I'm still here....

I don't give this blog enough attention, sorry. But my writing craft is the focus and writing a blog entry isn't a high priority. Some say it should be, some say this, some say that and where I'm at is, it's about time management.

Sure I would love to come here daily, or at least regularly with this, that and the other but it just isn't in the cards of my time to get things done. I loved writing scripts so much I have quite a few already and even working right now on my third feature script. But I don't know if they will ever come alive, breathe beyond my disk drive, it's all a wait and see. I have only just begun.

I just started pitching executives and others in the movie industry. My first experience was recently and all I can say it was weird from beginning to end.  I thought it went great, the guy was laughing and seemed to be enjoying it all but he passed. I'm jumping back into that fire shortly with a new executive for my TV Comedy series script.

I also have a plan for Return to Limerick for next month. Hopefully it sends it on a track to get made into a movie.

Otherwise I'm still here. Thanks for visiting this little slice of me on the internet. Cheers!

HAPPY EASTER!

This cheery Easter Pic is by Jill Wellington on Pixabay

Got another review!

After a long while I signed into my author central page on Amazon and was surprised to discover that someone had posted a review on The Earthlings. Overall it was a good review, three stars and that I have learned is a very good review.

But something odd was said and it was about "typos". In fact, the review itself led off with the statement that there's a bunch of them. I have to wonder about that part because spell check in Word and Amazon's own spell, check says there are zero typos.

I do reviews on a script writing site and just today I saw a review on a script I reviewed, that ripped this script writer upside down and sideways on a script that maybe had two typos. They claimed in their rant there were 50+ but that would have meant every word was spelled wrong given the script itself was short.

In the beginning of putting myself out there as a writer with novels, short stories and now scripts the review thing was what was waited for like some nirvana water in the desert. Now, I don't wait for them at all but I was happy that the one I got, despite the typo mystery, was a good one.

Writing remains on fire!

So the horror didn't make it. But lately I've been rolling around the internet while I wrote my next and been hitting a ton of posts regarding scripts that didn't make it in a competition and are now in production because they found a talent manager/agent. Also got news from various sites that scripts were picked up that were posted on their sites. I did note they were all short scripts which to me fell in line with another poster's point that two set max short scripts are your best way into production as an unknown.

But for all it's worth I still love writing scripts at a level that I can't stop if I wanted to. I just finished a comedy for TV script and entered it into a competition. Soon as that happens it's "wonder if it's good enough" time. But as always I will take a brief brake to recharge and get back to writing another one.

The writing never stops but I took time on my break between scripts to update you all here. Well it's not a you all it's just a few of you. But I am not promoting anything as of late so it doesn't bother me.

It was a great birthday week but now I have to recover from it.

So I've started my next script and I also got news on one of the competitions I have scripts in right now. They didn't pick me and told me that I was in the wrong category basically. Okay so how did I know family flicks don't allow a bar scene and a corruption reference. When I looked at the quarter finalist list I knew what they meant. Okay more My Little Pony if I do another one of those. But that script is in another competition so it's in mix still and who knows. That competition isn't family it's animation but well, I submitted it under family. That was before I heard from the first one.

I have a horror up for results this week and Thursday. We shall see. But whatever happens writing never ends. As I said I started a new one.

I did have a great week partying it up for my birthday but I went too far and today, ugh, my stomach is feeling that week long fiesta. Today, I am actually looking forward to Monday.

Finished another feature screenplay..

Well everyone I just finished another feature screenplay and sent it off to a competition. I have three screenplays in four competitions now and keeping my fingers crossed. It will be a while before I find out results but I will start writing my next screenplay soon. My happiness is directly connected to writing so I can't stay away for long but breaks are necessary.

As to novels after realizing the very real connection between marketing money and results I decided to take my writing in another direction for now. I hate letting my books languish but my financial reality can't accommodate the marketing requirement. When and if that changes I will go back to it.  But I have to say I am loving writing screenplays and the opportunity to get a story onto a big screen is pretty motivating as well as dreamy. Grab the popcorn!

