Finally had to get back to writing. Too tense, too much work. While I love watching movies at night, it pales against the images and feelings you experience while writing. When you help the stories come alive - and you never know how they'll end... The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 22 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 32/112 (Actual vs. Reported: 29%) StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3452 (slow decrease, and continued slow onboarding from IF.) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 7518, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 933, Else: 0 (Medium) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Books re-published with updates: Total: 32 updated, 39 to go, 111 total - … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 21 Results
Publishing takes a lot longer than editing. By far. All I really worked on - besides an interesting article I sent out to my tiny list of IF authors (says that your ads have to make over 120% in order to be profitable (and pay the increased taxes). If you want 50% of your income spendable, they have to be about 300%. Really. The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 21 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 25/103 (Actual vs. Reported: 25%) StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3471 (big drop from list "hygiene" where I overboarded over a hundred non-openers. IF has slowed down.) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 1623, Else: 0 (Medium) – paid – Book … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 20 Results
Worked on just updating fiction books - and they're all done now. 77! Last week's monster work-up was the worst. Many needed little except a better reader magnet. This week will be re-publishing the lot, and updating all copies and versions I have. Then for non-fiction... The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 20 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 35/126 (Actual vs. Reported: 27%) StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3606 (Yet again came up some... 3 weeks steady increase.) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 62400, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 1995, Else: 0 (Medium) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Books updated: Total: 77 more fiction books, both singles and … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 19 Results
An intense week of going backward to move forward - revising an old anthology to start posting it to Wattpad. Outstanding improvement by linking all these books together by content. Proves the short story writing-publishing paradigm. The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 19 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 66/199 (Actual vs. Reported: 50%) StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3597 (Yet again came up some...) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 97111, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 1374, Else: 0 (Medium) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Books updated: Total: 14 more single books, plus 1 anthology (leaving approximately 66 fiction to go and uncounted non-fiction … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 18 Results
Well, a short week, since it only really started on Thurs due to last week's publishing. Yet there were breakthroughs on how to best serve Wattpad... The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 18 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 49/198 (Actual vs. Reported: 50%) StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3546 (Again came up some...) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 11953, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 474, Else: 0 (Medium) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Books updated: Total: 31 (out of 117 individual books) Books (pre-)published: The Arrivals Books In Progress: Origin Tales: Mysti Book sales this week: Draft2Digital – 0, Gumroad – 0, … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 16 Results
The interesting parts to this week were some of the least exciting - but hum-drum for me usually means breakthroughs - and this was no exception. Still calving season, and they are all cute. We call it T&A - checking teats and rear-ends for signs they are close... The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 16 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 34/116 (Actual vs. Reported: 30%) StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3514 (Still declining, as expected.) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 2502, Else: 0 (Medium) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Books updated: 20 (yay!) Books (pre-)published: 0 Books In Progress: Origin … [Read more...]
