February Wrap-up

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Short month, went quickly.

I started, deleted, started again, and didn’t finish a novel this month. But I’ve solved how to finish it and now need to start over one final time. This annoying process underlined how important having the right point of view in a book really is (the POV issues were what was stalling me out in the middle, thankfully I figured that out before giving up forever).

Words written this month: approximately 72,000
Words discarded/deleted this month: about 34,000 (this number will GO AWAY next month. Seriously going to stop doing that. Seriously)
Ebook earnings: 22.75 (just slightly less than last month, yay!)

For March, I’ve got two novels to go up as e-pub. I need to get on the POD/Createspace thing and learn how to do that and get print copies out. I’m also going to start the sequel to a book while working on the SF novel (now that POV issues are solved). I’m behind on the Write one/Sub one challenge, so I’m going to try to get seven or eight stories done this month as well to catch up. And I’d like to finish one of the romance novellas. I’m debating on waiting until all eight are done to start putting them up, but we’ll see. I might wait until I have three or four, then start putting them up every couple weeks.

Meanwhile, today I’m going to be approving copy edits and generally taking it easy. Just got back from an amazing week of workshops and really need a little brain break before I start writing for the week.

5 Responses to “February Wrap-up”

  1. Jim Johnson

    “I’m debating on waiting until all eight are done to start putting them up, but we’ll see. I might wait until I have three or four, then start putting them up every couple weeks.”

    While I haven’t starting doing so, I believe in the JA Konrath comment that there’s no reason to wait to post something. If it’s ready to go, post it. Every day it sits on your hard drive is a day it’s not available to make you some earnings. 🙂

    Good luck with your goals!

  2. Thomas K. Carpenter

    I’d put them up as you get them done. No reason not to.

  3. Jeff Ambrose

    Here’s my question: Would you wait to send them out to traditional markets?

    If the answer is no, then put them up.

    As Tom said — No reason not to.

    • izanobu

      True. But I want people to be able to buy the next one immediately after finishing one if they want, so I think I might wait and release them a week or so apart once I’ve gotten them written. I’m still in the experiment phase of things, so I want to see how things work 🙂

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