Maybe you saw yesterday, maybe you didn’t, but Abaddon Books has asked me back into the writer’s stable, even after that… incident with the donkey (“Chuck Wendig Returns To Abaddon”). And what will Chuck — er, me — be doing? First up is a sequel to DOUBLE DEAD called BAD BLOOD…
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Looking back, staring forward. Standing on this head-of-the-pin moment between two years — an arbitrary distinction, perhaps, from when one calendar becomes useless and a new one must be hung, but a distinction just the same and a fine enough moment to pause and reflect.
But c’mon, son. It’s Christmas week. It’s time to spread a little holly jolly cheer. Time to soak ourselves in Egg Nog and dance on tables, urinating nutmeggy love into one another’s eyes. Um. … yeah. Let’s just move onto the list. Here, then, are ways for writers to help other writers. Please to enjoy.
Self-publishing ain’t an easy road to walk. Oh, it’s sold that way. A lot of the self-publishing advice out there amounts to all the fucking wisdom of a Nike slogan: JUST DO IT, they say. But doing the DIY-slash-indie-slash-micropub-slash-selfpub route is a path fraught with perils all its own — perils different from those encountered by the writer going the “other” way.
Listen, desperation is par for the course when you’re a writer — the miasma of flop-sweat surrounds me every day. But you need to transform that desperation from wanting to be published to writing a helluva story. The latter step should come before the former, but self-publishing only further helps to shortcut that.
Two things are becoming abundantly clear: First, we’re eventually going to need to track all this stuff. A Wiki, maybe. I have zero experience with that and, further, zero time to deal with it, so that’s maybe wishful thinking. Second, we may eventually need a map. Same problem: I am no cartographer, and my time is zilch-o.