Love the pic and the credit for it is :  Johnny Lindner   Comfreak on pixabay.com

After all the writing this year....

I am on vacation. I wrote 4 novels, 33 short stories, 2 spec scripts, 1 short story script and a full feature script this year. Phew!

I am looking forward to next year. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to all of you!

A Wonderful Editorial Review for Return To Limerick

Another Step Forward as a Writer

I have entered the quagmire of being a writer, experiences analyzed defining what I will do next. I avoid the deep because that isn't where I want to go when I go down my own rabbit hole. I want adventure, thrills and fun. That took awhile for me to appreciate, when I was a kid I was scared of roller coasters. Now I am an aficionado, well I was, maybe not anymore, I already defeated that hill of fear but I will still accept a ride on an interesting roller coaster. And to this day I still warmly remember my dad saying it's okay that I don't want to ride the roller coaster as a kid being chided by my old sisters and cousins.

I am amazed on how much money I can now survive on. That took practice, I didn't come from big money but my upbringing gave me a close look at life at the top from a very young age even though that wasn't my life. I did the things that I could replicate how those people got to that point. I actually made it to the, I think it was 2%, because even I was surprised by it.

But damn were their people that hated that fact. I mean downright hate, the real stuff where people spend so much of their own time hating you for it that I think it sends Ravens. Don't get me started on that one. I fought for the good and the good life through it all, every turn, every up and every down and sometimes damn, I mean, my head was just above water. The one I trusted enough to marry had let me and our three kids down to satisfy his own perverted sexual desires. I had become the valiant knight my kids could rely on but the fight against the hate of succeeding at that made things that had gotten better, worse.

I didn't understand that these people weren't kids anymore, they had made their decisions about what they would do for work in their lives and so had I. I just spent more time being a starving student to get where I got. But I wanted to live with everyone else, you know, where I started. My hood, we all have one. I'm pretty sure at this point that I represented in their minds the one that meant they hadn't done enough with their own lives. Their own sadness, guilt, laziness, whatever. So they attacked and attacked and I ignored them, then I fought back, then I did the civil thing and it ended everything finally and I even got one apology from one of those lunatics.

So I wished for a happy ending after all that drama and frankly real pain and suffering. People are crazy, they are and we all have to live through that. But this felt over the top, like too many things did but I got through them all. Or so I thought.

Okay wait, I have to admit, I have had more than a few drinks and some weed too. Don't worry I can handle it and I always do. I am known for it in places I am known. Anyway, these additions have me rambling and I just might delete this tomorrow, who knows? I've deleted a few things. But I think my track record for not deleting what I posted is way bigger.

Okay back to it, so off I went having slain the dragon again and another dragon came nonetheless. After that dragon, frankly the fire was too hot and too much and the dragon won. So I fell down and down and down until I landed into all I have left is writing to survive. Literally, survive. Yep that last dragon took away everything and all I had was my computer, literally. I don't even have an ID anymore but police don't look at people like me. For those that think it's my color they are wrong, it's my age. They stop hassling you once you grow older because young people, you are for the most part the trouble makers and the start to real criminals, so police focus on you.

That's two Okays, so I won't be doing another one. Okay, wait, why does that word keep popping up? Do I want your acceptance, approval? Of course I do, I'm a writer, without you the last thing on earth I can do will lead to nothing and nowhere.

But what have I learned almost one year; I am literally close to my January 29th one year anniversary at being an indie author. First, you need marketing money, when I had it my success was going through the roof and when I didn't they went to crickets.

So I am going to finish my science fictions series that I'm working on now and almost to the end of book two, and then I am going to write screenplays. I need less money to enter contests for screenplays then it takes to keep up the marketing on books every month. It doesn't mean I won't write more novels, it just means I am taking a break from writing novels. I need to get back what was wrongly ripped from me by criminals that had zero morality as no criminal has. Maybe they do if they are ever reformed, but they surely don't when they are still engaged in being a criminal.

