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Hi all, I did not do much writing last week because my computer continued to act up. It taunted me by sometimes working, sometimes not. When I was not fiddling with or shouting at my computer, my writing time was taken up by editing chapter thirty-eight of my novel. I then got 800 words into chapter thirty-nine, with the characters finally landing on the planet. I have now written 78,589 words of my epic.  So will my epic become a best-seller? British writer and critic Robert McCrum says that writers hoping to write a best-seller “might as well stand in a field during a thunderstorm and hope to be struck by lightning”. Well, when I was younger I once played golf at Trafalgar golf course during a thunderstorm. Huge power lines hang over the Trafalgar golf course, but I was not struck by lightning. But at that stage I was failing English at school. Years later, when I lived in Sydney and worked in research in education, my flat was hit by lightning and it burnt out half th...

Hi all, I am only two days late with my weekly post this week. Could my near punctuality be a sign that I am getting my writing under control and my computer isn’t acting up? Or I am just ignoring some writing activities? It’s a bit of all three. Amazon’s KDP Select. In a post a couple of weeks ago I mentioned Amazon’s KDP Select program in relation to its Lending Library. Members of Amazon Prime can download a free ebook a month from Amazon’s library. For an author to place an ebook in the library, they must offer Amazon exclusivity to that ebook for 90 days. In December authors were paid $1.70 each time one of their books was lent. I reckon that payment will decrease over time. But there are other potential benefits in being part of KDP Select for an author. David Kazzie, in a blog post titled How Amazon’s KDP Select Saved My Book , writes that his ebook sales skyrocketed after joining KDP Select. He says Amazon allowing him to give the ebook away for free for ...

Hi all, I’ve been busy writing and critiquing and marvelling at how many different problems my computer says it has. My computer was obviously designed by a politician, as it just can’t settle on any issue. It sometimes stalls when starting. I think it just needs a good cup of coffee dumped onto its CPU. New Article for Divine. I have been researching an article on free and cheap transport to medical appointments for people with disabilities. I’ve made lots of phone calls and left many messages, and only a few of these messages were returned. I guess the people who did not ring back were too busy leaving reminder messages for other people after they failed to call back.   Freelancer.com: What a Rip-off. I have been looking at freelance writing sites and one has confirmed my fears about most online writing jobs being total rips offs. On www.freelancer.com.au  I have seen jobs requiring 30 articles of 500 words with a pay rate of $30-$250 for the lot. Anot...