At stupid o’clock last night, I thought I should maybe upload a single image to my amazon pages that I’ve been meaning to do for ages. As with all things online these days, it didn’t quite end there - and neither is it finished. I published The Language of Thieves and Vagabonds for the kindle and then discovered that I could also publish this blog to the kindle as well. I’m not entirely sure why people would subscribe to blogs on the kindle when they could get them for free online, but mine is not to question why, they obviously do, so this is available also. Neat.
I then got heavily involved in tidying up my author page and my members profile. Two different things don’t you know! No, I didn’t either but I do now and worth doing as well from what I can gather from long time members who could be bothered posting about it.
I never did upload the image I meant to. I’ll do that in a moment but trawling about, I’ve found that my wish list, astore and a host of other things on there can also be highly visible - and that filters out to both the .co.uk and the .com stores.
…and then I dipped a toe into formatting everything so that it could also be read on all the other e-reading devices, but that can wait. About 15 years ago, I’m sure Adobe swore blind that Acrobat was going to be the answer to all our questions.
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I also found a great scriptwriting competition that I made some notes about. One thing is for sure, we’re gonna need a bigger whiteboard. I was actually asked for some advice about entering competitions the other day. It’s not something I do a lot of anymore but win or not, they are useful for a whole host of things: getting something finished by somebody else’s deadline for one. Having another finished piece of work in the bag for another.
Also worth looking at if you’re busting your face in the writing game is James Moran’s recent post about dealing with rejection. I guess it could also apply to any kind of rejection but it’s a great post that pretty much tells it like it is. God knows, if there’s one thing you need to master more than your actual craft, it’s how to handle the knocks…
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Tired now.
Bed is for sleepy people.
Back to work…