ROW80-2, wk 4, rpt 1

I’m off to a bit of a slow start this week with 1209 words thus far.  It’s not deadbeat levels but not as much as I could have done.  Too much internet play time.  Write or Die from writeordie.com continues to be my new best friend.   Survivor and Glee have been my not so nice friends and I did want to go see a movie with Hubs (Hanna…meh).  Redesigning the blog wasn’t on the agenda and yet I did it anyway.  Blog OCD…it’s a sickness, really.

Still no beta reading, though I managed a couple of small critiques.  The guilt grows….as is the itch to pull Dori back out and have at her for another round.  Must remember, though, slow and steady wins the race.

My anthology’s out now on Kindle and Nook, with print right behind and that’s pretty cool.  I’m trying to get my name into the Goodreads database as an author, tough because the publisher only listed three of the twenty-four of us “authors” (first and last two story authors).  But one of my writer buddies, who, with me and the other nineteen unmentioned authors, comprise the unmentioned twenty-one, emailed and got herself added, so I did too.  More on this later, I hope.

My cumulative stats are updated on my ROW80-2 page.

Linky for the other ROW80 participants is up and ready for you to share the encouragement with my peers.  Thanks for the read!

P.S. Liking WordPress’s Writing Helper “copy a post” functionality with my ROW80 reports, liking it a lot!

Good news and bad news

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The good news is I received a check in the mail today for…wait for it…$12.75!  This is the fee I earned for selling a 5100 word short story for $0.0025 per word.  Yes, that’s two zeroes immediately following the decimal point, as in 1/4 of one penny per painstakingly selected word.  I am officially a (meagerly) PAID author AND since my piece exceeded 5000 words, I’ll receive a free print copy of the anthology that contains my work. Woo-hoo.  No, that should be WOO-HOO!! and I mean that without any trace of sarcasm.

The bad news is two-pronged as well.  First, I’ve spent $10 (with no forthcoming royalty rights) downloading an e-copy for myself and one as a slightly belated birthday gift for my father.

Second, I’m not as proud of my work as I should be, as I want to be.  I read it last night on the heels of one of the other stories by an author I “know”.  It’s like sewing the most beautiful dress you can imagine to the best of your abilities and proudly showing up at prom only to realize it looks painfully homemade next to the sequined gowns of the other ladies.  😦  Dotted swiss with rick rack trim seemed like a good idea at the time.

On the other hand, I don’t know too many folks who would have the nerve (or cluelessness) to submit a comedic story for a horror/erotica anthology.  I’ll give myself a few chutzpah points for that to tip the scale to the positive side.  After all, my silly nature did net me a Silverback and a couple of smart aleck kids.  Oh…wait…