The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 45 Results Distractions - learning to guard my writing time. A single book written this week, learned my lessons? Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 0 (Own Site) – paid – 27799 (D2D, Amazon), 0 (Medium) Published Words Non-Fiction: – free –3184 – paid – 0 (Medium) Subscribers: New Instafreebie/PW:202 New Others: … [Read more...]
The Acid Test of Fiction Writing
For all I've researched and tested in the previous five years about writing and publishing, one challenge yet remained:
Can this be put to use, starting from scratch as a new author, and actually build an audience while writing profitable fiction?
These articles show the journey. Join me. Should be fun.
Fiction Writing: How to Build a Profit-Making NaNoWriMo Habit
Fiction Writing: How to Build a Profit-Making NaNoWriMo Habit Just looked up my last two months of fiction writing production and found out I'd produced at National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) writing volume for the two prior months. Meaning: I'd just developed a habit of writing roughly 12.5K words per week for 60 days, where a habit takes from 28-40 days on average to … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 44 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 44 Results NaNoWriMo started. Into sheer writing mode. Kickstarter training starts this week... Metrics Published Words Fiction: – written – 16244 – free – 5115 (Own Site) – paid – 0 (D2D, Amazon), 0 (Medium) Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 3896 – paid – 0 (Medium) Subscribers: Mailerlite: 68 … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 43 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 43 Results Yet another serial completed. Just wanted to get it done before NaNoWriMo starts in the middle of this week - mixed results… Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 0 (Own Site) – paid – 32351 (D2D, Amazon), 0 (Medium) Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 1653 – paid – 0 (Medium) Subscribers: Mailerlite: 48 … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 42 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 42 Results Just finished another novella - four-parter with serious cliffhangers. Means five original books published this week (with its anthology) … Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 0 (Own Site) – paid – 48152 (D2D, Amazon), 0 (Medium) Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 2305 – paid – 0 … [Read more...]
Prolific Works’ Advice for Fiction Writing Emails
Prolific Works' Advice for Fiction Writing Emails A recent email I got from Prolific Works (formerly Instafreebie) was just too good to simply leave in some form that temporary. This is their list of how to get started with giveaways - which then build your list, so you can send them emails. (Oops - got a bit enthused in the title for this article.) So here is it … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 41 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 41 Results Bridged over to a novella - by writing a three-parter with massive cliff-hangers in between... Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 0 (Own Site) – paid – 31716 (D2D, Amazon), 13833 (Medium) Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 1452 – paid – 0 (Medium) Subscribers: Mailerlite: 0 … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 40 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 40 Results Most books published in a single week. New ways to get fiction out there - and ways to tell people about it. You can, too... Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 8438 (Own Site) – paid – 58852 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 27740 – paid – 1704 (Medium) Subscribers: Mailerlite: 0 … [Read more...]
Cracking 6-Figure Book Sales – Mid-list Publishing
Cracking 6-Figure Book Sales by Mid-list Publishing (and a Pulp Fiction Mindset) ref: Mike Shreeve's post from 2014 http://mikeshreeve.com/sell-978-fiction-ebooks-per-day-complete-guide/ Shreeve's stated overall goal is to pass on data so struggling writers and change their mindset, and sell enough books to live full-time from your writing. In fiction, there is no … [Read more...]
