I DID IT!
I FINALLY PUBLISHED A BOOK!
I wanted it published by the end of the year and I did it!
I kept making myself dead lines (my son’s birthday, my parent’s anniversary, my birthday, Yule) and then miss them and feeling frustrated about it. Every time I’d read the story over I’d find something I wanted to change and so I did. I never had a beta reader or an editor, that will change when I start writing fiction. As Christmas approached I knew I’d be away with no internet for a few days and I wanted it out into the world before then. And amazingly I did it. I published it in ebook format first. I actually had people request it in paperback so I stayed up all night of the 22nd fixing formatting errors for Amazon so that before Christmas the paperback would be available.
The month didn’t begin so great. I had to have a covid test because of a sick coworker. Then my dad ended up in the hospital for a week. Then my husband got an infection in his hand. Then my son moved home and I lost my office space.
One of the editing processes I did to my novel this month was to run it through the Hemmingway editor.
My Review of the Hemmingway Editor:
DON’T BUY IT!
It helps identify only FOUR things: reading difficulty, adverbs, passive voice, phrases with simpler alternatives
It does not correct these things! It only highlights them.
My novel is 50,000 words and when I tried to put all the words at once into the online version it froze up. So I bought the program. When I tried putting all 50,000 words in at once into the paid for program it froze up. So I started working in chunks of 8,000 words. It was able to accept them but when I had some sentences to write it lagged really bad. I would type and then stop typing and wait and watch as the letters slowly appeared on the screen. So I wouldn’t recommend writing in it any more than you have to to fix some editing. Paid version does nothing different than the online version.
So now that I’ve accomplished my goal of becoming a published author what is next for me?
Write more! Publish more!
I miss swimming. I miss green grass. I miss warm feet. I miss traveling.