Yesterday I attended a Writers’ Workshop event, which was interesting as I’ve not been able to make their weekend events in York. There was some interesting food for thought and I took lots of notes. I had a useful book … Continue reading →
Not much to report this time as working on Squidoo has blanked out any free time for the WIP. There’s a lot of keyword research that has to be done to try to get Google traffic. The initial positive results … Continue reading →
Squidooed again to some extent in the last few days, but I now have 5 lenses published, plus one in progress. Meanwhile, the requirement for a one page synopsis by the publisher still has me stumped. I’ve struggled mightily in … Continue reading →
Got an email on Wednesday night from the Amazon folks with a link to check if I’d got through the first sift on the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Turns out I made it through on my category – YA – … Continue reading →
I think I might have broken my steady record of posting on ROW80. Up to last Sunday inclusive I had always made the deadline, even if I just got in on the last day. But I don’t see a link … Continue reading →
After a mammoth concentrated effort, I finally managed to post my first ever Squidoo lens! I am so so pleased to have finally done this given the interface which is not WYSIWYG so it turns out to be laid out … Continue reading →
Gosh! Darn and other expletives. Well, time to check in with ROW80 and unfortunately apart from some further research on a Squidoo lens, including identifying creative commons pictures and roughing out where they go in the lens etc., not much … Continue reading →
The last few days have been spent battling with Squidoo. I enjoy the creation of words but all the palaver with html to get pictures positioned and captioned, not to mention resolving copyright issues. Lots of extra tasks are piling up … Continue reading →
That’ll teach me to be more disciplined – I’ve been meaning to do some writing on Squidoo for a while. Finally started this week which means that again I’ve got nothing done on the WIP! This should have been an … Continue reading →
Darn, it’s time for another progress post to ROW80 and I haven’t managed to make any progress on my WIP. In my defence, maybe working flat out on the Amazon submission produced a mini burnout. I have added a goal … Continue reading →