Page 130

Onto page 130 now. Less than 60 to go. Some quick math says that I’m 2/3 through this edit. That’s good news for the end of the edit.

I’m beginning to question how much of the plot makes sense. How much will it translate to the reader? I think I need to go back to the beginning and put some more into the front end so the decisions the characters make towards the end read right.

It is interesting to note how differently the characters behave in these later edits than they did when the first ideas were being put together. Now there is a much different dynamic between the two main characters.

Overall I’m still happy with the work, I’m just struggling to make everything flow for the reader as it flows for me. And this is where I could really use a professional

More about myspace.com

I wrote in the previous post about myspace.com. You may be slightly confused reading the rest of this post, if you have not read the Myspace post.

While adding friends to my myspace account I have come across many authors, some, it seems, trying to do just what I am attempting. Clearly, nothing I am doing is original, and thus not as likely to succeed. If I was in the first group of people to use myspace as a marketing tool, I may have more success. But now there is so much there to overwhelm a person.

OR, if I was an established person, I could come onto myspace and promote myself with pretty good success. If Stephen King wrote his newest book and choose to promote it exclusively on myspace, he would undoubatly sell a large number of books.

The site is a big enough venue that word can spread quickly. But, if you’re like me, still hoping one day to rise up enough to be included in the masses of the also-rans, why would anyone talk about me or my project? My best hope is to enlist my myspace friends who know me in real life to distribute information to their friends - who would ideally be interested and send it on to their friends.

My other friends on myspace don’t know me in real life and would certainly be less compelled to read what I have to offer. I assume this because I do the same thing. I have quite a few author friends who send me notices of new projects. I’d like to check them out, but I rarely do (for a number of reasons). So how am I to convince near strangers to even take a look at a sample of the book? I’m not sure yet, but hope to have it figured out when this book starts to near a realized published state.

Over 100

I had a full weekend with no pressing obligations. So late Sunday evening I do some editing. Not very amazing progress, but I’m over 100 pages with about 80 to go. This will still need an on-screen edit with a few sections printed to edit. A few months ago I didn’t want to do that, but now I feel I should. It will create a better product.

There seems to be little chance that this will be any sort of a success. So far this exercise (the documentary blog) has created nothing worthy of a comment. I’m hoping that I can create enough of a buzz to get people interested in the book - but I know that’s going to be hard because there’s thousands of other people just like me trying to do the same thing (but this is probably a whole other topic).

But I’m not giving up - at the least I’ll be able to say I wrote a book that is worthy of being paid for. If nothing else it kills time. And if that isn’t a ringing endorsement of the poduct, I don’t know what is!