Spent September dealing with the tapering off of migraines, and beginning the work of sorting through what needs to be done. I’ve made it through most of the neglected bits and pieces, just a couple more to deal with in October. But mostly caught up. Not sure how to get ahead to avoid this next year, and since this is the second year with daily migraines all summer long, I’m assuming at this point that next year will be the same.
So we have decided to scrap the existing books and start over from scratch. Mostly going to use the same story line but with a two person romance perspective with a mystery fantasy theme, instead of a fantasy mystery from one characters perspective, which was really not working for us.
I have outlined a rough plan to write all the new scenes for the first book in the series and to publish a Chapter/Sequence a week. The plan is to write a scene a day, 4 scenes in a sequence, then edit it. Then publish the edit version as a “serial” story on my website, and then record an audio of the story and post it on YouTube. We are struggling with perfectionism, and need to push past it, and apparently all the advice in the world from therapists and psychiatrist is the 80/20 rule, and the set a deadline and publish it anyway. So that’s what we are gonna do.
There are 16 Sequences so at the end of 16 weeks we should have a finished book. At the end of the project, I’ll edit it one more time, and then publish the book as a paperback. I’m probably going to use one of the aggregators that will publish the book with all the bookstores, rather than fighting with all the stores individually. I’d rather spend time writing more stories than fighting with every stores back-end. I’ll evaluate it when I get there, but that’s the plan at the moment. I still have no idea what to do about covers, the things we have on the website now are just mock ups made in Canva, and while Canva licenses the art because we had a pro account when we signed up, I know some book platforms like Amazon do not honor those licenses (plenty of indie author horror stories on YouTube), so we have to make something from scratch, so we wholly own the license for the cover art. All of that is a decision for future us, not today us.
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See ya next month for the next update.