Writing Tasks

Wayfarer 8 will be Wayfarer Freedom.  I’m nearly ready for production.  I have a group of short stories ready for production but I don’t have a name for the book.  I also have to think about a cover and name.  These stories have gone to my test readers.

I have a second set of short stories which I have to edit, then I will decide whether they will be individual short stories or if I will do them as a book.  Wayfarer 9 has gone through a number of edits.  I need to come up with a name.  I have several in mind but I’m not in love with any of them.  I also need to work on the cover.

I’m apparently in edit mode right now because I keep working through all of these different manuscripts.  I’ve got a number of projects going and I hope I can get some of them cleared up in the next couple of weeks.

Hopefully in the next month, I’ll be able to get the four projects (two Wayfarer novels and two short story groupings) completed and through production.  I’ve also got a number of marketing things I’m working on for getting people interested in my crochet patterns.

I have to keep reminding myself it’s one step at a time.  I can only do one thing and keep moving forward.  It’s a matter of working hard, keeping focused, and keeping at it daily.

Short Stories Available

It’s been a productive morning.  Ken went to help his dad.  While he was away, I got down to work paying bills, and starting production.  Now I’m four hours into my day, I’ve got six short stories published.

Some of these were inspired by a writing prompt.  Witches’ Tower is about the mythology and ghost stories rising from the local town having had a Spiritualist college in the late 1800s.

Writing short stories is a challenge because you have to develop all of the aspects of a good story in a short amount of space.  I don’t have twenty chapters to explore the story or the characters.  I have ten pages (maybe).

At one point I thought these stories might go longer but the more I tried to work on them the more I realized they were just meant to be short and sweet.

These are all in the science fiction / fantasy / horror genre.  I have more short stories which will come out later in other genres.  There’s nothing like a good spooky story.

They are available on Smashwords and Amazon.  Check out my web site:  http://eileentroemel.weebly.com/  I have a new page dedicated to the short stories.