Geralds Writing Blog

I'm feeling fairly righteous this evening. I'm sitting on over 3,000 words of edited first draft. This was a novella I wrote a couple of years ago which has been sitting on my hard disk looking for a market. It seems the Kindle could open up as a market for novellas, where the traditional pricing constraints of tree books don't apply. It's features my series character as police detective, investigating a murder on the British coast. As written, it came out at about 25,000 words. So far, I've stuck pretty much to the original pacing, but when it's rewritten, I'll look at how it reads to see if it needs more or less, or should stay the same.

After spending some time on the production and marketing side of my writing, and enjoying a fairly quiet Christmas with family, it's time to write again. In the Brave New World of Kindle (BNWoK), the traditional restrictions on size of novel have all but disappeared. Micro fiction, short stories, novelettes, novellas, novels and epics can all be marketed and sold in the new electronic reading era. So I have some 'things' I wrote a couple of years ago. In truth, they were two halves to my National Novel Writing Month submission, which both ended up at around 25,000 words. As such, finding a 'home' for them was almost impossible without changing them either up into full length novels (somewhere around 70,000 words), or down into long, short stories (say, around 10,000 - 15,000 words). Either would have meant an almost complete rewrite, but the stories themselves wouldn't have lent themselves to being anything other than what they were - 25,000 word stories. ...

I've got my second #SampleSunday piece up. It's taken from my second collection of short and flash fiction,  Bleak Midwinter Tales 2 Go to the  #SampleSunday  page on my Wordpress Blog. I hope you like it. Next time, I'll be posting one of my pieces of short fiction which I thought unsuitable to go into the collection. Happy #SampleSunday.

And I still don't really like Blogger. I don't know why. Here's my Wordpress blog: http://geraldhornsby.wordpress.com/ See? Isn't it nicer? I think so, anyway.

... blogs does it take? A lot. Apparently. If only I could remember which blogs used which email addresses, I'm sure I'd have much less to worry about.