Anna Aden Writes

Day Seven of writing a journal, not bad. At least I'm writing. Yesterday, I managed to write. I did about 800 words or so but still not the cute meet. Then I thought, I've been writing for a very long time, so what is the problem? It beggars belief that I'm stalling on this. Silly really. I guess it's down the self-criticism and that can have a crippling effect on anything. Thinking that nothing I wrote will meet the standard. Whose standard? I don't know. It's like I expect things to be perfect, flow perfectly from the pen and that expectation can be crippling. And make me procrastinate but it's really just getting down to it.  Okay good words of wisedom but will it make writing any easier? Now for synopsis time. I've taken a different approach this time and focused on Leyton rather than Angelica. Synopsis Time The  Forechester Thomas boys keep the blogs in news with their antics. From childhood to adulthood, these boys have been the best of f...

Hello all! So I'm beavering away at my ebook cover and hoping to reveal it in a few days. It's just a simple cover which just states  ROMANCE!!!! Apart from that my day job has been super busy, as me looking for something new. My contact is coming to an end soon. I've also been taking a course but it will be the book after this where the benefit is seen. This will be my second release in my self publishing experiment. So far I've been delayed by a whole month but I want to get cracking this weekend. I still need to learn to plan releases rather than rush and do it last minute. However early November should be okay to release it. This is more a blog on my writing journey, I do have another purely for books. Yes, I'm a blog-a-holic but it's good to go. Once I've published I'll do lessons learn from two book. Don't ask about sales because I haven't done any marketing and I'm a bit shy about telling people I know. However at some poin...

Instead of closing the blog, I've decided to focus this blog on my writing and self-publishing experiment. I had this massive plan to self-publish my novel then after going on a editing & pitching course with Curtis Brown Creative school, I decided to query. So before starting go query,  I gave the novel to another reader who wasn't too sure of the commercial market fit. So then I decided to go back to self-publishing. HOWEVER...I didn't really know how to approach it. My story just seemed too big in terms of cost. It would have cost about $1,000 upwards to publish - considering the word count and editorial support. However Scribophile the writing site had a Q&A by a self-publishing expert, David Kadavy, https://kadavy.net/ who suggested it was best to start small and big towards the goal. At least to learn lessons along the way until one is comfortable. So I did that.  IT AN EYE OPENER! So even though I was keeping an eye on costs, I still spend a lot mor...