What to Do, What to Do, What to Do? My now WEEKLY blog

I tweet, I blog daily, I have a weekly blog-story.  I am participating in #5MinuteFiction and #SaturdayShorts  I run a daily blog of Original Quotes by me which is somewhat associated with my Threadless T-Shirts Account where I routinely submit slogans for their Type Tee designs and am an active member or the Official Slogan Club.  I finished 365 days of Sloganeering too.

Wow! How the hell did I stretch my writing so far?

I really have to be sure that I don't loose focus of what I am really trying to do which is finish something that I have been writing, be it "Richard Babcock and the Hollywood Starlette" or "Framed" or perhaps even "To Beat the Band".

I think it's great that I have made all of these connections, especially through Steve Umstead's #pubwrite (buy his E-Book Gabriel's Redemption) as well I now have six followers of this blog!  I'm learning so much about publishing, dos and don't of writing and just very interesting stuff about other peoples writing lives.  Fantastic!

I have people that would be interested in reading my work, potentially contacts with agents, thoughts on what to do in terms of publishing.  I have tons of places to get my name out and to put out short stories for competitions.

Fantastic! Except...

I have nothing.  Well almost nothing.  I have "Counting Down the Storm" my novella which is currently only in paperback form of which I only have a few copies left.  I really need to get it into e-book form as I really can't afford to have another run printed (yeah, I self-published it).

Now what I really need is to finish something new and here is how I am going to acomplish this.

• Focus on only one story.
• This is my biggest weakness, too many irons in the fire.  I am currently working on "Richard Babcock..." and that is all (with the exception of #5MinuteFiction and #SaturdayShorts.)
• #6amWriters- A Twitter Group that I am attempting to form.  So far I am the only one but I pretend there are more to keep me accountable.
• The purpose is to get up at 6am and write until I have to leave for work or on the weekend, the family gets up and harasses me.
• Generally an hour to an hour and a half.
• During this time, no internet, NONE! or tweeting
• It has to be on ONLY one WIP
• My goal is to write no less than 800 words and preferably >1000
• #1KaDay- Another twitter group that focuses on writing 1000 words each and everyday.
• Stop blogging this blog daily
• I am going to limit this to once a week.  I think that Mondays are a good day for it.
• Not take on any other writing projects unless:
• They Make me Money (Prize money kind of okay)
• I have something outlined that would fit the criteria
• Preferably both

Hope this works.  I feel a bit like I put the cart before the horse so to speak but what the hell.  Maybe I'll become really good friends with an influencial person and they will name drop me and I will get a million dollar book deal before I have even finished anything.

Which reminds me, I recently got pregnant while riding on a flying pig over atlantis and being chased by a Monster Army of Yeti Cyborgs!  Wow, that was a day.....

Thanks for Reading
D. Ryan Leask

And Please, Please do not ever use this line:
Sparkling like a vampire in the sunlight