The blog I should be writing was written in 2014<\/p>\n
I should be writing a blog.\u00a0 A blog that allows me to link to my books in some way or adds to the greater good (IMHO) with a commentary on passing affairs.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, I had an idea about writing one describing the reasons why I have given up playing golf – perhaps another day.<\/p>\n
I could add more on a whole variety of subjects that I would like to write about, Scottish Independence, the NSA, more on the hacking trial, even the disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines flight<\/a>.\u00a0 Lots of things to talk about.\u00a0 Instead what have I done?\u00a0 Editing of my sequel to An Agent’s Demise<\/a> (managed to get a link in somewhere).\u00a0 I have lost track of how many times I have read and re-read sections, trying to hone the plot, justify character’s actions and get rid of the allowed<\/em> for aloud<\/em> stupid mistakes. I of course have written about this before, here<\/a>, but, now I have an editor.\u00a0 I hope I have also learned some rules even though some go against what I was taught years ago.<\/p>\n For example starting sentences with conjunctions like and<\/em> and but<\/em> is apparently allowed (not aloud). I was always taught to use two spaces after a full stop (not a period – sorry USA it’s called English for a reason) but apparently that means I am a dinosaur left over from the typewriter age. Professional publishing with its typefaces never used two spaces anyway, allegedly.\u00a0 Now we have serif and sans serif fonts to worry about. With an ebook the publisher has no control over what font the reader uses on whatever screen resolution, in whatever colour (It has a u in it WordPress, Goodreads, et al) or not is used.\u00a0 The quick brown fox<\/em> Microsoft Word test is always fun in different fonts.<\/p>\n I’m rambling again, I still have another five chapters to edit in An Agent’s Rise<\/a> before a Beta Reader test then an edit or three.\u00a0 I’m also waiting the return of To The Survivors<\/a> from a professional edit of the MS.\u00a0 Then I have The Persuasive Man<\/a> to send off and The World of Fives<\/a>.\u00a0 I think it’s ready, having incorporated some Beta reader feedback. Maybe one more read through, then I’ll have to start Part Two of the series.\u00a0 I was again asked if I would write a sequel to To The Survivors.\u00a0 I am still not sure, I have to have an idea for the sequel, where does it go? The story I mean, I’m in need of inspiration.<\/p>\n Then maybe in a month or so I may be ready to publish my fourth and fifth books, different genres once more. Cover design, formatting, uploading (Smashwords I’m looking at you) then marketing.\u00a0 I was not going to do any links but here I am.\u00a0 A page of non-blog rambles with links to all my current and next two books neatly embedded.\u00a0 Anyone would think I had done that deliberately.\u00a0 Now where’s those badly used discarded golf clubs, I hear there are good prices for scrap metal!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The blog I should be writing was written in 2014 I should be writing a blog.\u00a0 A blog that allows me to link to my books in some way or adds to the greater good (IMHO) with a commentary on passing affairs. Yesterday, I had an idea about writing one describing the reasons why I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,27,35,87,211,296,298,305,315,405,544,585,675,751,764,818,824],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-blogs","tag-advertising","tag-amazon","tag-an-agents-demise","tag-book","tag-e-book","tag-golf","tag-goodreads","tag-grammar","tag-hacking","tag-kindle","tag-persuasion","tag-publishing","tag-smashwords","tag-the-persuasive-man","tag-to-the-survivors","tag-wordpress","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phenweb.co.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}