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?

                                                           Goddie💋

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? 

                                                              Goodie💋