After struggling with 2 documents for different reasons (an old Word.doc from 2004 and a brand new OpenOffice.doc typed on 2 different PCs), I think I know what the problem is. In spite of having the same version of OpenOffice on Desktop and Laptop, they don’t work the same way. Desktop (Old Guy) can’t accept [...]
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Writer Wednesday
Posted by Barb on May 16, 2012
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/writer-wednesday-15/
Writer Wednesday
First I’ll send you to Smashwords blog for a post on new viral catalysts. I’m also reading Mark Coker’s Secrets to e-publishing success, but I’ll do a full review when I’m done, LOL. Well, I’ve read the part where Mark Coker credits Joleene Naylor for his new cover… I should hire her for my future [...]
Posted by Barb on May 2, 2012
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/writer-wednesday-13/
Writer Wednesday
First of all, please hop to Jonathan’s blog to hear me rambling again. If you remember, Jonathan was interviewed last year on this blog when I read his book Fiddlerbugs. He was kind enough to let me read his longer work Magnus Opum before release, and I absolutely loved it! That mix of Lewis Carroll [...]
Posted by Barb on April 11, 2012
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/writer-wednesday-10/
Writer Wednesday
First of all, please hop to Madison’s blog as she was kind enough to let me ramble about my experience with self-publishing so far. It’s a good preview of the non-fiction book I might end up writing one day, LOL! Anyway, an excellent post to make an informed decision about which way to publish is [...]
Posted by Barb on April 4, 2012
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/writer-wednesday-9/
Writer Wednesday
I shall open this post with Kris Rusch analysis of the publishing world in her excellent post about Scarcity and Abundance. I think there is abundance indeed, which is good for readers, but can be very frustrating for writers. A Goodreads author “retires” from the marketplace after four books on KDP, burned out by his [...]
Posted by Barb on March 21, 2012
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/writer-wednesday-7/
Writer Wednesday
Elizabeth May’s self-editing steps sent me in a Wordle spree with some of my novels – the published ones, so I’m not really using it to self-edit! As you might know, I write character-oriented adult fantasy, and from this Wordle you can see who my favorite character in Air was: In Earth I more or [...]
Posted by Barb on February 29, 2012
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/writer-wednesday-4/
Writer Wednesday
Kris Rusch spoke of the sneaky growth (very sneaky in my case, but I’m not despairing yet! ) and Dean Wesley Smith of the reasons for a Trade Paper Edition, for which personally I don’t see a reason yet. Yes, I’m still with Lulu (since 2009) and sold 3 books (one print and 2 PDF [...]
Posted by Barb on February 22, 2012
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/writer-wednesday-3/
Writer Wednesday
Smashwords has been down most of yesterday and KDP isn’t that fast in making books public, but finally before dinner I was able to upload also on Smashwords. Except they were backlogged, so I didn’t manage to see the titles go live before going to bed. I might have to update with the links today, [...]
Posted by Barb on February 15, 2012
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/writer-wednesday-2/
Writer Wednesday
So, I had my “formatting weekend” and managed to upload the BoI on XinXii (see the nifty little button on the side-bar?), first PDF only, then I added mobi and epub files generated with calibre. Have no idea of how they look, but well… Europe, here I am. I’m also slowly uploading to DriveThruFiction before [...]
Posted by Barb on February 1, 2012
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/writer-wednesday/
Writer goals
I’d like to start this post with a few links that look back at 2011 and forward to 2012 before I comment on them. David Gaughran’s Self-publishing Year in Review Dean Wesley Smith looking back and keeping the writing going Smashwords year in review 2011 My 2011 in review: I could give a list of [...]
Posted by Barb on January 11, 2012
http://creativebarbwire.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/writer-goals/
My name is Barb, and I'm a writer, sometimes an artist, mostly a world-creator and storyteller of fantasy worlds. I have more than one pen-name and write in more than one genre.
I blog about life, the universe... OK, you can guess I'm a writer, but not Douglas Adams, so I'll leave the Hitchhiker's Guide aside. And no, I'm not going to spam you by only rambling about my books - if you're interested, just go to the dedicated pages, thank you.
This is my blog, about the "creative barbwire" that I am - there's no rose without thorns, right?
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