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? 

                                                             Goodie💋

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....

                                                         Goodie💋

  

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!  

                                                             Goodie💋