I digress again so yah i might delete this tomorrow No tags, no push, just this post, my writers rabbit hole fueled by chemicals as well as society and my own messed up experiences. Can't believe  kid who was 15 became a school shooter today it makes me want to drop everything and go around to schools and tell my story of not giving up despite the odds and always being in the fight no matter what happens. That is the writer's life too so I fit right in with this group.

Working on my next project a Science Fiction series novel.

I am really excited to be on book two of my next release that will be a Science Fiction novel series. I was planning on three books but not sure yet, it might be two. I am not a planner I write and decide where it goes while I write. If you think that's crazy so did Ray Bradbury so my method is in good company.

It's coming along great I love the story and I have a great idea on the book format. I will also be writing the first piece of this novel as a spec script and probably submitting it to competitions or ???

It's been harder to keep focused this week because my comedy script was performed live and I will be getting the video by the end of this week! I can't wait to see it of course and I will be sharing it here and everywhere else I am active on the internet including social media and forums happily.

After being a victim of a significant crime finding my new purpose has been a journey and every instance of almost giving up because I don't have tons of marketing money, ends up with another writing success that pushes me onward. I am glad that since my ads have been down though my stats on Amazon have been plummeting, in individual categories they are staying strong. Hopefully soon I can pay Amazon and get my ads rolling again because when they were, the books were rocking up the charts.

Whatever happens I accept this as my new destiny. It actually started here, writing was my passion from a very very young age but my upbringing was anti-art as a viable career option. I acquiesced but oddly enough I might in the end thank the criminals who with their crime against me got me writing fiction again as my only survival tool.  I sure hope so. Thanks for listening to my rant.

The result of the Script Pipeline contest are in..

PDPics from Pixabay 

After seeing an ad for a free screenplay contest from Script Pipeline I wrote a thriller script and entered it. I didn't get to the quarter finals but there were 5500 entries! But yesterday I found out Script Pipeline scored my script and that score was put up on CoverFly. CoverFly is the site I submitted my screenplay to Script Pipeline through.

I was amazed that my first script got a high score and high enough to rank it #3 for Thriller TV 1/2 hour for the week, #3 for Thriller TV 1/2 for the month and #4 Thriller TV 1/2 hour for the YEAR!

That news has solidified my path as a writer as I was having my doubts after I couldn't afford to keep up the big money advertising that was increasing my reads and sales exponentially but without it's crickets.  I am on Chapter 8 on my latest science fiction novel and this week will be jumping back in. In just a couple of weeks from now the video of my other script a Comedy TV 1/2 hour will be coming out and I can't wait to see it and share it with everyone.

So just before the precipice seemed too high to climb, great news came in to keep me writing full time. So thanks Script Pipeline and thanks CoverFly, whatever I write next and from this day forward you will get the credit for keeping me motivated to do it.

A BIG Thank you to NFReads.com

I was happy to be invited to do an interview for NFReads.com they had very different questions. They are a great site so check them out. If you would like to check out my interview go here : https://www.NFReads.com/interview-with-author-w-l-wright/.

To all the impatient indie authors

Like me, heck like most of us, we want a quick result. But don't blame yourself, I'm not, because that is what seems should happen given what we all have seen before becoming an indie author.

I read a post on Goodreads a few weeks ago and it talked about the "successful plan" that a big publisher enacted to get a new book to soar once it was released. The article was written as if any one of us could replicate it but on it's face that wasn't true. First, they had massive connections already established with a giant herd of those that "write reviews". They also had the cash to send all the books out to everyone of them and tens of thousands of dollars to do even more advertising announcing the reviews they received before the actual launch from their established network.

