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2017 Week 2 Accountability

This morning I woke up to frost.

Anyway, here’s the official week 2 accountability post!

WRITING

The Goal: Write Every Day. Hit 2 million words for the year. Write a book a week.

Actual: I wrote 4 out of 7 days. Week Total: 14,421. Daily Average: 2,060. Words per Hour: 2,653. Books Written This Week: 1. O.ne rough draft completed.

January Totals: 31,085 words; Daily Average: 2,391; Words Per Hour: 2,646; Books Written: 3; Books Published: 0

I am still well below averaging high enough for 2 million words for the year, but fortunately, just a little behind for hitting one million. I am still cautiously optimistic for both. As far as writing every day? On those three days, I wasn’t home. As soon as I got off work with the post office, I left again. I did manage to finish something, though.

Spilling Blood episode 14 is complete. I hope to have episode 13 revised this week, and hopefully published by the weekend.

The biggest distractions to writing this week were working for the post office and grinding xp for my Rock Band Crew in the mornings before going to work. I know, I know. I’m playing a game. 😛

I am going to continue and put off adding any other goals until my writing is more stable. This remains the focus.

  • This week I will write something new, I haven’t decided yet.
  • I will complete editing on Spilling Blood 13, get it to my proofreading crew, and get it published.
  • I will up my minimal writing from a minimum of 30 minutes a day to a full hour.

MUSIC

I didn’t get a chance to even touch my guitar last week. I think I will launch my music goal in February. Why because there’s a site called fawm.org. That’s February Album Writing Month. Hell, why not?

OTHER

As far as putting off my other goals, I think I will add back in one. Social Media, and specifically, Instagram. I will post at least one photo a day this week, and more as I can. Please follow me. 🙂

 

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2017 Week 1 Accountability

The first week of 2017 is over, and time for Week 1 Accountability.

Writing

The Goal: Write Every Day. Hit 2 million words for the year. Write a book a week.

Actual: I wrote 6 out of 7 days. Week Total: 16,664. Daily Average: 2,381. Words per Hour: 2,641. Books Written: 2. Two rough drafts completed.

So this word count won’t get me to a million words, and not even close to 2 million. I have to really pick up the pace. I had two free days to write, where I wrote over 11k combined. Then our snowstorm hit, and I’ve been called in every day to help with the Post Office. I tried to make myself write for 30 minutes every day, even when exhausted (we got *a lot* of snow). By Friday, my willpower was shot, and Saturday, I no longer had a plan (two first drafts completed, so either needed to edit or start something new).

The books completed were Spilling Blood episode 13 and a pen name novel.

And distractions besides the Post Office? I was offered a position in a Top 10 Rock Band 4 Rivals Crew. How could I say no? 😀 And then Netflix – they have all of Season 10 of Hell on Wheels. *Sigh*

Other: I did not take the move into poetry. I may start this goal later, but it’s going to take a back seat to my prose.

Music

I put off starting this goal due to time constraints. it is a secondary goal to writing.

Other

I didn’t even bother with these goals, as I was barely participating in goal #1.

The weather doesn’t look to be letting up much this week, so I don’t know what’s going to happen. My focus this week will be to write Spilling Blood 14 and get my previous two projects edited. That might be a full week, depending on the weather.

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Halloween Vampire Horror Reading Sale

spillingbloodfreeadHalloween is getting closer! Yay! How about a quick promotion?

Spilling Blood, Episode 1 is free today through October 29th. You can grab it on Amazon for your kindle ereader by clicking here.

Also, you can also get episodes 2 through 12 for $.99 each through Halloween.

 

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A Social Media Glimpse of Yesterday

Social Media is  a constant diary of our lives. Often I find it difficult to blog about doing anything else other than writing, because I rarely find my personal adventures exciting enough, and I keep my philosophical thoughts (including politics) mostly too myself. It was suggested yesterday I even chronicle my conflicts with all of the spiders that lurk near my writing station. (My office is right next to the back door and cellar. I’m in a high-traffic spider zone). Here’s a glimpse of what my life looked like yesterday.
 
A week ago, I stepped on a roadkill squirrel while delivering mail in Jerome. I didn’t even see it. Honestly, I’m only assuming it was roadkill, because after all, how many squirrels does a person actually step on? So Facebook has become the place to share squirrel stuff.
 

 
I’ve been using Snapchat a little, mainly screwing around with their filters.

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I think this is me. 🙂

 

With this result….

 

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I’ll be at the Buhl Public Library a week from today…

And my most exciting moment of the day…
 

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Oh… and writing?

I edited 2,880 words and wrote an additional 671 words on a book I’m finishing up under a pen name.

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Am I back?!

Am I back?! I dunno. I’ve actually got time to work on my books, and first up is Spilling Blood episode 12. I had a fantastic start to this year, and then it came to an abrupt end when I started working pretty much six days a week for the Postal Service – and I’ve found it very difficult to find time for writing. My writing goals are shot, and while the year’s not a waste, it’s not the year I had in mind. In the past, it’s taken a complete one full day off to get my mind back into writing, and, well, here I am writing a quick blog post about it. 🙂

Regardless, today, hours (!!!) will be devoted toward getting Spilling Blood episode 12 finished and off to my proofreaders.

For my Spilling Blood fans, the wait will have been worth it. This episode is going to be about twice as long as any episodes from Seasons 1 and 2, and lots of vampire and werewolf action/horror. You’ll hear more about it as it gets closer to launch, but I’m going to set a goal of having this Season (and series?) wrapped up before Halloween ’16.

