@BobWilliams It's always a good day when you get work done, right? 🙂 Or at least, that's how it feels to me.

I've been dithering about doing artwork for a few days now and I finally got something done yesterday and I feel great about it. So I think I know how you feel 🙂

@BobWilliams Coincidentally, I was almost on the verge of getting back into Adobe apps till yesterday 🙂

I haven't used Adobe apps in ages — probably 15 yeras? But Fresco looked very good for drawing on a tablet and I was tempted. Was about to pull the trigger when I tried Affinity again (which I hadn't for a while) with v2 and I went back to Affinity and I guess I'm punting Fresco?

@BobWilliams Hope the COVID goes out of your system soon. That's a lot to deal with — the COVID, the sleep issues and so on.

My day's not too bad. Trying to learn how to do basic art work since I want to try out my hand at a comic based on the characters from the novel I'm writing. Not sure I'll get there but it's always fun dabbling with this stuff 🙂

@BobWilliams For me, 4:00am is generally the time I wake up, but I'm sorry that you woke up so early ...

We go to sleep by about 8:30pm and so I guess 4:00am isn't so bad. Today, woke up at 4:30 or so. So really an improvement on most days 🙂

@BobWilliams I know how that feels 🙂Had one of those weekends — noisy AirBnB neighbours waking up every night multiple times. Was running on like 4 hours of sleep but then come bedtime, don't feel too sleepy.

Hope you got some work done 🙂

Better poll than the last one!

Which do you prefer? 📚

Boosts welcomed! 🔁❤️

@AngelaPreston I'm sorry you're not feeling well. My personal opinion about the work part is always "put yourself first because work generally will not". Even at the most understanding/flexible companies I've worked at, there's always somebody who wants work to be put before yourself. And I've never agreed with that.

But that's just me 🙂Hope you feel better!

@dyani @elysegrasso eBooks for me too 🙂

Back in the day (before ebooks) I loved paperbacks because I could carry more of them with me. Plus, hardbacks were more expensive.

Once ebooks became an option, I switched my entire collection to ebooks. We used to have to move boxes and boxes of books each time we moved. Now I have all my books on my phone. So much easier to take your entire collection with you wherever you go 😀

@johnhowesauthor Thanks, will take a look 🙂

Now is your best chance to find my book, "Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog" available for a promotional price at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7491

#SWSale2024 #Smashwords #ScienceFiction #Humour #SciFi #BookPromo #SupportIndieAuthors #FediBooks #Author #Bookstodon #Writing

@johnhowesauthor Interestingly, I was looking at the same images on Pixbay a couple of days ago — I distincly remember the first one, might even have saved it 🙂

I am kind of in the same boat — I can't justify the cost of an illustrator. My wife, who does art wants to do the cover, but her health isn't the greatest and she's going through some challenges at the moment. So it'll probably be something from Pixbay or a similar place ...

@AngelaPreston I'm glad you're feeling better 🙂

@aurora My experience is mostly with Sri Lanka and that too not in the literary magazine sector. It was easy (or at least it seemed easy back then) to find writing gigs in English, but they paid very little 😛

So I guess it all depends on country, sector, and a few other factors. But getting back to the original discussion, @johnhowesauthor, if you really feel like writing for a magazine, I think you should give it a shot and see how it goes?

But I do realize that it might not be as easy as just wanting to do it and being able to get in if there are other barriers where you are, as per Aurora's point.

I have this Fedi-client which does everything that I want that's customized to fit my needs. But it's so molasses-stuck-in-the-mud slow at times 😛

I have a newer Fedi-client which doens't have all the features but is so much faster. While it's great for reading posts on here, if I try to do anything besides read (or write anything besides a post with text) it isn't very useful.

I want to update the new Fedi-client but I'm also trying to write a novel at the same time. Don't you wish you had more time?

I wanted less time as a kid since the days seemed to stretch on to infinity. But now, I want more time all the time 😛

@johnhowesauthor @aurora As somebody who never went to uni either, I’ve never felt as if I missed out on anything 🙂

I’ve always felt that by-rote memorisation was not the way to learn anything. I learnt more from books in my early years than I did through the conventional education system … But I’ll get off my soapbox now 😛

@ptmesis I've always considered myself a pantser. Wrote my first novel without any idea where it was going — just let my characters lead me there.

Started a few more in the same way, but didn't complete them for various reasons.

Recently started a new novel where I plotted out the outline first. Not the full story, but the structure of it and this actually helped me write much faster because I knew where I was going. I still let the characters lead me to the destination and so the overall structure might change a bit as the story evolves, but knowing where I'm headed helps me write faster. If that makes sense?

But yes, I do the "fixing" as I write too 🙂 My characters might suddenly decide to zig instead of zag and that upsets what I'd written before. So I'd go back and fix things as the story moves forward ...

As I completed 10 chpaters on what I thought would be my 2nd novel, I discovered that I had another novel that I had forgotten about which had 20 chapters done 😛

So I started editing that with the hope of finishing it quickly before getting back to what I thought would be my 3rd novel. I got the 20-chapter edit pass done but am now slowing down on getting the last few chapters written.

I probably went too hard at the editing. Need to slow down. It will come when it comes ....

"Monkey Man" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9214772) is I think what John Wick would be if he was Indian 🙂

The movie is bloody, violent, dark, and grimy. But at the same, it expresses the anger of the poor, the downtrodden, and the powerless, so very well. If you can stomach the violence, worth a watching.

#Movies #English #Hindi #Action #Violent

@davemark With a Roku stick, you can turn any hotel room TV into an AirPlay capable TV 🙂That's what we do whenever we travel — just plug the Roku stick into the hotel TV and then use that to watch stuff. Works very well ...

@crcollins I'm thrilled for you because I know how exciting it is when things come together 🙂

I started my first book intending for it to be a series. But it never quite got there. But my wife, who's a writer too, loved the univers I created and she started putting her books in the same universe. She's written at least 2 - 3 novels set in the same universe.

My second novel's set in the same universe as well and so I guess it's kind of a series in terms of setting but not quite. I do want the characters in my second novel to appear in more books, but the third novel (which I'm already working on) is about totally differnt characters.

So I'm not sure if I'll ever actually get to a series. But who knows?

But 9 books! I don't know if I can even dream that far ahead 😛