It has been awhile since I posted on here, I know, and maybe I should reconsider being more proactive in blogging and perhaps sharing some of my thoughts and feelings on writing and other matters. I haven't really given this blog a fair try and perhaps I have ignored it when it might be what I need to support my work, for lack of a better term. Admittedly there are secondary motivations sometimes to writing a blog, but perhaps such secondary motivations aren't the core of the matter here.
I have tried in the past to find ways of encouraging and supporting my writing, or to put it a bit more bluntly, present my writing to readers, and after some forays and attempts in these areas, I usually abandon such efforts. It might not be sincere or earnest in those regards and so it is with the blog at times, but perhaps I could be more earnest and sincere with the blog than via other means and methods.
I don't know how to present myself at times and I don't know how other readers might find out about my writing, but other readers have found my work, mostly through Smashwords, and I wonder if these are accidental discoveries, if they stumbled upon my work while searching through Smashwords archives, or if they might read the blog or come to via other means. I can't tell sometimes, and I am curious to find out the truth of the matter here.
I probably shouldn't poke or ask questions about how I got my readers. I am glad to have some readers. But I just want to know if there is anyone who has stumbled across this blog, who read my work, and if the blog helped them to learn about it.
Please comment on this post or in any of the other posts and tell me if this blog has been successful in a certain regard. Or write a review of my work on Smashwords and other sites if you've had a chance to look at it. I am very interested in such comments and reviews, positive, negative, or neutral, and I thank you in any case for writing such a comment or review.
Now progress report, because I haven't been keeping up this blog in over half a year: I've edited 120 pages on the Kirna's Apprentice 2002 with over 200 pages left to go. I hired a editor to look over the sequel, whose title I'm not ready to reveal yet, and while they did a fairly thorough edit, I'm going back in to change some stuff and I've gone about 120 pages to editing/rewriting some of that material as well.
In the end, I might drop the 2002 from the titles, because of all the editing and rewriting I've done with both of these books that have changed the style and tone from my more youthful writing in 2002. But both of these books will still remain in the Legends of Arria 2002 series because, at this point, it's going to be difficult to insert them into the main Legends of Arria series. I cannot do that because I'm not certain how some of the older characters will play out, change, or if they might even exist in that other continuity. And I do have some crazy ideas for parallel universes and crossovers between the two series with the different standards and characteristics between them, but that's another story.
As to the 5th volume in the Legends of Arria series, still not quite keen on what title to use, I've written approximately 260 pages, up about 120 pages in the last 6 months or so. I have a fairly good framework for what the story might be, I just have to set it up some more and stitch it together, literally in some cases.
I've kind of veered off and considered an interest in other mediums of writing, but I will try to get back on track with novel writing and dive deeper into that. Thanks again for your consideration.
