As you know I’m working on the fourth book in the Paul Roberston Saga at the moment, provisionally titled An Everlasting Love. Things had been moving along quite nicely. I’d written about twenty-five thousand words and introduced a few ideas and characters that would be important to the story and then…
In my last post, I wrote about a particular book I’m reading from StoriesOnline and concentrated on its length and my feelings that it was Too Much of a Good Thing simply because it’s longer than I feel it needs to be.
Following on from yesterday’s post, I wasted a couple of hours of the weekend putting together a spreadsheet that lists the word count and reading times of various commercial books and some of the longest and most popular books on StoriesOnline – oh, and my own books.
Some say that to be a good writer, you need to be a good reader.
I’m not a great reader. I’m a decent reader, but I’m not great. I know people who read upwards of two hundred novels a year – that’s over four a week! I’m more like one every four weeks – there’s too much else demanding of my time if I’m honest, but I do enjoy reading, and I read when I can.
The title says it all really, doesn’t it? I did that thing where I start the year off really well, do lots of regular posts and shit, then just kind of stop for the middle part of the year before picking it up in the autumn and going “Sorry, I’ve just been really busy.”
You can now read Chapter 16: Hot Chocolate of A Wounded Heart exclusively on my Patreon. All previous chapters remain available. Or you can pre-order the eBook edition on Amazon today.
A Wounded Heart, Chapter 15: I Can’t Do This, publishes on my Patreon today. You can now read the whole of the first half of the book, exclusively, ahead of its end-of-March publication at the Rainforest Retailer.
Tomorrow sees Chapter 15 of A Wounded Heart published on my Patreon. That makes the halfway point. To whet your appetite, here’s a short excerpt from Chapter 4: Summer Romance (which you can read in its entirety on my Patreon too) Or you can pre-order the eBook on Amazon now for release at the end […]
This week I’ve been making a real effort to write at least five hundred words a day on at least one of my current draft projects.
Chapter 14 of A Wounded Heart is now available to read on my Patreon. You can also read all previous chapters