12 September 2017

We are already 12 days into September. I have been keeping busy sorting Poser file in my computer, making a few pictures with Poser, making short trips to Springfield for Dr. appointments (For my boyfriend's father), and even a weekend trip up to Hannibal Missouri for a Steampunk Festival. Been feeling tired from all the things going on and napping a lot and watching things on Netflix. I have not been much inspired to write because of all the other things I have been doing.

I watched a couple of documentaries on Netflix yesterday and today, first was Ken Burn's The Big Burn, about the wildfire along the Montana/Idaho border in 1910. Was a very sad yet informative documentary. Apparently President Taft was quite an ass and until the press made things hard on him, he was content to do nothing about the fires or to help the fledgling Department of Forestry.

The other documentary I watched was on Otzi, the Iceman (Nova). The scientists in charge of tending him hired an artist from Missouri to recreate Otzi in detail so others could see him and study him without causing damage to the original. They also discovered that his DNA placed him in Sardinia and that he came from farming people. They still do not know why he was killed or why he was in the alps. It was very interesting to watch and informative. I always did like history. I got ideas from both documentaries to add into some of my novels.

I have decided I am going to finish my novels and rather than try to publish via a large company, I want to self-publish them as ebooks. I love my ereader (Nook) and many of our friends and family have either Nooks or Kindles. I am still trying to decide if I will charge for them or just give them away. If I do charge for them, it won't be for very much. I think I will most likely give away the first novel in my trilogy about my bard caught up in war and politics, and maybe give away my novel about the Lancashire Witch Trials of 1612. The remainder of my books, I might try to sell for $1.99. I can always lower the price if they don't sell well.

I might even start adding parts of the first novel here, just to see if anyone likes what I have so far. I am still trying to decide on titles for most of my novels. I am not sure why that is such a difficult part of the writing process for me. Titles and dialogue, and love interests. I am not a fan of romance novels and I don't like that novels are now expected to have love interest for the main characters. I know far too many single people who are happy begin single for it to be believable in my mind.

Sure it's nice ot be in love and have someone love you back, but to have them be an integral part of each and every novel? I think I will stick to the older way of writing. I prefer to write what I enjoy reading and not cater to the sometimes silly demands of millennials who don't even bother reading real novels these days.

(This was supposed to have been posted on 12 September 2017, but Blogger was having issues for several days and I was unable to post for a while.)