The Lackadaisical Writer

For today's episode, after a slightly long bit of news and notes, I break from the original planned topic of the editing process to share some of the podcasts I listen to and the blogs I regularly follow.

As promised, today's episode is taking a look at Aisuru's failed PubSlush campaign and contemplating what I think I did wrong and my future thoughts on the concept. There are also a few quick updates on Aisuru's road to publication!

It's NaNo wrap up time! For this episode, I talk about how I did with this year's National Novel Writing Month, what I learned about myself, what I love about Duality, and evaluate what I did wrong and right as I went through the month.

Next to the last of the NaNo episodes for this year, and I start by yapping about our wacky weather again before getting to the important stuff, like how I kicked butt this wee and got caught up on my NaNo novel. Yeah baby! And, because the episode ended up being so short, I read another snippet of Duality just for you guys! Enjoy!

Week two of NaNo is in the bag! After whining about the cold a bit, I talk about my decision to cancel Aisuru's crowdfunding campaign, the increase in my website traffic, introduce Aisuru's new editor, and (of course) give an update on my NaNo progress. Spoiler alert, I'm still behind!

It's the second of my NaNo episodes, so mostly short and full of updates! Starting off with the PubSlush campaign's progress, or lack there of, and my doubts on its likely success. Then I talk about the WordPress situation some more and my continued indecision on the editing choice, particularly regarding the financial implications. Then, after doing the actual updates on my turtle-speed NaNo progress, I share the opening of the third chapter.

First of November's sort of briefer episodes that will mostly be updates. So this week it's all about the start of the Pubslush campaign, the Aisuru editing situation, the launch of my new blog (yes, a blog), and of course my first NaNo update!

Word Count: 2,052

Links: http://anmanatsu.com/blog

Essentially this one is a two-for-one deal, because it's practically two episodes in one! For the first chunk (about 40 minutes or so), it's all about giving you updates on Aisuru. A ton of stuff is happening really fast, including Aisuru being off to editors for samples/quotes. The big news is Aisuru's crowdfunding campaign - it is a go and it starts November 1st!!! Insanity!

Progress Report: Footnotes done in Aisuru and final fixes from previous feedback, first chapter at editors for samples/quoting, crowdfunding campaign scheduled to launch 11/1

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For the next segment of prepping for NaNo, it's time to talk characters! The best stories have well-developed major characters, so today I talk about some of the things that makes for compelling characters, why its important to know your characters well, and ways to get to know (and thus flesh out) your characters better.

Progress Report: Nothing to really report beyond getting Aisuru to Word and mostly formatted; still need to add the footnotes

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Of course this episode opens with my happy news of Aisuru's final major revision being done and talking about the next steps in the process to getting it out there! Yay!! Then on to the main topic in the first on my series of "Prepping for NaNo", namely deciding what you're going to write! I talk over a bunch of ways to come up with story ideas, tips on narrowing it down to just one, and then go over planning out those initial details of the story.

Progress Report: Finished the last major revision of Aisuru and started next steps; got some prep work done for Duality