WWW is a meme hosted by Sam A. Stevens at Taking on a World of Words. To participate, answer these 3 questions, and add your blog link to the comments on the linked article above. If you’d like to participate and don’t have a blog, never fear! You can visit Sam Stevens’ blog and leave your W’s in a comment on her Wednesday posts.
I’d love to hear about what you are reading, as well, so please leave me a comment, too!
The Three Ws are:
What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next?
This week, as always, has been a learning experience. I habitually do research on any topic that catches my fancy and I love to learn new technical tools and techniques. Writing, navigating the process of getting a manuscript ready to publish, and thinking beyond publication to promotion have given me many opportunities to feed the Elephant’s Child. At times, I’m overwhelmed by all the information, but as I search, read, and apply, I’m finding that the same information comes up in multiple contexts, and bits and pieces I didn’t understand the first or second time begin to make sense by the third time I see them.
My main focus this week has been on online editing tools and on taming the amount of time I spend working on social media. By “working”, I mean social media tasks to develop a platform for connecting with readers and eventually promoting my first book. In a way, it’s like developing a persona. I don’t express my entire personality when I wear my writer’s hat on social media, but I do express some aspects of myself that haven’t seen the light of day in recent years. From the inside, I feel like I’m in touch once again with some of my longest-running interests. So many subjects of interest from my teens and early 20s had to be put aside due to other commitments. Now those interests aren’t just relevant. They are central.
For your reading pleasure, here are several articles about writing, publishing and promoting I’ve read this week and found useful, thought-provoking, and otherwise helpful. In this edition, I’ve focused primarily on the topic of writing, because I ran into several articles on writing that gave me food for thought and tools for improvement. Enjoy!
One of the advantages of writing about what I know and where I live is that I can walk through the settings for some of my scenes, particularly outdoor scenes. And I have a fairly lengthy and dramatic series of scenes set in the Berkeley and Oakland hills of the Bay Area. Today I walked some of the trails and ridges in the Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve, taking in the sights and sounds my characters would experience.
WWW is a meme hosted by Sam A. Stevens at Taking on a World of Words. To participate, answer these 3 questions, and add your blog link to the comments on the linked article above. If you’d like to participate and don’t have a blog, never fear! You can visit Sam Stevens’ blog and leave your W’s in a comment on her Wednesday posts.
I’d love to hear about what you are reading, as well, so please leave me a comment, too!
The Three Ws are:
What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next?