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Apocalypse Witch Trilogy – Available Now!

It’s here! Grab the Apocalypse Witch Trilogy in One. Complete. Book!

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What do you do when pirates kidnap you for a ransom and a mad scientist injects you with a powerful and inevitably fatal concoction of aether?

You get revenge. 
Matilda Katrine Myra is no one special, but her pirate abductors don’t know that. When they boldly kidnap her from an airship and sweep her away into the deadly wasteland of mutants and poisonous radiation, her life becomes a day to day battle to evade death.

And she’s much closer to death than ever. A mad scientist has injected her with toxic condensed aether, the air of the gods, and now she’ll need frequent doses just to survive each day. With a dwindling supply, she’ll have to battle mutants, mad scientists, pirates, and the spirits of the dead.

The tool of her fate, a gauntlet feeding the condensed aether into her veins, is also a potent weapon. It can focus the aether into a death ray. She can also see the dead, women who suffered the fate Matilda is fighting to avoid.

Along with a wasteland traveler and his clockwork dragon as her only allies, and despite the powers gifted to her by the aether, the one thing she doesn’t have is time.

With passion and intrigue, adventure and swashbuckling in an apocalyptic world, Apocalypse Witch is a dystopian steampunk adventure of non-stop excitement. This novel collects the three books of the Apocalypse Witch Trilogy, Apocalypse Witch, Memento Mori, and Shadow Falls.

Jump on over to Amazon and grab your digital copy! The paperback will be out in a few weeks.

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Cover Reveal for The Apocalypse Witch Trilogy

Is it time?! I think it is! Check out this beautiful Apocalypse Witch cover, designed by the ever-so-talented and extraordinary cover artist Jennifer Pack at Black Cat Studios Design and Photography.

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Jennifer does such an incredible job bringing my desired imagery to fruition. This will also be the cover of the paperback, and again, this will include the Apocalypse Witch Trilogy.

When can you get this ebook in your eager kindle reader app? I’m so glad you asked! May 8th is the day. It’s coming up fast! The paperback will be a few weeks after that (probably).

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Shadow Falls, Apocalypse Witch Book 3 Is Here!

Yes, the third book in the Apocalypse Witch series, Shadow Falls, is now available! Through this week, you can acquire and read it digitally for $.99 through Amazon.

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What do you do when each day might be your last? You find those responsible and make them pay.

Matilda’s revenge is almost at hand, if she can just survive long enough to see it through. Her path leads to Shadow Falls, a dark city in the shadow of the Citadel, a second city on a floating island high above the other. All that stands in her way is the ever-present threat of spirit possession, a mad scientist, and a Mask – all of which have their own plans for her.

If she somehow miraculously succeeds, the cities might not –

-because an apocalypse witch always heralds doom.

Available now on Amazon! 

Again, right now it’s only $.99. If you haven’t read book 1, it is also currently free (for just a few more days), and book 2 is $.99 (again, only for a week).

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The Week of the Apocalypse Witch Begins Now!

pabloIt’s The Week of the Apocalypse Witch here on GSWright.com!!! What’s going on? I’m so glad you asked!

Tomorrow I’m releasing Book III in the Apocalypse Witch trilogy, Shadow Falls. As this ends the first story arc, I’m making it an event!

May 1st –

Today, you can grab the ebook edition of Apocalypse Witch Book 1 for free on Amazon. This giveaway is only until May 5th, so don’t delay.

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But that’s not all!!! Because you’re going to love the 1st book, you can grab Book 2, Memento Mori for just $.99! This sale will go through May 8th, so you’ve got time to read the first book.

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May 2 –

Apocalypse Witch 3, Shadow Falls will be available. As a bonus for The Week of the Apocalypse Witch, Shadow Falls will have an introductory price of $.99 until the end of this promotion! 😀

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May 4 –

On Wednesday, I’m going to reveal the cover for the Apocalypse Witch Trilogy! Yes, if you want all three books within one cover, you won’t have to wait much longer. It’s not coming out on Wednesday, this is just a sneak peak day.

May 8 –

Okay, not exactly during The Apocalypse Witch Week, but dang close, this event will end one week from today, with the release of the Apocalypse Witch Trilogy, all three books in one edition. This is the bundle for those who want it all, but only as one book.

On a side note, there will be a paperback edition of this book released sometime this month.

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Writer’s Life Update April 22, 16

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AW3 shadowfallsOkay, so I’m working on a change to these Writer’s Life updates, and this is not it. However, it’s getting me back into the habit of getting these posts daily again. But then, I also slept until after 8 am today, when I typically get up at 5 or so, so that’s not exactly a great start either. When it changes, you’ll know it. It’ll hopefully be a big deal to this site. 😀

ANYWAY! I’m patiently waiting for Apocalypse Witch 3 to come back one last time with approval, and then I should have it released this weekend. After that? I plan on teasing the 3 book set of Apocalypse Witch (the cover is amazing, if I do say so myself), and then Spilling Blood 12. That’s all happening in the next three weeks (a book a week, finally!) Also, I have a pen name novella in the editing process I intend to release this week too. So despite sharing my time elsewhere (I’m looking at you, Post Office 😉 ) I’ve got projects finally reaching completion. I haven’t touched any new short stories in a month, and probably won’t until May.

And also for today? I’ll be enjoying lunch with the winners of the Broken Things presentation and essay contest from the Magic Valley High School for their One Book One School program! If you haven’t read Broken Things, I personally think you should, becauseI wrote it and kind of like it a lot. Click on the cover to go to Amazon.

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