inspiration

  Hello, my new writers and authors. Happy March. Where do you get your inspiration for your stories? Don't judge me, but I'm a big fan of the series Love Kills. You know the show that has series like Southern Kills, My Crazy Ex-boyfriend, Who the heck did I marry, Scored Women, Wives with Knives, For My Man. Stories like that. Call me crazy, but people do some crazy stuff for money and just because. Which I find makes good short story ideas. You just don't realize all the things people do that can make a good story.  I'm not the kind of person who has good stories just come off the top of their head like some. So, I need a little help. Some people say to read the newspapers for inspiration. I tried that. The newspaper is too depressing for me, and the stories in the paper don't inspire me to write. But watching other people while I'm out doing stuff or watching a good series can inspire me. So, what inspires you to write?

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Is This You??

  Hello, my fellow writers. Happy March!  When you're writing, are you putting the cart before the horse? Meaning, do you do everything but write your stories? I'm guilty of that, instead of writing my stories or editing them once I have my first draft done. I'm to buzy finding out what I can put out on Kindle relating to e-books I can quickly write, or I'm trying to see what free writting classed I take on Reedsey, or I'm hunting writing groups and asking silly writing questions on Reddit that I'm not even ready for. Get the point. All this time wasted when   I should be using it to write the next story or editing more of the stories I have already written.  But instead, I wasted precious time doing stuff like I already have my book catalogue ready to go- Which I don't. I'm still editing a whole bunch of stuff and looking for new stories to write while doing stuff not related to writing, like life stuff. So, I ask you, as a new writer, do you do this?

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2026 Writing Year

       Hello new writers, this year 2026, I decided to devote most of my time to these things: either reviewing books for my podcast shows, writing books so that I can build a book catalogue, or learning how to be a better book writer. Yep, it's the year of books. I keep hearing and reading that you need to build a book catalogue before you publish your books.  What a book catalogue is to my understanding. Is you need to have at least 5-10 finished books ready to be published. We're talking written, edited, proofread, nice covers, all that stuff. so that when you do get a reader, and they want more of your books, they can get them because you have written them. I keep hearing that having only published one books you lose readers if they don't have other books from you that they might want to read. It makes sense to offer them a variety of your writing and keep the readers. So that's what I'm doing, writing a variety of at least 5 books If I'm lucky, for 2026, and some short stories to see what happens. Did I mention I'm a hobby writer, and if I make money from my stories, that would just be an added plus. So, what are you doing as far as your writing goes for 2026? 

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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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