My New Book: On Dark Paths

[Miss Italy]

Originally Posted by Stygian Underground

When writing, I find it best to set a clear word goal for each day. A modest one too, that you're able to reach in a reasonable amount of time. Mine for now is 500 words (about one page in Word) each day, but it will increase with time. I went on a bit of a hiatus while I was editing my 2nd book...it was difficult and I sort of lost the feel for writing for awhile.

Now though the second book is out and I'm working on my third

500 words a day? That's great!! I would never be able to concentrate enough to do that!! How long does it take you to write that?? I'm still writing my short stories at a slow pace .. I think I mihgt make an ebook too. How do you purchase kindle?

[Stygian Underground]

It usually doesn't take me very long to write...sometimes as short as twenty minutes, sometimes upwards of an hour. It just depends on how I'm feeling that day and how easy the words are coming, haha.

Ebooks are a great way to get your books out there! Just make sure you follow the formatting guidelines - they have help pages and forums. Here is the help page if you want to give it a look.

As for how do you purchase Kindle...I'm not sure what you mean. It's free to upload a story, and you set the price and the royalties you receive from your work. As for the Kindle itself, it should be available at most department stores, and of course on Amazon.com.

If you have a smartphone, you can download the Kindle app for free on it. Same for Ipad or Iphone as well. Also, you can download Kindle for PC for free as well.

[Miss Italy]

20mins .. fantastic effort! And you said that you're up to your third novel? How many people have purchased your first two pieces of work?

I think and e-book is definitely the way to go .. I am so stuck on my novels though. It is probably my worst old fashioned habit

[Stygian Underground]

Yup! Working on my third book...going to be a collection of four or five novellas. As for purchases of the first two...not too many so far. From what I've seen from fellow indies, I'm doing really well for basically being an unknown, but there is still a long ways to go, haha.

Yeah I can't finish a novel. That's why I write short stories/novellas almost exclusively lol

[Miss Italy]

I am more than sure you'll do great!

How long did it take you to write each piece of work??

[Stygian Underground]

Oh...I'm not really sure of that actually. The second three or four months, and the first probably four to six. The second took longer to edit and was more difficult to do over all, haha. The third one isn't bad so far...but when I start edits it will probably start to be a pain lol

[Miss Italy]

Editing is definitely the worst part of writing .. couldn't agree with you more there!!

Good luck with your third piece of work too

[Stygian Underground]

Thanks! First story of it is almost done, so three more or so to go!

[Miss Italy]

No worries! You have definitely inspired me to keep going with my own work too!