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February is the month of renewal. Even if things seem quiet on the surface of the world, beneath the skin it is a mad rush of potential waiting to burst forth.
This week’s links do keep in common with this theme. First is a delightful story of Brighid for Oímelg from The Druid’s Well.
Then comes the waiting. At the moment, I am in the throes of impatiently waiting for things for an assortment of reasons (ranging from time to finances — welcome to the world, heh) and find these articles to be inspiring and comforting.
The Daily~Om on Contracting and Expanding
There are a few things that I am going to have to wrangle out on a piece of paper with ink, such as the pros and cons of making a creative writing journal strictly for fiction before I set up my own WordPress.org site (I’ve been planning on leaping to my own hosted site for some time — mainly due to the nature of the Giovanni and Stornello families). I’m also wrangling with the idea of serialising some of the stories, and am wondering if posting on Friday, then Saturday, and Sunday will be too much… or if I should alternate Six Word Sunday with Serial Sunday. Then, how big should each segment of a serialised work be? Below 1k is too small and over 5k is too big… would 2500 words be a happier medium?
What do you think? Can a working witchcraft blog and a creative fiction blog work together? Should I use pages more? What would you like to see shared here?
There is so much here to respond to!
First of all, I think you should be serializing, and I think you should be capitalizing on that work via Amazon serials. I know I would definitely subscribe, and pay for it. So think about this very seriously. I would check out the serials guidelines here over on Amazon and think about it. You write so well, you should have it supporting you at least a little!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_364921022_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000828741&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-10&pf_rd_r=1EMV70TE7VV44R28FM1X&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1394483982&pf_rd_i=5044445011
I think having your witchcraft and fiction links on the same page is quite effective because you are in essence branding not only what you offer via writing, but yourself as well. I personally could see you just as successful as someone like Sarah Lawless, but certainly with the added benefit of being a very good fiction writer.
Thank you for the kind words! *Grin*
And the link. I will be looking at that today and planning to next steps. I’d like serials because they’d light a fire under me to get the rest of Gwynne’s adventures with the OGD camp written. It’s been started, but tapered off a bit over the summer and this winter. Same for the Book of Worlds.
Also, the link on Writer’s Muses came at the perfect time. Have that open and taking notes now.
I personally could see you just as successful as someone like Sarah Lawless, but certainly with the added benefit of being a very good fiction writer.
I’d love it if you go look in the mirror and read your words to me to yourself. This is our year, my dear friend and heart sister, and we’re going to be amazing.