Comments on: Accountability Post #13 ~ To Reach that Goal ~ #amwriting #selfpublishing

By: Georgia Rose

Georgia Rose — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 06:55:46 +0000

In reply to Skilbey. Thanks for that tip, Skilbey, I shall go and give that a try. I hope you enjoy the last, full time, weeks with your girl. They’ll be much more time for your writing once you get to September I’m sure.

By: Skilbey

Skilbey — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 23:27:09 +0000

Hiya,
There is a website created by a Russian software programmer called, “I write like…” It analyses your sentence structure word choice etc and compares them with famous writers. Could be useful to you?
Lovely to hear your news. Things are a bit slow with me. I’ve lots of research/ reading material to get through andI’m hoping to get my head down and writing again in Sept when I will have lost one girl to Uni. (yes!)… just one more to go.

By: Georgia Rose

Georgia Rose — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 20:52:59 +0000

In reply to E. L. Lindley.

That is great to hear, E. I have no problem typing up notes, I don’t have to think then! It’s when I have to come up with new stuff that I get bogged down – haha! I wish you a productive holiday and hope you get out of it what you want. 😀

By: E. L. Lindley

E. L. Lindley — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:10:30 +0000

In reply to Georgia Rose.

You’ve increased by almost 2000 which is not bad going. I’ve got lots of bits of paper with hand written chapters but none of it typed up – which is always the worst bit for me. And you are right the first day of the school hols today so I’m hoping to do something productive. I have so many plans so lets see if they come to fruition 😀

By: Georgia Rose

Georgia Rose — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 19:28:55 +0000

In reply to E. L. Lindley. Oh!! That is it, exactly! You have got it absolutely, E. I overestimate what I can achieve in the time available. I think the word count is going up terribly slowly actually, although I do tend to do quite a tight first draft so perhaps it’s not too bad. How’s the next chapter for James and Georgie going?? Don’t think I’ve missed that we are back in the school holidays so I hope some words are going to be added to that MS over the next few weeks!!

By: E. L. Lindley

E. L. Lindley — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:43:33 +0000

I’m not sure I underestimate time so much as overestimate what I’m going to achieve in it 😉 I’m impressed by how your word count is going up!

By: Georgia Rose

Georgia Rose — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 07:52:21 +0000

In reply to anita dawes. I’m not sure I know where to start with it, Anita. Plus with my natural British reserve it feels like you think a lot of yourself to liken your work to anyone well-known. That’s why I thought I’d ask the question. Plus a lot of people read far more than I get to and would have better knowledge on these things anyway.

By: Georgia Rose

Georgia Rose — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 07:47:53 +0000

In reply to Terry Tyler. I hadn’t thought about it from a star sign point of view, T. How interesting is that! I don’t think I’m that pessimistic anyway actually so perhaps that’s where I’m not so Capricorny :-) I won’t be mentioning any famous authors name in relation to mine, don’t worry. I had a wonderful review on The Joker (which was recently removed for some spurious reason as I don’t know the reviewer) which mentioned two mega authors that my writing was like and was incredibly flattering, but I could never have mentioned them in the same sentence as my own. Far too embarrassing.

By: anita dawes

anita dawes — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 07:08:37 +0000

Draft2Digital is a lot easier than some, but you still need to make sure you have included everything. As for finding authors who write in a similar style/genre, this is something I have wondered about too. (I suspect we read the same advice when it comes to self publishing!) I keep meaning to spend an afternoon browsing the category lists on Amazon, more for somewhere to start. If you find anything more productive, I’m sure you will let us all know…

By: Terry Tyler

Terry Tyler — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 06:43:38 +0000

I’m the opposite with time – I always think everything’s goint to take longer. Probably because I can’t stand last minute rushes. Am always early for everything. I get to railway stations with 40 minutes to spare. Which is odd, because one would think that you would be Capricornly pessimistic and I would Leoninely optimistic, insted of the other way round!!!

Sorry, can’t help with the famous author thing, but then I don’t read much in your genre. Do it subtly, though… I am sure you will!!! (Don’t want any potential readers doing what I do: ‘Oh, I see, reckons he writes like Philip K Dick, does he? We’ll see about that’ *poises finger to highlight criticisms* !!!!)