My heart sunk when I read this, it seemed the odds were against indie authors like me that don't have stacks of cash like big publishers do, or the large network of those that given a book will not only review it but also publish that review in a significantly large circulation publication. 

In time and thinking more about it I realized that being an indie author that is making sales and getting reads regularly on all my books is a stellar magnificent achievement because it didn't have that large net of publicity and still my books are making it. It's been now almost 8 months since I launched as an indie author and at this point my books get reads and sales every day even without Amazon reviews.

I am at chapter five on my next novel and ultimately decided I would write the novel before I write the screenplay. The reason I decided that is because it's my roots and though writing screenplays is fun and I did finish two of them, it's time to return to the novel. When the novel is done and launched I will write the screenplay for it, I think.

So if you are an indie author that like all of us have those moments of wondering whether you can ever get there being indie, you can. It takes longer because we don't have stacks of cash but if you have a good story those stories will be found by readers. Just keep at it so they can all find your great book!

I've decided to jump ship for a while but it's not what you think.

Phew! It's Thursday and I have been on a long writing binge and just coming up for air now. I have jumped the ship of writing novels for a bit and wrote a few scripts. A contest that was free to enter, which is a real rarity, inspired me to write the first one. The I wrote another one and I have to say I really like it.  So I am going to turn the science fiction novel I am writing into a script instead. I might change my mind, who knows? Not even I do because in this life there is no set script, set story, I am making it all up as I go along.

Another Great Review Came in This Week!

Got another great review this week on Return to Limerick from a Twitter user = "I enjoyed the way it was written. Made quite a mystery to keep the reader involved. I gave it to one of my children to read to their grandchildren while enjoying it themselves!"

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In Case You Missed It...

Did you miss the Chat and Spin Radio interview? No problem you can hear it here on my WordPress site.

Cheers to Chat and Spin Radio that helps artists get exposure that is so important to all of us!

Iolon Star, The Earthlings and Return to Limerick are hitting the airwaves this Saturday! 7-13!

The journey for my novels continues and now they are going to be on the radio! The UK radio station Chat and Spin will be airing the quickie interview where I got to send my novels over the airwaves and its blasting out on July 13th Saturday at 12:20 pm PST. You can hear it by going to chatandspinradio.com or if you miss it you can go to their Facebook page on Sunday to hear it!

It was a lot of fun and it did take me more than one take but only two so I am happy about it and I think they were too since they invited me back when my next science fiction novel is done!

Every Writer Loves to See This

Traveling back across the country has put a hold on me continuing to write my next novel so I have put the time I have into promoting the novels I have published before leaving to drive another 700 + miles before I am back in Nevada.

But I realized during this time not only a significant increase in Kindle Unlimited readers but also that they are reading it with lightening speed and not putting it down! That's every writer's wish, hope and dream for any novel, to grip the reader so they don't want to stop reading. So seeing that reality with Iolon Star has been really great and making this long drive across the country an extra boost of happy.

Once again thanks readers!

Back in the writing saddle...a sneak peek

Well everyone, I am back to writing full time and right now in the middle of my fourth chapter of my next science fiction novel. I am adjusting the chapter a bit because I love to keep the action going in all my novels. I gave the details of the first few to a few people and they were mesmerized with the story as I told it and loved it wanting more = always a good sign.

Long way to go to finish it of course but so far we have a mixture of aliens and a trio of elite human space force characters that are saving aliens. Can't say more about it just yet because there are so many writers out there and I want to keep the plot line secret so it's not heisted before I finish it.

Sales are still above average so I am pleased with that and love watching people on Kindle Unlimited go through my novels quickly which for me means they can't put it down for long. I am just 6 months into being an indie author and people are getting to know my writing which is the biggest challenge for any indie author.

I am sticking with being only available on Amazon because they are the biggest seller online of books and their support is stellar. I appreciate every single reader of my novels and am grateful to each of them. Without readers there would be no writers, no authors and you can't tell a long novel story around a campfire. So keep reading and I will keep writing so that you will enjoy getting away to another planet, another dimension of time, another world for a while.

