FREE Special Report: 365 Writing Prompts For Articles, Short Stories and More

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I am offering a free copy of 365 Writing Prompts for Articles, Short Stories and More in PDF format for all of my readers.

There is a link to this document on the Free Writing Prompts page here on the blog. It will stay there so you can get to it whenever you like. You can also download it.

Enjoy! And I hope you get many usable ides from the document.

Shannon L. Buck

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My Most Recent Short Story: The Shack

THE WOODS AT DUSK 1 (Photo credit: A QUIVERFUL OF FOTOS)

You may remember that I joined the NaNoWriMo Challenge last November, and competed it! The entire book of short stories, a collection called Tales from the Woods, is not yet complete, but I have begun the editing process just the same. This keeps me working on the book while I wait for inspiration

The Shack is just one of the stories in this collection. The other two stories are titled Alone and The Woods.

Enjoy!

Shannon L. Buck

Year 4 Fiction Goals

If you go down to the woods today… (Photo credit: c@rljones)

Year 4 Fiction Goals

To recap, I published a few short stories in 2011. I was very excited about this. Each of these stories will be published in one of three books of short stories, though each book will have many more stories as well. The stories can be found at:

The Haunted Dinner Party

“Be Careful of Those Woods”

Alone

Serenita

The Woman in the Woods

The Woods

One of these books is finished, barring a couple more edit runs, and I want to get it published during Year 4.

The second is about one-fourth complete, and I have my notes for stories that I want to add on it. This will take up the bulk of my fiction creativity this year , and I am excited to resume the project.

A third book of short stories will be worked on somewhat during Year 4, then (hopefully) finished in Year 5. This book includes stories outside my main genre, so is taking me more time than I originally thought. I am having fun with it, though.

Happy writing!!!!

Shannon L. Buck

Welcome to Year 4!

Last year was a big year for me, in many ways. I am very pleased with my accomplishments, that have set me up for a great Year 4

This year I start off being used to working with the two factors listed in the Year 3 Wrap Up

“Writing”, 22 November 2008 (Photo credit: dr_ed_needs_a_bicycle)

post, so I have a (somewhat) schedule and will be able to schedule more time for the writing of articles. Most of these will be written ahead of time, so they are ready when the time comes to publish them. For example, Halloween articles will be written in September and Thanksgiving ones in October. This puts me a little ahead of the game.

Most of my freelance income will likely come from revenue share opportunities around the web, starting with the many, many articles that have already been published. I will also add to the growing number of these articles each month.

I am looking to expand my opportunities for writing articles, and possibly eBooks, for others.

I want to concentrate on getting that first book of short stories published, as well as resume work on the next two books, and to look into what it takes to sell photographs online. I have much to do for both ventures, and am very excited.

A marketing/promotional plan for the first book of short stories (finished last year) will also be necessary, so I will be doing more research in how to go about those tasks. I am getting more and more excited for this, the more I learn.

This blog is another aspect of my freelance career that I will be working on. I am planning more eBooks, etc., as well as posts and challenges. I hope you will all enjoy what I put into it.

Have a great freelance year, no matter what it is that you do! I know I will

Shannon L. Buck

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Year 3 Wrap Up

Writing (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Wow. This past year brought many accomplishments. I am pretty pleased by this. I worked hard, even though I have had to work around not having home internet, and around working a ‘day job’. The list is a good one

• I created new blogs.

• I expanded on and updated existing blogs.

• I finished my first book of short stories.

• I published quite a few short stories online.

• I started my second and third books of short stories, as well as a few nonfiction ones.

• I have come up with a list, and descriptions, for quite a few new short stories.

• I have come up with a few story lines for novels, and am getting the outlines done.

• I have learned new marketing and promotion skills, though I still have a long way to go with this.

• I have researched traditional/online book publishing.

• I am still writing blog posts for Frugal Recipes: Spending Less to Eat Healthy and Living the Low-Income Life, Keeping in contact with fans, and trying to help as many people as I can both on the blogs and through email.

• I have fans

• I acquired a couple more channels to write for on Examiner.com, bringing me to three: Bangor Single Mom, Bangor Easy Cooking and Bangor Frugal Living. All of which are useful to those outside the Bangor area, as well as within.

• Etc., Etc.

My income from writing has gone down some due to two factors:

1. Having the day job. During mid spring to the beginning of winter, this job takes up a whole lot of time. However, winter and early spring brings me a little extra time off.

2. No at-home access to the internet. I have to work around the hours of two different libraries.

As for freelance writing… I am keeping up with this, but I also want to concentrate on fiction writing. I love writing stories.

And photography… still taking photos and planning to share some of them with you all this year.

All-in-all, I am pleased with my progress over the past year. Are you pleased with yours?

Shannon L. Buck