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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?

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The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 46 Results

November 18, 2018 by Robert C. Worstell Leave a Comment

The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 46 Results

The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 46 Results Book writing solved. Let your books write themselves. Take a day, write a book. Get 'r done. Proof, publish, repeat. Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 0 (Own Site) – paid – 25272 (D2D, Amazon), 0 (Medium) Published Words Non-Fiction: – free –1674 – paid – 0 (Medium) Subscribers: New Instafreebie/PW:327 New Others: 0 Overall Total: 3572 Book sales this week: Amazon – 1, Draft2Digital – 1, Gumroad – 2 = Total Week’s Fiction Sales – 4 Books (pre-)published this week: The Moon Cleaner https://calm.li/MoonCleaner Moon Shadow https://calm.li/MoonShadow Moon Queen https://calm.li/MoonQueen Aggregate Production: Total fiction books published this year: 116 Total short stories published as individual … [Read more...]

The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 45 Results

November 11, 2018 by Robert C. Worstell Leave a Comment

The Great Fiction Writing Challenge - Week 45 Results

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: 0 Overall Total: 3461 (-108) Book sales this week: Amazon – 2, Draft2Digital – 0, Gumroad – 2 = Total Week’s Fiction Sales – 4 Books (pre-)published this week: Totem https://calm.li/totem Moon Bride https://calm.li/MoonBride Blood Moon https://calm.li/BloodMoon Aggregate Production: Total fiction books published this year: 113 Total short stories published as individual ebooks: 91 Total … [Read more...]

Fiction Writing: How to Build a Profit-Making NaNoWriMo Habit

November 4, 2018 by Robert C. Worstell Leave a Comment

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 instill. Why listen to me? Skip down to the bottom and see if you can write and publish that much in a year, let alone 10 months. Yes, I've gotten some sales, too. The rub? Each of those books cost me nothing to produce. So all the sales I get are all pure profit. How did I do this? Set Goals - my model is to write, proof, and then publish short stories in that week. So I was intending to write at least two … [Read more...]

The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 44 Results

November 4, 2018 by Robert C. Worstell Leave a Comment

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 (non-IF/ProlificWorks), Instafreebie/PW:507 New Total: 3569 Book sales this week: Amazon – 8, Draft2Digital – 3, Gumroad – 2 = Total Week’s Fiction Sales – 13 Books (pre-)published this week: 0 Books Ready to Publish Totem Moon Bride Aggregate Production: Total fiction books published this year: 110 Total short stories published as individual ebooks: 88 (+2) Total anthologies published: 21 (plus two 200+ page … [Read more...]

The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 43 Results

October 29, 2018 by Robert C. Worstell Leave a Comment

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 (non-IF/ProlificWorks), Instafreebie/PW:156 New Total: 3511 Book sales this week: Amazon – 1, Draft2Digital – 1, Gumroad – 2 = Total Week’s Fiction Sales – 4 Books (pre-)published this week: Witch Coven Harvest https://calm.li/WitchCovenHarvest Wish Me Luck, Witch Me Love https://calm.li/WitchMeLove Aggregate Production: Total fiction books published this year: 110 Total short stories published as … [Read more...]

The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 42 Results

October 22, 2018 by Robert C. Worstell Leave a Comment

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 (Medium) Subscribers: Mailerlite: 4 (non-IF/ProlificWorks), Instafreebie/PW:137 (from 103, 201, 206, 242, 363 and 848) New Total: 3805 (earlier: 3740, 3877, 3985, 4073, 4046, 4247, 4193) (Increase is from starting up giveaways again - my usual.) (I'm no longer reporting Mailchimp as I can't get weekly data from them. New subscribers will show up in the Mailerlite metrics as I import them.) Book sales this week: Amazon – 15, … [Read more...]

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