The story continues...last chapter

For those following this story as is typical in abusive situations denial is present by those being abused. Anyone that brings it to the forefront generally is fought as being wrong because the one being abused has difficulty facing it. Shame, embarrassment, failure and other thoughts run through the mind of those being abused because they have been set up to doubt themselves and this truth by the abuser.

In my life I have met two women that lost their daughters to violent abusers and they tried everything to detach their daughters to the abusers before they met their terrible fate. The abuse I am talking about is emotional but it is still abuse.

For everyone that is dealing with abuse in a relationship you in the end must save yourself and love yourself enough to do it. It's not easy for anyone and you have to be strong but once you are out of it you will see that life is always better. Whether you have kids or not, you should not stay in an abusive relationship. It is not real love and never will be though most abusers will tell you they love you deeply especially after abuse has happened.

Life is long, but not long enough to sustain abuse in a relationship. If you are experiencing abuse in your relationship get out as a better life without abuse awaits you. You will be more successful, happier and realize fully that you are worthy of happiness. If you have kids they will be happier too and be grateful to you for saving them.

I being someone who experienced it in my own life and witnessed it recently with a loved one have done what I can and stood up against it. I am now in the backlash of my dear one being mad that I have said anything at all about it. But I know the truth of abuse and know I did the right thing. Now it's up to them to save themselves and hopefully they will before they waste too many years trying to make a bad relationship into a good one and that of course will never happen as it never will be with abusive relationships.

An Explosion of Epic Porportions

After weeks of helping family life exploded into a reality that no one wants to see. It felt good every step of the way doing what I knew as the right thing, a good deed, for all the right reasons. If life was simple, outside of tearing time away from my writing career, it would have been a fairy tale existence. Then a dark truth appeared, first slowly in small ways and the kind of ways you shrug and say nothing because you aren't sure or you don't want to see that or it's just not enough to react. Finally the bomb comes, a great big huge nuclear explosion of truth that hit me in the gut so hard I am trying to recover from it still.
Abuse is happening and that abuse is hurting too many dear hearts to me and I did what I had to do, I stood up against it, said no to it and now I am hoping the one that really needs to put an end to it will. Abuse isn't pretty, funny, it isn't clever, it is a great darkness that needs courage and strength to escape. I am only hoping that the ones that need to escape it have that strength. I can't do it for them, they have to do it themselves. I can only show them what you do when that same abuse is directed at me, stand up and say no to it and show them the truth of it.
I am sticking around to remain a support even though part of me wants to run away from it now. But I won't,  I will stay strong and help by staying around, which the abuser doesn't want of course. Writing is my passion so I am returning full time to writing while I am hoping being a guiding light can break my dear ones free.

The Brutal Truth

As much as I want my author life to be ad hoc and unrelated to my own efforts to getting my books to readers but I have been hung up helping dear family. But I wouldn't change a thing because it is joyful to help and it is important and valiant. If you have a chance to do good go do it. It will take a sacrifice of some kind, but what you get back from it is beyond your dreams. But soon I will have more time to get to my next book that I have already started.

The Struggle is Real

It's Friday and it's been a while since I sat down and started writing my next novel. Not because I don't want to, not because I don't have the inspiration, but because moving across the country and driving over 2000 miles leaves you too tired to write and I'm still in recovery.

I have a great idea for my next and science fiction is the definite path since the idea involving genetics is in that genre. I hope to get started soon on it and maybe just doing this post will get me there. I hope so since writing is my life and I remain forever Indie.

Thanks to all those who have been reading my novels and if you could leave a review of the story you read you would help me in the struggle that is very real for every writer.  Writers from big publishing houses have the advantage of big time presses ready and willing to review whatever book they are given. Indie authors rely on the public's graciousness in providing a review. So don't forget to leave a review for Indie authors including me. :)