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This blog has now been up for exactly two and a half years (as of the time of writing) and just prior to the creation of this blog, I started dipping my toes into fiction. So I thought it’s high time that I do a post on my own progress as a writer since then.
What I’ve Done:
- Dipped my toes in novel writing and
- Fully outlined up to book 2 of a quintet and partially all the other books in the series
- Written up to chap 15 for book 1 out of a planned 21 chapters
- Tried my hands at short story writing through a multi-author anthology
- Co-authored one short story
- Written a solo piece- A Thread of Chance that I’m converting to a novella right now
- Creating a new novel series right now
- Outlining book 1 as I type now- round 1 almost concluded
What I’ve Learnt:
- Signed up for James Patterson’s Masterclass, a course crash on all aspects of the writing and publishing process. What I took away from this was mostly the idea of doing comprehensive outlines based on the provided sample outline from JP
- Learnt a lot about myself as a writer and a person from the epub venture
- Fine-tuned/refocused myself on novels rather than short stories
- Learnt what makes me tick versus what doesn’t as a writer and a person
What I’ve Achieved:
- I’ve made the important mind change to viewing writing as a hobby to thinking about turning it into my career. I’m still doing a FT day job at the moment and planning to make the transition slow but the mind change is the important thing
- I’ve broadened my social network and gained on board a lot of writer friends through social media
- I’ve expanded my reading horizon slightly and taken on board historical fiction as a new genre
- Last but not least I’ve made this blog which isn’t much now but can be leveraged to build an author platform for myself
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