Are You Like Me??

 Hello, my writers and new authors. Are you like me? I am in the process of creating a series, plus writing short stories. Still, I get bogged down with watching YouTube videos on writing, formatting, amazon kindle, doing 30 day writing challenges. What I'm saying is that I get distracted so easily that I forget that I have about 3 projects that need to be edited, two that need to be finished, and two that I haven't even started yet, but I have the outline. Like I have no time to be distracted, but I am sometimes. All under the disguise of learning and not doing. Is this you? My goal for the next 6 months is to create a backlog of books so that I can put them out for people to read either for free or on Kindle to make at least coffee and book money. Which would be about $30 a month. Is that realistic when it comes to writing short stories for kindle short reads to make? Anyway, that's my goal and my crazy, distracted life. What about you?

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What Happen!!!

                                                Hello, all my new authors and writers 

Happy Monday. What happen!! I mean one minute I was writing a short story to add to my collection of short stories that I write. Then all of a sudden, I ended up writing a novella with 14,688 words for one story. Has that ever happened to you? The short story seems to have run away with the words. The characters in the story wanted a longer version of themselves. I was just the instrument they needed to use to say what they wanted to say. And did they use me. So much that my short story which supposed to be under 2,000 words landed over 14,000. Now I have to separate it from my other short stories. Give it a title and make a book cover. And did I mention it needs more editing than my other short stories.

At least I'm on the editing stage to the story. Now if I could just get back to the other stories.  I have waited their turn to be edited. Did I mention I hate editing. I like writing the other stuff not so much. What about you?

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Confusing!!!

  Hello, My Authors, New Writers. It's confusing being a writer. especially if you have no real money to do it with. The writing part is kind of easy, but the rest of the stuff is crazy. There's the editing of the first draft you've written, and the editing part is like 5 steps, if not more, until your draft looks darn near perfect. Then, between all that, it's the social media thing where you put the announcement about your new book, and also let's not forget, do you need an author website, and at what cost?? You see so much stuff to learn about becoming a writer, and I'm only doing this for a hobby, and maybe down the line, make some coffee and book money from it. God willing. Anyway, I'm still in the process of editing my stories, but I'm looking into a free author website. I've started with Google Sites. It's free, and I'm debating whether to use their free domain name or get my own for $20 a year. Some people on Reddit swear by Carrd. It's free, and it's a basic landing page for new authors. Some go with Substack. There are so many. I look for free stuff to use for my writing because I'm working with like $50 buck for this hobby at most.

So, my question to you is, do you have or are you thinking about making an author's website?  If so, who are you using?

                                       

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