I Read this Alot

  Hello all, Happy Feb 1st. I been reading on the craft of writing, really, people are calling it an art. There's a lot to learn. Who knew that just writing your story was the first part, then you got your editing, which is about 3-4 parts, depending on how long your story is. Then you have your beta readers, if you can find any. After your beta readers told you how much your story sucks(kidding) and how to improve it. Then you start your rewriting or improvement on your story, and then you're still not finish you run your story through the spelling and grammar checkers system(Grammarly). After all that, you might be finished then. And all it took you to finish was about one to two years of your free time. Some writers don't finish at all. 

What I'm getting at is that I always read where the writer needs a backlog of books, say 5 or more. Because once he puts his book out there to sell. The readers of his book might want to read some more of his books. If he's only written one, there is no more, and you might lose readers that way. So, I've read.  That's why you need a backlog of 5 or more books, short stories, or novellas included. So, you won't lose readers who like your stories. I'm at that stage now, building my backlog for 2026. Let me tell you it ain't easy. I have stuff that needs to be edited, and I have ideas that need to be written. To be honest, my editing process of a story, even if it's a short story under 2500 words, is pretty slow. So you can write stories is more of a hobby for me. What about you? 

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I Hate Editing!!

  Hello, my new writers/ authors, Ok, hate is not the right word, strongly dislike editing is better. I like the writing of the story, but going back to re-read what I have written after a couple of months of it sitting there. Is the pits. When I do start my editing process, I find that I tend to make so many changes to the original story that it's like I have rewritten the whole story all over again from the beginning.  Or I do other silly things in the middle of the story, or at the end of the story, while editing it. Which changes the whole concept of the story.  Do you do that too? So now, when I edit, I make the changes I need to make while still saving the original story that was first written. I block it out with XXX on top and say on the side, save for later. That way, I can rewrite the story if I have to without losing the original story I have written. Because to be honest, if I had to write some of my stories over again from the beginning, I couldn't because I wouldn't remember what I had written the first time. Sounds crazy, right? So, I take my editing process slowly and read line by line to make sure it makes sense, and the story flows right. What's your editing process?

P.S. Reedsey Learning Center offers great free classes in editing and other stuff to help writers like us learn the craft better. I use their free class all the time and learn a lot from them. Just saying....

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2026 Writing Goals

 Hello, all, happy 2026. Do you have any writing goals for 2026? I do. It's to finish my novella that I'm currently working on and start a series about demons that's stuck in my head. I want to write short stories and put them on Amazon for an experiment, but that might be too much. I need to concentrate on one thing at a time. Since I'm just learning the craft of writing, and I want to be good at it.  I am also learning a lot from the people at Redditt  in the self-publishing and beginning writers'  area. They share a lot of interesting stuff; you need to check it out.

So, let's see what 2026 will bring us in the writing realm. I wish you all the best, and be happy this year, and do write something. It could be anything, just write!  

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Yea I think.

 Hello, my writers. I got my first review for the story I put out on Inkitt. I was scared to read the review at first. Then I bit the bullet. It wasn't a bad review, more constructive, and I appreciated it. the person told me what I needed to correct and look at in my future written stories. Since this is my hobby, I took the person's advice to heart and will be longing for the things that were mentioned in my other stories that I will be publishing.

I'm the kind of person who always puts the cart before the horse in writing my stories. First, I write by the seat of my pants; I like it that way, and then I try to find out where to publish my stories before they are even written. Crazy right? So, all I'm saying is write the stories that you love and put them out there. what's the worst that could happen? You get constructive feedback, praise, or a silly comment. At least you know somebody pays attention to your story and you build from that.

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I Did It!!!!

  Hello, all I did it! I published my first book on Inkitt. Here's the link to it https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1596236. I'm so proud of myself. Even if I get one reader, I'm still good. I posted the story for feedback and to see if I could just do it. So, you know if I can do it, you can too. And I'm not that good a writer yet!  So, for 2026, start writing that story that's in your head already.  Because we want to read it.

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Never Enough

  Hello, all happy belated Holiday.  Hope during all this quiet time, you got some work done. I'm here to tell you, no matter how much editing you do yourself on your book, it's never enough. I have edited my book three times, and when I start to put it online, I still see that the book needs corrections. That is the least fun part of trying to be a writer: it's the editing that needs to be done. I know you're saying hire an editor to do it for you. that's all well and good, but I'm trying to do this a cheaply as possible while learning the trade myself. As much as I can, I want to learn about writing a book without the problem of spending a lot of money to do it.

So, what are your writing plans for 2026? also, if you need some good basic free writing instruction, try Reedsey. I love them. They will also help you format your book. Which I haven't tried yet.

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Scary..

  Hello, it's scary to think that your stories are out on the net for people to read and comment on. I'm in the process of putting some of my stories on Inkitt ( will let you know when they are officially published) for them to be reviewed. I'm in the learning stage of becoming a writer. My stories are ok, but that's just me. I need to see what others think of them, good or bad. I've read some stories in my day that were both good and some not so good.  either way, the  good and not-so-good stories are out on Amazon. My thoughts were if you can write a bad book and people buy it, and I can think of a dark romance book I read that was horrible. The characters' story, plot line, was not edited correctly. Everything was wrong with this book, but yet on Amazon, they got rave reviews, go figure? Anyway, I'm taking my book writing shot and see what happens. Hope you do the same, take your shot, write that book or short story, and see what happens. Has scary as it is, take the chance and just do it!  

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