I recently became a member of KindleBoards. They have a nice area for writers there called Writer’s Cafe. I’m learning a lot and I know that by being active there and on Amazon’s boards, I’ll increase my exposure and therefore my chance to do well once I release my books on Kindle.
However, it takes up a lot of time… time I could and probably should be spending working on my books. It’s just all so exciting; this is probably the most energized I’ve felt about my writing career since college. It’s stimulating to connect with other writers and it does encourage me to get plugging away.
I’m still assembling the core essays I’ve written over the last couple years that’ll make up my five-book series on the Torah, as well as the sermons that will be the basis for my book on Yeshua’s parables. But there will still be much work to do even after that’s done.
The fiction project is slower going; while I have the characters and the story figured out, it’s not flowing like some of my previous projects have. Perhaps it’s because I know this one is “for real” and will actually see the light of day. Either it’s making me nervous and cautious, or to excited to write. But once I actually discipline myself to open up the manuscript, it comes out in nice, 2,000-word chunks or so.
Working on too many manuscripts at once might also be the problem; once I get my six theological works assembled, I’m only going to focus on one at a time, plus my novel. But it takes a lot of time to assemble so many sermons and Torah commentaries.
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