The Daring Novelist

Daring to live life as a full time writer, with or without success.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

ROW80 Update - Rearranged Goals

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A Round of Words in 80 Days round up: Sunday, Day 7 - 76 minutes. Beginning to decompress. That was the problem with the previous book, it...
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Monday, January 9, 2012

Weekend Writing - Writing as a Second Job, Part 1

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There's an old union song, sung to the tune of "Free Americay" (a Revolutionary War song that was sung to the tune of the Brit...
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Quick Note on Non-Amazon Income

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While not all of Smashwords' figures have trickled through for 2011, and Amazon requires a little digging and math.... I think I can say...
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Sunday, January 8, 2012

RWO80 Update - Writing Schedules and Productivity (upcoming)

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It is horrible when you end a "vacation" and start a writing dare utterly exhausted. I really think writing will refresh me, but ...
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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Counting Your Chickens Before They Hatch - Wiser Than You Think

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Kris Rusch just posted a great post about the short-sightedness of writers who work for cheap or free, because they can't seem to do t...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

What Triggers the Pie Fight? An ROW80 Update post

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Going back to work is not fun. I am, indeed rather tired. However, in this first leg of the dare I sat and thought about about how I was go...
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

First Quarter Goals 2012

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This year I have a couple of more general goals. In particular, I feel as though I am starting to find my groove again -- which was lost du...
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The Book Is Up

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After a LOT more trouble than I had expected prepping it all, I finally have the book up at Amazon and at Amazon US , Amazon UK , and Smashw...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

A Look Back At The Book and The Rewriting Issue

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Robert Heinlein put a loophole in his "Don't Rewrite" rule by adding the phrase "except to editorial order." This i...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

One Frazzled Christmas

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I had some great things I was going to post today (and every day of break) but I ended up rushing a friend to the ER, and I just got home. ...
Friday, December 23, 2011

ROW80 Finale - And a New Book Published!

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There! The end of the last day of the last round of A Round Of Words In Eighty Days for 2011. I finished and edited a novel, The Man Who Did...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

ROW80 Update - two days to go!

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I stopped keeping track of time for this last leg of the challenge. I long beat my goals, and I'm tired. (The end of the semester is to...
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Monday, December 19, 2011

Deadmen Don't Eat Fruitcake - a Holiday Noir Story

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Here is a short Noir story for the holidays. Like all Noir, it's a little dark, (though it's in the lighter end of the Noir spectru...
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Sunday, December 18, 2011

ROW80 Update - home stretch!

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Golly, this thing ends this week, on Thursday. Thursday Day 73 - 81 Minutes. I am definitely winding down. While I am doing work, my reco...
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Update On The Pricing Experiment

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Well.... The 99 cent price experiment didn't do much. Sales had been in a slump, and they returned to their normal range... which may ...
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The Daring Novelist is the secret identity of mystery and adventure author Camille LaGuire. Camille's work has appeared in publications such as Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine; Handheld Crime; Cricket, the Magazine For Children and Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine. Stories have been collected into anthologies, reprinted overseas, and in educational materials. She's worked as a horse wrangler, fry cook, teacher, tech, editor, script analyst and even had play produced.
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