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Thank you to everyone who has been reading the past two+ years. It really means a lot to me. I wish I had more time to work on this, but I am proud that I have been able to be fairly consistent with it, even being a full-time grad student.
This has been an especially busy week, and, although I do have enough reading to keep me well occupied this weekend, I am also going to try to relax and have a little fun (and probably get a little, okay, so very, drunk at least one or two nights this weekend).
Maybe I will also get some guitar playing accomplished, maybe, start laying down a guitar track over a click-track and get the whole recording thing going that I plan on focusing on over Spring Break. My goal is to write and record a song from scratch, everything, including the lyrics. I am going to build it up from a guitar part, then I will probably tackle the drums, and so on... Anyways, for now I am going to focus on the guitar parts. I will probably do some double tracking and bounce it all on one track (since I only have a four-track and I have to be a little more creative about how I go about it.
I don't really feel like I need more technology at this point. I am satisfied with what I have. Maybe a few more effects, but even that is not necessary. I do need to get my my keyboard back, or take a weekend and my recording equipment and go to one of my relatives who have an organ... Actually, I might do that instead since it is a better fit for the music I am likely going to record.
I still have those three stories I am working on editing, although I am almost done with one of them. The other two are longer and will take a little longer, but I am not going to rush it. I do want to get them wrapped up and sent out to different markets. With those and the other stories I have sent out, hopefully I will be able to build more of a readership of this blog, which will hopefully lead to future book sales (whether I self publish or go through a publisher).
I have compiled twelve short stories (versions of which have previously been published on this blog, except for one, actually), with which I am looking to test the self-publishing market. The collection, titled Tales from the Fringes, I am looking at publishing through Create Space so I can publish both in print and in e-book format, and I don't have to put a lot of money into it (since, as I understand it, they keep the template for my book and print it per order. I don't technically have to put any money into it...as far as I can see. However, I will what I can within reason).
Now it is a matter of researching self-publishing and book design. I want it to look professional. If it doesn't look like it could have been published by a legitimate publisher, then it defeats the point. It seems like that is the problem with a lot of self-published books: they are an inferior product. I am not looking to self-publish as a last resort as much as an alternative option to traditional publishing. This is why I am putting together something with which I can use to test the market.
This means I will like take down the fiction page -- at least until I have some different stories to post on it. The stories in the compilation will be edited for writing quality and proofread for typos and grammatical errors. They will hopefully be improved versions of the stories.
This is all in anticipation of my novel, which I am still waiting to hear back about and will likely focus on over the summer as I write my second (and possibly third -- since it has already been brainstormed and actually already exists in the form of a screen play. The screenplay itself is only like 30 pages, but, with the amount of detail I am adding, it will be over 50,000 words, or so I have calculated). I have a fourth book idea too, but I am not that crazy. That I will save for the following year. Actually I have a great back file of ideas and possibilities.
Anyways, it's that time of year, whether you're Irish (or, as in my case, only part Irish), or even not Irish at all, to get out the Jameson, Bailey's, Guiness, etc. and get fucked up while listening to The Pogues (Yeah, that's right, Flogging Molly and the Dropkick Murphys ain't got shit on the Pogues)!
Happy St. Patty's weekend!
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