Yet another tool I will try to use to motivate me to be as productive as I can be, I will update this blog at least every Sunday. It was convenient that this year started on Sunday, making a perfect beginning for me to get this going.
Progress on The Sevensong has been almost non-existent, which is frustrating especially since that's my own fault. I don't have writer's block at the moment, I'm just not pushing myself to take advantages of the time I have. I will make it my goal to have the progress bar on the website move up a couple percentage points this week, which would be about 4k new words. The words are there, I just need to commit them to paper. Or hard drive if we're going to be technical about it.
Today I took some time to go over the path to take my books from a file on my computer to a Kindle-ready file. It's not overly complicated, but it will definitely take some practice to make sure I can do it right. Fortunately I have plenty of time, but I was able to take what I have of my first draft of Heart of Darkness and transfer it over to my Kindle. The cover image and table of contents worked, though they need some formatting, and it was fun to see my book on the device. I even tried out the text-to-speech function until it butchered a character's name, reminding me why I will be sure to make audio versions as well.
