2020 is here
And this place could do with a dusting off and re-invigoration. Some thoughts on that here: https://www.mostlylies.com/latest/ — no promises. I’m not much of a New Years resolution person 🙂
The strange slippage of time
I looked over at The Self Pub Hub, only to realize it’s almost been a year since I updated it. What?! It caught me off guard, clearly. My fiction efforts slowed down in September 2018 as I prepared for bigger life shifts and forays into the publishing side of things… […]
Hey, I should make a blog post!
Yes indeed. My energy has shifted. My resolve to write and record the word count every day was born on January 1, 2018 and died the week of September 17, 2018. Not a bad run… but I was at the point where the process was exhausting me more than energizing […]
Tracking daily earnings average
Back when I started this project, I’d not sold anything, so we were at $0.00/day. Then I checked in a few months later, after a spattering of friends and family sales to clock in at $0.08/day. Based on eBook royalties, a writer’s function with Wattpad, and estimated hard copy revenues, […]
Happy belated birthday, MostlyLies!
The idea (not necessarily the site), turned one on July 31st, 2018. On that day, I took stock of some of my writing stats with a plan to revisit them and explore the delta one year later. I missed the mark on doing that on exactly July 31, but having […]
Happy birthday, Hunting Midnight!
A year ago today, two cheeky characters were transplanted from an unfinished tale and set off on a mission to start a restaurant in a small town. Then there were ghosts. About 150,000 words later, with three episodes published on Amazon, I’m in the homestretch of finishing off the first […]
Final Girl Press
Another near blogless month blasted by, dang! Nevertheless, cool things abound. First and foremost, a new project. Well, sort of new. I forget if I alluded to the horror publishing company I was looking into fostering… if not, well, it has a name and a small initial crew of excited […]
No blog in May?
Preposterous! I am still chiseling away at the dream, albeit the regular blogging habit has fallen off. Important habits, however, have not! They include: Writing every day Velocity had slowed, and I’ve been counting things like Instagram related copy towards the count on the slowest days, but I’ve been making […]
On the cusp
For the entirety of the year thus far, my total word count has tracked above the daily goal. Today I am still “in the black,” but by less than a day’s breadth. This is a superficial observation, because my only true goal is to write at least once every day… […]
Writing from a bar this evening
It’s been awhile since I’ve written in public, and even longer since at a bustling bar! While there is loudness and joviality all around, it’s still possible to lose oneself in the story, which I find endlessly interesting. The April slowdown continues, but it’s not been crushing or anything like […]