Project Static

Project Static

Ladies and Gentlemen, the madness that is Static has begun. Click and gaze upon a revolution in the way books are written!

Seriously, just have a look at this cool project I’m working on now. It’s the first fully internet based collaborative book.

Keep an eye on us: we’re going to be big.

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Cheers,

Jared

A New Project

Last night I was doing my usual banter with South African author Wogan May when he asked an interesting question. It’s a little too early in the morning for me to remember it exactly, but to paraphrase, he basically said, “You know what would be cool? If we could do a collaborative book.”

So, thus, a new writing project was born. But not just an old project, no, not with us at the helm of an idea.

We’re not using the old fashion style of paper, pencils and pens.

We’re not even going to be using the likes of Microsoft Word either.

We’ll be using a three-way combo of googleTalk, googleDocs and Skype. Once done with the novel’s post work, we’ll be self-publishing on through the highly-acclaimed internet based publishing house Lulu.

We think this is the first novel to be developed, written and published completely by way of internet.

So there you have it.

Right now we’re developing the plot through googleDocs. Make sure to pay attention to my youtube channel, so I’ll start updating it as soon as possible.

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Cheers,

Jared

I’m now on Youtube

So I’ve been entertaining the idea of making a Youtube channel about becoming a writer for quite some time. Today, I finally went through and got one.

You can reach it by clicking here.

I’ll be trying to update everyday, and it’s going to be an in depth look at what it takes to become a writer and my long road ahead in regards to being published.

Hopefully it’ll become something big, but only if you guys help me out!

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Cheers,

Jared

Committing A Writing Sin

Confession Time!

 

Forgive me, for I have committed a writing sin…slightly.

 

Usually the smart thing to do before starting a story is to write down a plot and then edit said plot. My writing sin is that I didn’t write down the plot for “Invisible”.

 

Sure, I’ve got it chiseled in my mind, but even that isn’t enough. True, I’ve got some basic plot written down on paper in front of me, but it’s terribly disorganized. So last night, I finally got on with it. I really hate to keep plugging it, but it’s such a good system, it deserves another plug, as this realization that I had not written down my plot was spurred on by reading the article “7 Steps for Better Writing” on Wogan May’s wordpress blog.

 

So to read it, click here.

 

Shameless plug? Why yes, it is.

 

“Invisible” now looks to be a real story.

 

The a total planned word count is 120,000 with 30 chapters, allowing me 4,000 words a chapter. My aim of total words written per day is a minimum of 500. I’d much rather like to start at a minimum of 1,000 words per day, but with a job like mine (and I’m not complaining about it either! It’s awesome!) I’d much rather like to figure out how to manage writing time before jumping into the deep end.

 

A simple plot map has been my top priority since beginning it last night. Currently it sits at eight chapters, so I’m almost a third of the way done! Hopefully I’ll have it completed by this weekend. I’m off all next week, so if I finish it in time, I can begin to drill out my words per day.

 

Other than that, progress has been coming along with the regular swerving to avoid potholes.

 

I’m now using potholes as metaphors for situations in which nothing seems to fall onto the page?

 

Wait, am I even using potholes as metaphors?

 

Shows how much I know.

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Cheers,

Jared

“7 Steps for Better Writing” by Wogan May

Today, I’m letting my good friend Wogan May take over my blog. He wrote a brilliant article called “7 Steps for Better Writing”. It’s aimed at Digimon based fan-fiction since we both write in that area, but it can be applied to every other form of writing.

 

So if you’re thinking about starting up in the wonderful world of literature, check it out.

 

Click here for the article.

 

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Cheers,

Jared