“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.” - that Shakespeare guy.

Here’s a little inspiration for you all. I felt like playing around with some graphics, so I created this just for you. Yes, I can make images to order.

Well, a few weeks ago I added Project Wonderful to all my blogs, and at first it was really exciting to be approving all these adds every day, and slowly seeing the cents accumulate. However, recently it seems to  have faded out to a tiny trickle, despite the traffic to my blogs improving. I have to assume that something screwy is going on with the PW advertisers.

1. First option is that they’ve all gone broke. That’s fair enough, but they certainly didn’t go broke bidding on any of my blogs.
2. They’re on holiday over the weekend. I wonder why I’m not?
3. They wouldn’t know what an increase in traffic looked like if it poked them in the eye. Read the rest of this entry »

Some of you know that I do paid posting work for KickstartYourForums, and occasionally I write articles for the same company. I’m perfectly fine with being paid to make high quality posts or forums, comments on blogs or even write the articles for other people’s blogs, but when it comes to writing something for someone that isn’tgoing to stay on the Internet but possible actually get into print, I start to wonder whether I actually should.

When I was 13 years old I started writing a book of my own. It was a fiction story with magic and dragons and adventure and all that sort of stuff. It was about 80,000 words when it was finished the first time, and I printed it out and bound it with wood to be a nice achievement. I then went and wrote four sequals (of 120,000 words each) the next year. I had two books half finished before I started to lose my muse, and went back to re-write the first book again as a 17-year-old with all the experiences and knowledge I had again (like how to use adjectives).

One day I plan to finish re-writing that first book for the fourth time and getting it published in real, hard copies. If I have time before I die, I’ll finish the other 8-12 books and get them published too.

So I’m squirming over writing the chapters of this book that I’ve been hired to do, because I’m almost certain that I’m not going to get any credit for it. Then if it does get published (possibly even becoming a best seller), I will have written large parts of it and nobody will know except me, and the ‘author’.

For now though, I suppose I’ll just write the thing and see how it goes.