Posting at authonomy

Well, I've posted the first six chapters of "Red" on authonomy.com. It's a Harper Collins sponsored web site (if you aren't familiar with it yet) where you can post your completed novel manuscript and folks can read it. Then, they can support your manuscript and the one with the most votes gets published.

I'm hoping to get some feedback on "Red" - I have made changes as suggested by the judges of Amazon's novel contest, but I need to know if I'm making it better - or worse. We'll also see how many supporterss it gets. To be honest, I think I'll be happy if it just gets some.

I took half a day off from work today so I could try to get some writing stuff done. I need to learn more about marketing books, since most publishers expect you to have a plan, or at least an idea, of what you will need to do to promote your book.

Did nothing on Red. Worked some on a contemporary young adult fiction piece about reincarnation, and a bit on a victorian story about a vampire and the young man who has to hunt him.

I even looked at book 2 of my Dragons trilogy.

I definitely have writing ADHD. I wonder if there is a diagnosis for that? Will my medical insurance cover it? Probably not.

I don't think I'm ready to revise Dragons yet. I do think it will need a lot of work when I get to it though. I couldn't even read through the first chapter. Still too fresh in my head.

Oh, and I started on a short story, called "The Tedinator" that I am writing in honor of my grandfather, who passed away in April. I wrote a poem in honor of my grandmother when she passed away; that was before my daughter was born. I was trying to write a poem for my grandfather, too. But it wasn't working for me. So. the story evolved. An old motorcycle in need of restoration is the center of it. May post it here when I am finally happy with it.

Maybe I should rename my blog to "In pursuit of finishing a piece of writing..."

Well, it's been awhile. But I have been busy. I have gotten all the way through "Red" and added and deleted stuff, hopefully, making it better. I concentrated on dialogue, adding where I could and taking out description and exposition.

I'm not sure if it worked.

So now, I am going through it again, reading the dialogue out loud, to make sure it sounds like folks speaking and not an essay. I still have work to do.