Pernell Rogers – Writer

Posts Tagged ‘fiction writing’

Hello, all! It’s taken over three years, but I have finally completely finished my collection STARTING OVER. Right now, reviewers are reading, and I have my fingers crossed that they’ll like it. Now, the waiting game is on. I plan on publishing it sometime in November, but that may change. The cover I’ve chosen is below.

I used the latest version of Calibre to create my own epub and mobi files, and I must admit, it was quite a learning curve. Modifying the MS Word document to work with Calibre took multiple attempts and a lot of hours. However, now that I was successful, it doesn’t seem so hard now. Maybe when I start to create my series of files, I’ll forget again. Creating a printed PDF document was just as challenging, but I gained practical experience.

Marketing will be the next task after the reviews.

I’ve been performing final edits on my 4-book series ‘An Unexpected Evil’. Last night, I began cursory searches for different covers for the series, and came up with a delightful idea of what I want on each cover. I’m jumping ahead because the stories haven’t been edited professionally yet.

Something surprised me today. I logged into writing.com and saw that someone left a review of one of my flash fiction stories from 2018 I forgot I wrote. When I read it, I know it can become something much, much bigger, and it also places me back inside the horror genre. I still need to finish the second mystery I’m working on before I start any new endeavors, but it’s nice to have a story in the chamber. Take care!

Hello all! Everything’s coming to a head now. I’m on the final editing step of my collection: listening to it. I’ve already found a cover and done some preliminary formatting. If you run the short movie on my main page, you’ll see that the last image is the cover I’ve chosen for the collection!

I’ve also modified my website. The current changes are only temporary. Once I publish my collection, I’ll design a new main page. All of this is taking up a lot of time. Before publishing, I’m going to send out ARCs to see if I can get a few reviews to help with marketing. I’ve never done it before, so it will me a fresh experience.

I’m still in the throes of my second mystery. It’s moving along at a much slower pace because I keep discovering ways to twist the story, but I like where it’s heading. I’m finding writing mysteries is as much fun as watching them. Take Care!

Hi all! Well, I broke through that scene. HURRAY! But it led me to another emotional scene, but this time as I wrote it, I kept my emotions in check, concentrating on only the words and not the emotions attached to them. It was hard and tears welled, but none fell. I’m dreading editing this story, when the time comes.

This story is flowing from my head at an unprecedented rate. A few days ago I wrote over 5000 words! The next day was 3000, and yesterday, I wrote 1000 in about 90 minutes. I’ve never had a story flow so well. Act 1 of the first draft is complete. Now the meat of the story lies ahead. Take care and stay safe!

Hello all. I asked my editor for a developmental edit of my upcoming collection of stories, and I received the feedback this past Friday. I was impressed how well she pointed out my strengths and weaknesses. My personal thoughts are anyone wishing to publish a story should send it through developmental editing. I’m lacking reviews for my stories, so getting feedback is extremely difficult. A developmental edit helps fill in that gap.

During a quick search, I found the following website that explains the different aspects of editing:

There are many more that explain the same subject, but I like this one. Most of my other editing revolved around copyediting and proofreading only. I think I have to include developmental editing now for all my writing.

For this upcoming collection, she recommended I remove certain sections of my stories because they tend to bog it down, and I agree.

A spark lit in my mind.

For those that join my mailing list, I will send them the backstory information of each character in my stories. I write backstories all the time to help me understand their motivations, and in case my readers need to understand also, here’s their chance to get it directly from me.

Until next time! Keep reading!