Steven E. Wedel

Steven E. Wedel

Author – Editor – Teacher

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  • February 2, 2023

    February Goals

    January was a month of writing. First Born, begun on November 1, had to be finished, and then Dust in the Wind had to be written (I’d only written the first chapter beforehand). February will be a month of editing. One thing I forgot to mention in my last post was the OWFI contest. A […]

  • February 1, 2023

    January Report Card

    The first month in the year I hope to go full-time as an author has passed. It was not the launch I was hoping for. Despite my preparation, things just didn’t pop the way I’d hoped. You’ll remember a couple of weeks ago I posted a list of things I wanted to accomplish in January. […]

  • January 19, 2023

    January Goals

    I’m writing this on January 18, so it might be cheating. Mostly it’s procrastinating. One thing I’ve learned on this quest to become a full-time author is that the non-writing stuff is tedious and takes a ton of time. Nonetheless, here are the goals for this month. That seems like a lot, I guess, particularly […]

  • January 18, 2023

    2022 Books in Review

    I set my 2022 reading goal to the usual 50 books, but fell well short. I might have forgotten to record some, but if so, not many. The total books read on record is only 25. The end of the year was dominated by books about marketing novels. This is where I think I lost […]

  • December 1, 2022

    NaNoWriMo2022 Completed

    About 20 minutes ago I reached the end of chapter 29 on a novel I’m not calling First Born. That put me at 50,258 words, which made me a winner of NaNoWriMo for the third straight year. It’s been an interesting and enlightening month of writing and reading and listening to podcasts about marketing. When […]

  • November 18, 2022

    NaNoWriMo2022

    Last November 17, I crossed the 50,000-word mark on a literary book I call Yes or No and won NaNoWriMo for the second year, giving me a perfect 2-of-2 record. (I wrote Mother for NaNoWrimo2020.) Tonight I reached 26,647 words. There are a few reasons for the slower progress. The biggest one is the day […]

  • October 29, 2022

    I miss the SASE

    I began submitting manuscripts in the mid-1980s. It was all horror. Mostly short stories; novel submissions didn’t begin until the early 1990s. I think. But it’s been a while, so maybe I was sending out The Prometheus Syndrome in the late ’80s. Anyway … I’d put the story (or sample chapters) into the big tan […]

  • October 17, 2022

    Help me decide…

    In my continuing quest for employment independence, I’m considering creating a Patreon. What is that? Well, here’s a video that will explain it better than me, but basically, patrons sign up to give me money each month and in exchange I give them free stuff, advance looks, advice, etc. For a really good example, look […]

  • October 8, 2022

    1st Progress Report

    In my quest to become self-employed by June 2023, I have made a few small steps forward. There’s nothing major to report yet, as there is a lot of prep work, but I have accomplished a little, so I thought I’d share it. I have created a spreadsheet listing all of my published titles under […]

  • October 1, 2022

    Quest for Independence

    Teaching has lost its luster. I’m not actually teaching. My job, really, is to maintain a tenuous grip on sanity as I battle the chaos that is a room full of 8th graders. It’s stressful. It’s unfulfilling. It’s hell! I fully suspect this will be my last year in education, and that’s IF I make […]

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