Some Random Thoughts

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I’m actu­ally writ­ing this while I’m in a social media class — unfor­tu­nately, most of the class is geared to com­mer­cial appli­ca­tions.  The good is that I talked three fel­low authors into tak­ing the class, so we can ask some ques­tions that apply only to authors and get answers.   The trou­ble for me with social media is that I’ve spent so much time on it in the last few months — learn­ing all the ins and outs — that my actual writ­ing has suffered.

So I think that I’ll devote one day a week to social media, as I have a face­book page (see the  lit­tle icon I finally got in the upper right hand cor­ner), and well as main­tain the face­book page for The New Year’s Eve Club.  And now I’m on Twit­ter (maybe I’ll even­tu­ally get that icon on this page).  Then I’ll devote the other days to actu­ally writ­ing.  Wish me luck.

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Today, I’m fea­tured at Writer Wednes­day on Priscilla Shay’s blog.  Every Wednes­day in May Priscilla is fea­tur­ing one of The New Year’s Eve Club author with an inter­view and a blub from their book.book-sarahs-cowboy

Read my inter­view and make sure to get to the end and read the blurb from SARAH’S CAOWBOY at http://priscillashay.com/blog/.

escape to the west with a roman­tic adventure…

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Sunday Afteroon Blog — April 28th

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Another week gone by and I spent most of it work­ing on the social media side of writ­ing.  For me the actual writ­ing is much eas­ier than hav­ing to learn all the tech­ni­cal stuff that required of writ­ers today.  Due to poor plan­ning on my part I ended up par­tic­i­pat­ing in not one, but two social Aidamedia forums and just keep­ing up with the lessons took all my writ­ing time.

So I’ve really updated my face­book page (and got the icon on this page in case you want to go and check it out).  My face­book will be par­tic­i­pat­ing in Teaser Tues­days where I not only post a ‘teaser’ of my own work, but with links to other author’s sites for their teasers.  A great way for read­ers to find authors and works they might like.  Also finally signed up for Twit­ter, which I’m still try­ing to work out the kinks – but I’m now fol­low­ing not only authors but my soc­cer blogs.  Haven’t fig­ured out how to get the icon on this page yet, but you can find me at https://twitter.com/TerryIreneBlain

I have the Social Media class at the local com­mu­nity col­lege tomor­row, so hope to get some of my ques­tions answered there.

To get away from the com­puter, went to the opera one evening to see Aida.  A ter­rific pro­duc­tion and such beau­ti­ful voices.  Then on Sat­ur­day it was the Corgi Meetup.  About 30 cor­gis and their own­ers and other dogs met at a local dog park.  Then we took a walk down the local trail (my bad, didn’t bet pho­tos – which is another thing I’m work­ing on).

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So it’s a nice sunny day here in SoCal, so I’m tak­ing the after­noon off to watch the base­ball game.  Then back to the com­puter and the ms. that’s been wait­ing for attention.

 

Arms and Armor of the Middle Ages

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Yes­ter­day, went to the local chap­ter of RWA for the meet­ing.  Morn­ing pro­gram an edi­tor and in the after­noon, the always inter­tain­ing and infor­ma­tive Scott Far­rell, founder of Chivalry Today who spoke on the weapons and armor of the Mid­dle Ages.  Even those of us not writ­ing Medievals, lots of good back­ground about the Age of Chivalry.  If you ever get a chance to see Scott speak, you won’t be disappointed.ScottFarrellBio

Still a WIP

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Well, I’m tak­ing that social media class, and learn­ing alot.  There are about 20 peo­ple in the class, and at least I’m ahead of some of them as I already have  web sit and a face­book page.  Actu­ally, two face­book pages, http://www.facebook.com/TerryBlainAuthor  for me and I actu­ally set up http://www.facebook.com/TheNewYearsEveClub  for our New Year’s Eve Club novellas.

Some day I’ll fig­ure out how to con­nect all these sites together — that’s the les­son I’m wait­ing for in the class.  Wish me luck!

In addi­ton to all the time I’m spend­ing on social media, I’m in a writ­ing chal­lenge this month and should be get­ting words in my cur­rent wip manuscript.

A WIP (Work In Progress)

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I’m all fired up after the SoCal Writer’s Conference. Since writ­ing is a soli­tary endeavor, it’s great to hang out with other writ­ers who can sym­pa­thize with you.  Who else wants to talk about POV (Point Of View), the black moment, goals and moti­va­tion of char­ac­ters, word count, etc?

The thing I want to con­cen­trate on most (besides writ­ing a good book) is the social media aspect of writ­ing since my books are ebooks.  So right now I’m work­ing to updat­ing this web­site.  In addi­tion to tak­ing an on-line class, next week I start a Social Media for Small Busi­ness class at the local com­mu­nity col­lege.  Since I spent most of my life in acad­e­mia, I tend to learn very well in an aca­d­e­mic set­ting.  I even talked a cou­ple of my author friends into tak­ing the class with me.

Wish me luck, and come back a see if I’m mak­ing progress.

What’s up with me today

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Ok, have just fin­ished the blog tour for SARAH’S COWBOY, and now have four 5 star review on Ama­zon Kin­dle site.  Check them out at http://tinyurl.com/aebfg8t .

This week­end I’ll be at the SoCal Writ­ers Con­fer­ence.  And, since I’m not very tech­ni­cal, I’ve signed up for a class to learn all the tech­ni­cal stuff I don’t yet know.  Bosco at One

Here’s a pic­ture that has noth­ing to do with any­thing, it’s just one of my favorites.  This is Bosco, who belongs to my daughter-in-laws par­ents.  Note that their house num­ber is ‘one’.