To begin, there are two pledge levels that I forgot to mention before, but I’ve seen them for nearly every project I’ve joined, so they’re deserving of mention: “$1”: you want to help out, but you just want to “get your feet wet”. For that you can pledge a single buck. It brings no perks […]
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Crowdsourcing 101
I did this near the end of 2013 for a novel on Indiegogo. I’ll talk more about that novel in another post. I’ll have to do it again at some point. I didn’t achieve my full funding goal then… in part because many people didn’t really understand what I was trying to do, so I’ll attempt […]
Long Time Away for Me
I was away writing (of course) but didn’t have a lot happen, full disclosure… My novel funding didn’t go as far as I would have liked. It was a big learning experience however, and I’ll still finish it… I’m still trying to finish my novel for those who funded though. Of course, profits from others […]
Back to Work!
To my day job, blogging and writing. I’ve been at home for 2 weeks due to my holiday break. I also took time off from writing to recharge my creativity. Even though my Indiegogo campaign didn’t make funding, I still intend to finish the novel. Most of the people who did pledge I know in […]
NaNoWriMo 2013: How Did I Do?
As you can see above, it wasn’t a victory. Well, not for the competition, anyway. It’s still quite an accomplishment from zero words. I have a good outline. My characters are well-defined. I wrote daily but not with enough BIC (Butt in Chair) to make my daily word quota. Thus, I’m not far enough in […]
NaNoWriMo 2013: My First Post
I haven’t updated here for some time for several reasons. First was the Indiegogo campaign that I mentioned here. I asked many people that I know to get it funded. A few did, many didn’t. Some of those who didn’t seem a bit miffed. I’m hoping that some if not most of them will talk […]
An Excerpt
In order to give you a taste for me to get my novel done, here’s a taste: Tommy brought Alex into his office. No one would suspect something unusual about Rigger going to talk to his partner Shivver. “You’ll have to be my wingman now,” Tommy said. Alex frowned. “You’ve been gone for a while, […]
Writing a Series (How to Sustain It)
I intend to keep Rigger, Mortiz and Shivver going as a series as I’ve said before. How I plan to do so in part has to do with the “worlds” of the characters. They each bring a different dimension to stories, and as a result different approaches to the stories and avenues to explore: Rigger […]
My Actual Novel Illustrator
(This gives me more content for this blog… and few would read it on my project yet anyway.) As I said in my project text, the image that I”m using right now for my project isn’t what I’ll ultimately go with. It’s better than what I can draw myself, but it’s pretty static, lacking the […]
I’ve Talked the Talk, Now I’m Walking the Walk
I now have a novel project on Indiegogo: http://igg.me/at/rmsb/x/1608027 Kickstarter now accepts projects from Canada, but it only has an all-or-nothing plan: you make your funding goal or you get nothing. I’ve already got over 100 notes in my mind map for this. Hope it goes well! It goes without saying that I’ll be using […]