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Piano exam last Monday week 14 hours practice in 4 days was a bit draining. Have to finish draft of one short story and start another.

Lots of different writing habits some seem to write everyday, 6 hour sessions etc. I probably haven't done much since Xmas.

Interviewed on a writing blog being published next week. 

It seems the easy bit is writing, to get any exposure seems to be a massive marketing exercise involving Twitter,blogs,Kindle forums and another one Goodreads.

How do people find the time to do all this?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Render-Unto-Caesar-ebook/dp/B006TZ0H30/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1328971901&sr=1-2

Running a free promotion for 2 days for short story Render Unto Caesar, 2nd prize winner in Writers Village competition.

Any reviews or Likes would be appreciated

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Been trying to formulate a plan for the past few weeks so opening chapters of a novel completed by Mid Nov.

Now I've got these short stories,2nd in one competition shortlisted in another. So because one is 'published' my understanding is that conventional publishers  are reluctant to touch them. Sending to conventional publishers probably means waiting for 3 months or more to be told they've rejected your pieces.

So I'm now looking at e publishing on Amazon or Smashwords, relatively quick & easy the problem seems to be making sure a) work is formatted correctly for electronic versions b) having a good cover c)putting effort in to marketing & promotion. There are people who will do a & b for a reasonable fee.

The way I see it is I think e readers will become more popular with increased sales of i phones,i pads & kindles also compare the way music is bought nowadays compared to years ago. 

Going to take Jameela's advice and write 3 or 4 chapters of the novel by end of October and tidy up 2 of my short stories.

Joined the novel writers forum so got a lot of reading to catch up on some have got 10 chapters.

http://www.outburstmagazine.com/images/outburst_Issue6.pdf

Sent off the poetry trilogy from A215 last year and am staggered (not false modesty I can assure you) that they actually published this one as it was more of an exercise if anyone remembers the 'Delia Smith' cookbook/recipe advice.

Anyhow it hasn't exactly got Thomas Hardy's fingerprints all over it so I'm not sure if I'm more shocked at being published or the fact that this poem was successful.

My biog is also way off the mark I'm not unemployed,don't watch TV and have a passing interest in roses,then again this could become my alter ego.

In conclusion I suppose we must take and be grateful for any success that comes our way.

But it proves there is hope for us all and as somebody else put it I won't be ungluing the poetry pages of A363 just yet.

Didn't really achieve much while away but home today so there's the week end to make that impact.

The real problem I now have on getting TMA 6 back is that the tutor's feedback is the polar opposite of forum comments.