earth.
In a series of pulp sci-fi adventures akin to Flash Gordon or John Carter, Jeremiah hops his way across the galaxy in an epic search for his homeworld. Each novella takes him to a new place, though some characters and events will continue to affect his journey across the books.
At about 20,000 words each, the novellas have just enough room to tell a fun adventure story, while being short enough to read in one sitting. They will be exciting, adventurous and a whole lot of fun!
We hope you will join Dr Jeremiah Fothering-Smythe on his journey across the stars. (Coming soon.)
The series revolves around a Victorian gentleman by the name of (you guessed it!) Jeremiah Fothering-Smythe, who is abducted by aliens and finds himself in outer space and desperate to return home to Mother Earth.
In a series of pulp sci-fi adventures akin to Flash Gordon or John Carter, Jeremiah hops his way across the galaxy in an epic search for his homeworld. Each novella takes him to a new place, though some characters and events will continue to affect his journey across the books.
At about 20,000 words each, the novellas have just enough room to tell a fun adventure story, while being short enough to read in one sitting. They will be exciting, adventurous and a whole lot of fun!
We hope you will join Dr Jeremiah Fothering-Smythe on his journey across the stars. (Coming soon.)
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