I started off using Pages, but I have now switched to Scrivener, which I highly recommend. It was clearly designed with writers in mind, and makes it simple to create finished books in a variety of formats.
Quick Pilot X Update
So things are progressing well and the best thing of all is we have an official publication date!
Pilot X is set to come out March 14, 2017.
Your early support and patience will definitely be rewarded.
I met with the fine folks at Girl Friday Productions last week to talk over the plan and we’re in the process of settling on cover art. Very excited. The visual style will be a big departure from my video, I promise, Heh.
THE EDIT!
Got the first edit back from Clete with some excellent suggestions. Very excited that one of the suggestions was not "hmm, you should start over." So that’s positive!
Actually the book is in better shape than I expected with some areas that need clarification and mostly concentrating on keeping it friendly to new readers. So I’m 100% confident this is going to be a better book than it was before. I sent my first pass back to Clete yesterday.
RANDOM BOOK FACT
If you were at a party on Alenda you might find yourself eating a creamed farragut pastry and a bottle of Kreistner’s Malt .
Thanks again for your belief in and support for this book! I wish it was March already.
Tom
Team Pirates!!
Hope your week is going well! Quick update: I’m now incorporating edits from Beta Reader Tom, so things are right on track!
I came across this list while surfing during my kid’s afternoon nap break. Neil Gaiman is one of my favorite writers, and I thought this was very interesting and helpful. Inspiring, even.
I hope it gives you all the feels:
8 Rules of Writing from Neil Gaiman
1. Write.
2. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
3. Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
4. Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like the kind of thing that this is.
5. Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
6. Fix it. Remember that, sooner or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.
7. Laugh at your own jokes.
8. The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
And now for some hard science:
-Erin
