Yesterday, I re-started writing Darkness by throwing out 9/10 of it and starting over. I think the new beginning is much better and flows smoother. I saved some from the 'middle' just to see if it'll still fit. It probably will, but will also probably be re-written, too. Darkness is also the starting point for my zombie story too. A few paragraphs in the second section will be the opening part of the zombie story. I think it's a neat idea that the same scene starts two different horror genre stories. Now, I just have to write them, If I finish Darkness before I publish my still untitled compilation book, I think it'll be included and will also be the title of the compilation (though I still want something to do with Mary's Painting to be the book cover picture (darkness lays a role in it and most of the other stories as they're all related to dark topics). If the book gets above 20,000 words, the book will be $2.99. If it's less but still more than 15,000 I'll price it at $1.99, any less will be $0.99. Those seem to be the accepted guidelines from what I can tell for self-publishing electronically. I also think I need to edit Cat's Eye View and Un-Separation to refine them before publishing them in it. They're still rough around the edges, and I'd hate to put out something I felt was not finished. My goal is to get it published some time next calendar year.
Yesterday, I also discovered that I was grandfathered in to 750words.com with a free membership. I had stopped using it because I joined less than a week after what was supposed to be the cutoff without knowing there was going to be a cutoff. Before my 30 day trial was to be over, I stopped using it because I didn't think I could afford it (though it doesn't cost much of anything). On a whim after Candice asked if the words I was typing for Darkness last night were for my "500 words", I went back to the website and found out that they'd moved the date to a week or so after I had joined. So, I'll try using the site again to keep my writing momentum going.
I added a Goodreads widget to the side of my blog, but from what I can tell, I have to update the code myself to get the books in it to change. I marked a couple more books as finished today and it still showed the old list until I copied and pasted the new code in. If anyone knows how to modify it to be dynamically updated, let me know!
We're all ready for Christmas (though we still haven't mailed out stuff to my family back east - we'll do that tomorrow most likely). The only shopping we still have left to do is to buy a few more groceries for the Christmas meal, and some boxes for the aforementioned stuff that needs shipped.
That's about all for this blog entry. Thanks for reading.
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