Tag: blathering bs
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The Quick and Dirty
So where have I been and where’s that book I promised you – a year ago? Truth of the matter is, my dear dedicated reader, that it’s been a long nasty road that I’m not done traveling yet and I can confirm has been seeded liberally with landmines. The gist of it? I picked up…
Y. K. Greene
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What the Azathoth is Going On Here?
Posts have been few and far between for a while now, culminating in a long period of seeming silence. I haven’t updated anyone on what’s going on with the books or posted anything of use on the blog, facebook, twitter or tumblr. A few particularly astute readers have taken the time to track me down…
Y. K. Greene
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“Writers Write” Is That Really Too Much To Ask?
I’m in the middle of NaNoWriMo and polishing off a novel I’ve been struggling with for about two years now but something was making the rounds of my independent author feeds the other day that rubbed me such a wrong way I stopped what I was doing and took a minute to reply that turned…
Y. K. Greene
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A Vital Reminder
This last year has been a not so great time for me. I’ve spent a lot of time focusing on family (often at the expense of my writing) while my family minimizes my written work and suggests with full candor that I would be better off doing literally anything else. I might be a stone…
Y. K. Greene
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Scrivener Series: Export Draft
This is the sixth installment in my Scrivener Series, which showcases how I use Scrivener write entire novel series. Be sure to check out my writing process post for quick links to the currently published posts and a preview of what I’m going to cover next. In a perfect world (but unfortunately not the current…
Y. K. Greene
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Happy New Year!
It’s 2015 already so I suppose you guys deserve an update. Laptop has been repaired, my work on “Tasting Ash” has finally resumed (slowly with many false starts and general malaise) and I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to release the novel sometime this year. My main workhorse computer is still down for the current…
Y. K. Greene
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Scrivener Series: Re-outline, Reorder, Rewrite
This is the fifth installment in my Scrivener Series, which showcases how I use Scrivener write entire novel series. Be sure to check out my writing process post for quick links to the currently published posts and a preview of what I’m going to cover next. By now I’ve been writing up a storm in…
Y. K. Greene
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Scrivener Series: Final Outline
This is the fifth installment in my Scrivener Series, which showcases how I use Scrivener to write help me write entire novel series. Be sure to check out the previous installments (Bible, Wallowing) or check out my writing process post for a preview of what I’m going to cover next. At this point I’ve got…
Y. K. Greene
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Amazon, Hachette and Smashwords
So – I’m re-reconsidering Smashwords, for several reasons. First and foremost, though the meat grinder is still their prefered method of upload for new titles and though it still sucks mightly, there is now the option to upload checked epub files instead. I’ve yet to figure out how to create an epub that they’ll accept…
Y. K. Greene
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Scrivener Series: Write The Damn Thing
This is the fourth installment in my Scrivener Series, which showcases how I use Scrivener to write help me write entire novel series. Be sure to check out the previous installments (Bible, Wallowing, Timelines & Outlines) or check out my writing process post for a preview of what I’m going to cover next. Alright, now…
Y. K. Greene