Howdy all!
This has been an exciting week for me. First off, I found all sorts of new gadgets on my blog that I added, such as a search, a view counter and you can now check a box at the end of each blog if you think the blog is (1) cool, (2) interesting, or (3) funny. Sorry, if you think it was awful, no easy way out for you, you will just have to go out of your way and post that in the comments section. I would love to hear your feedback about these new gadgets. If you like them, if you noticed them, that type of thing.
Secondly, I am trying a new thing, to post on a regular basis, every Friday. For those of you in the Western Hemisphere, you know that didn't last because today isn't Friday, yet. Hey, rules are meant to be broken. Besides, yeah for me. I'm usually a day late and a dollar short. Anyway, one step at a time. I'm just so excited about my new idea and can't wait one more day.
Some of you readers already know that I am working on turning Fish Tales into a book, a memoir. It will be a collection of short stories of my ventures and mishaps commercial fishing. The writing style will be similar to the blog (only I plan to have a professional editor on board to catch the typos!) and also will have a full night's sleep and hopefully won't be writing gibberish, unlike last summer when I tried to write after a fishing opener. Turns out, I'm not a genius on only two hours of sleep, I just think I am. At any rate, a few of these stories are already polished and finished and just sitting around collecting dust, patiently waiting for the rest of the book to be finished before they can make their debut. Well, the stories may be patient, but I am not! I want to get them out there for the world to read them! I want this for a few different reasons. Foremost, for your enjoyment. My dear reader as been hearing for over a year now that a book is in the works. I feel that I should reward you with something for sticking by me this whole time. I can't afford to buy you all pizza, so a story will have to do. Besides, less fattening.
Secondly, as an unpublished writer (I guess I'm not an author until I'm published, but I think that's like saying you are nobody until some body loves you. Hello, can we say co-dependent?) e-publishing is a good way to get some notoriety and gain a following. Or, note if there is a lack there of and that I need to go back to the drawing board.
Thirdly, because I can. The days of sitting on a gold mine master piece waiting patiently by the phone for a publisher to call you is over. That's like waiting for a guy to call you. I like to take the bull by the horn and create my own destiny. I just learned of this possibility this week (not the possibility of taking the bull by the horns but about e-publishing one single short story. I'm slow on the uptake on all this technology stuff. The manuscript itself is written in coal on stone. I'm researching the different options of where to publish, like Amazon, Scribd., Smashword, iBooks etc. I would love to hear any input on this or if you have any biases to any of these sites. I'm finding, like most of life in general, there are pro's and con's to each. Also, I've created a survey that you are more than welcome to take (hint, hint) to see if people would by one single short story at a time. It will only take about two minutes and is right here, if you feel so inclined. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K6SRQ8J. Huh, that didn't come up as a link, did it? Did I mention I'm technically challenged? Maybe that is why I like commercial fishing, we still fish the same way Jesus did back in his day. You may have to cut and past that to get it to go somewhere. I appreciate you taking the extra step and taking the survey. Please feel free to join in on this discussion, which, without you, is just a mono-log.
This has been an exciting week for me. First off, I found all sorts of new gadgets on my blog that I added, such as a search, a view counter and you can now check a box at the end of each blog if you think the blog is (1) cool, (2) interesting, or (3) funny. Sorry, if you think it was awful, no easy way out for you, you will just have to go out of your way and post that in the comments section. I would love to hear your feedback about these new gadgets. If you like them, if you noticed them, that type of thing.
Secondly, I am trying a new thing, to post on a regular basis, every Friday. For those of you in the Western Hemisphere, you know that didn't last because today isn't Friday, yet. Hey, rules are meant to be broken. Besides, yeah for me. I'm usually a day late and a dollar short. Anyway, one step at a time. I'm just so excited about my new idea and can't wait one more day.
Some of you readers already know that I am working on turning Fish Tales into a book, a memoir. It will be a collection of short stories of my ventures and mishaps commercial fishing. The writing style will be similar to the blog (only I plan to have a professional editor on board to catch the typos!) and also will have a full night's sleep and hopefully won't be writing gibberish, unlike last summer when I tried to write after a fishing opener. Turns out, I'm not a genius on only two hours of sleep, I just think I am. At any rate, a few of these stories are already polished and finished and just sitting around collecting dust, patiently waiting for the rest of the book to be finished before they can make their debut. Well, the stories may be patient, but I am not! I want to get them out there for the world to read them! I want this for a few different reasons. Foremost, for your enjoyment. My dear reader as been hearing for over a year now that a book is in the works. I feel that I should reward you with something for sticking by me this whole time. I can't afford to buy you all pizza, so a story will have to do. Besides, less fattening.
Secondly, as an unpublished writer (I guess I'm not an author until I'm published, but I think that's like saying you are nobody until some body loves you. Hello, can we say co-dependent?) e-publishing is a good way to get some notoriety and gain a following. Or, note if there is a lack there of and that I need to go back to the drawing board.
Thirdly, because I can. The days of sitting on a gold mine master piece waiting patiently by the phone for a publisher to call you is over. That's like waiting for a guy to call you. I like to take the bull by the horn and create my own destiny. I just learned of this possibility this week (not the possibility of taking the bull by the horns but about e-publishing one single short story. I'm slow on the uptake on all this technology stuff. The manuscript itself is written in coal on stone. I'm researching the different options of where to publish, like Amazon, Scribd., Smashword, iBooks etc. I would love to hear any input on this or if you have any biases to any of these sites. I'm finding, like most of life in general, there are pro's and con's to each. Also, I've created a survey that you are more than welcome to take (hint, hint) to see if people would by one single short story at a time. It will only take about two minutes and is right here, if you feel so inclined. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K6SRQ8J. Huh, that didn't come up as a link, did it? Did I mention I'm technically challenged? Maybe that is why I like commercial fishing, we still fish the same way Jesus did back in his day. You may have to cut and past that to get it to go somewhere. I appreciate you taking the extra step and taking the survey. Please feel free to join in on this discussion, which, without you, is just a mono-log.
1 comment:
Hey I am all too familar with the mono-log. I havent used the e-publishing options so dont have an opinion on them. I do however know that in this day and age and all the resources here on the net anything is possible. Personally Im not an E-book fan yet and would love to see all your stories in a collection- sell the individuals to magazines or some other outlet that only wants one at atime.
I do like some of the new gadgets you have added here though- the like/rate buttons on each post would have come in very handy on last summers CDV-Photo project. I think my site is due for an overhaul, will probably add a few of these myself.
Good luck with the project.
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