It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) post! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. I've been making a little more progress on my upcoming book of short fiction, "Bad Apps", in which I'll tell you how to find out more about that progress in a little bit. But first I'll answer the blog hop's optional question of the month.
IWSG Optional Question
The optional IWSG question for June is: If you ever did stop writing, what would you replace it with? I almost can't imagine myself not writing. If I didn't write I would probably go mad. But maybe not too mad, because if I did stop writing for some reason, I would probably replace it with illustrating. Illustration doesn't have to necessarily be for stories but within itself, like much of fine art, can tell stories as well as be used for exhibiting. Before I got heavily into writing, I used to draw and paint a lot, especially imaginary characters such as warriors dueling monsters, futuristic and alien worlds, and spaceships. Although I still do some of that today, a day job and other duties as an adult give me mostly time to write rather than do both regularly.
BIP/Book-In-Progress
Now for my book-in-progress, "Bad Apps", which will feature stories centering around evil and deadly mobile apps. I've been trying to set more definitive goals for the quantity of work that I do so I can get more done sooner on each story to be included in the collection. I've set a goal based on rate-per-page. Doing this has been helping me to get more done with my book and so hopefully it will help me get the book out before the summer ends.
To find out how I set this goal of rate-per-page, check out my blog post from Monday. In that post I also pay tribute to the 70th anniversary of the 1950s sci fi horror flick, "It Came from Outer Space!" and the one who wrote the screenplay for it, author Ray Bradbury. There’s also a little about the new “Invisible Man” movie (based on H.G. Wells’ novel) that will be releasing soon.
You can find out even more details about my book in progress if you sign up for my free newsletter, "Night Creatures' Call"! The next issue of that will be coming out within the next week, so I'll be spending the majority of my time between my book and my day job working on it during the next few days. So, if you haven’t yet, sign up now so you won’t miss it!
What would you replace your writing with if you were to no longer write? What goals do you set for yourself to get more writing done?
Today’s IWSG is brought to you by these super co-hosts: Patricia Josephine, Diedre Knight, Olga Godim, J. Lenni Dorner, and Cathrina Constantine! IWSG was founded by awesome author Alex Cavanaugh, writer of the Cassa Series of novels!
Until next time . . .
