I have been a long time lurker here on the Fastlane forums. I read the book over a year ago and have been working on applying it. I am out of any full time contract and employment, but only as far as freelancing so far (many different skill areas).
I didn't want to post anything until I had used the time to take some action. I think I'm there now. I'm 53k words into a novel and 9k words into the first of a series. I'm writing on average 2k words/day at the moment, and I'm truly loving it!
My English teacher told me I'd never be able to string a sentence together. I think feedback like that holds kids back, and I believed him until I was in my thirties. I then landed a gig writing a sports column for a well known sports betting business here in the UK. They gave me the job based on a little blog I had at the time - I had written only two posts! That opened my eyes to the power of getting something, anything, out there and seeing what works.
So here I am, on the last few chapters of my first novel (romantic thriller). I know the next steps are: cover, editing, blurb and release, and I have no idea how I'm going to do that yet. Shortly afterwards I'm releasing a book for teenagers, which I will plan to follow up with five more in the same series (the story of which I bounced off of my son as we travelled on a couple of long journeys).
Okay, enough of me going on. This thread is designed to keep me on target with my word count which I'll update weekly. Hopefully watching me figure this stuff out will help others who are just starting out.
I didn't want to post anything until I had used the time to take some action. I think I'm there now. I'm 53k words into a novel and 9k words into the first of a series. I'm writing on average 2k words/day at the moment, and I'm truly loving it!
My English teacher told me I'd never be able to string a sentence together. I think feedback like that holds kids back, and I believed him until I was in my thirties. I then landed a gig writing a sports column for a well known sports betting business here in the UK. They gave me the job based on a little blog I had at the time - I had written only two posts! That opened my eyes to the power of getting something, anything, out there and seeing what works.
So here I am, on the last few chapters of my first novel (romantic thriller). I know the next steps are: cover, editing, blurb and release, and I have no idea how I'm going to do that yet. Shortly afterwards I'm releasing a book for teenagers, which I will plan to follow up with five more in the same series (the story of which I bounced off of my son as we travelled on a couple of long journeys).
Okay, enough of me going on. This thread is designed to keep me on target with my word count which I'll update weekly. Hopefully watching me figure this stuff out will help others who are just starting out.
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