Outlining, outlining, and more outlining... more fiction ASAP.
Outlining...
in General
Forgetting.
in General
I swear, I am forgetting how to write short stories completely. I've done several parts of An Impossible Price so far, and the story hasn't advanced nearly as far as it needs to have by now. At this rate, it's going to be a novella, not a short story. Definitely not what I want.
I may soon have to alter the rules under which I work, such that if I'm writing short fiction, I'm required to outline it first so this sort of thing doesn't happen anymore. Or at least, you know, less often anyway. This is pretty much the same problem that has crippled all of my other works in progress.
Audiobook #2 Update
I did a re-recording of An Improbable Journey tonight, and I used a new microphone. This one's directional, and seems to do a much better job than the iPad mic I used on My Abstract Life.
Take a listen and let me know what you think of the difference in the comments! I've got editing on the new episode started, and should have it done tomorrow. I've also continued editing The Fast and the Dead, though I have no ETA for it.
The Fast and the Dead Revisited
in Editing
Today I've been spending my creative energy getting The Fast and the Dead edited up and properly ready for a genuine eBook release, and what's better, I think I'm really starting to get a feel for how Scrivener can make editing WAY easier. I'm going to get back to it, and hopefully have the results to prove it with soon!
Audiobook #2 Announcement: An Improbable Journey
in News
After getting some feedback on the matter, it seems the next audio book will be An Improbable Journey. I just finished my first recording of it, and i think it went reasonably well. I'll need some beta-listener feedback on it before I can release it of course. It'll probably be a while before I can just release them unheard. I need to improve before that happens.
Reading it aloud was an interesting experience, and is something that from now on will have to become part of my editing practice. I've made a few small edits to the story as a result of experiencing it differently. These are on the order of missing punctuation and so on, very simple corrections, nothing that impacts the story in a big way. There were several of them though, and it was enough that I'll be updating the eBooks available here and on Amazon, Smashwords and Goodreads sometime in the next day or two to reflect the edits.
In further podcast news, I'm getting close to solving the problem that's preventing the audiobooks from showing up in iTunes. I hope to have that fixed in the next day or two as well. Fingers crossed!