Comment Challenge!
I’m verging on hitting the 1/3rd point of the first draft of my novel now, I’ll probably hit it by the end of the week, and I can feel the momentum building. I’m proud of what I’m writing at this point, and I think I might even want to show some of the work in progress off. That’s where you come in, dear readers.
Here’s my challenge: I love traffic on this site, and I really love comments from the people who read it. You guys (and girls, though I don’t think I’ve had a female commenter that I can tell so far) have kept me motivated and dropped pearls of wisdom onto my blog more than once. So, because I like comments, and because some of you have an interest in seeing what I’m working on, each time a unique person comments on this post within the next five days, I will post 100 words from the novel I’m currently writing. So, the more interest I see happening about this book, the more I’ll tip my hand. It’s that simple. 5 comments means I’ll be posting 500 words next Thursday, July 30. There’s no upper limit to what I’ll post, so bring your friends along to my site to leave comments if you want to see more. If I get enough, hell, I might put up everything I’ve written to this point (though I doubt I’ll get 160+ comments, but one can dream).
So at this point, you’re wondering what to put in the comments you’re sending me. Well, I want to make those comments work for my readers as well. In the comment, ask me a question about myself, my writing, who I am, whatever. Pretty much anything that gets asked I’ll answer (except for you, yes, you out there wanting to ask me the sicko questions. I won’t be answering those…on this blog at least). No question is too mundane or too esoteric, so go for it. This is sort of a double whammy for all of you out there, since you get to know me a little bit better, plus you get to see what I’m working on.
And because I didn’t go to pitchman school for six years for nothing, wait, there’s more!
If I get ten comments on this post, I’ll publish a never before seen short story on this blog as well.
Alright, everyone, let’s get the comments rolling!
Now Free: My story “The Cleanup”
So, it looks like nobody on the Amazon Kindle marketplace found it in their hearts to buy my short story “The Cleanup” for the low, low price of $0.99. I understand, I’m not upset…if I could do it, I would have just given it away to everyone for free on the Kindle, but Amazon doesn’t allow you to set the price of a work at $0.00, as far as I can tell. But this post isn’t just about me complaining that nobody bought my story, even though I could complain about it for a while.
The failure of “The Cleanup” on the Kindle store is your gain, my readers. Since nobody would buy the thing, I decided to just give it away, in a nice little PDF that should work well for just about anybody. I do have a couple of stipulations about giving this tale away, though:
1) Link it on your site/blogroll/twitter as much as you’d like to. I love free publicity. I’d love it if you’d send your readers directly to my site, though, instead of just dropping the file onto your site, even if you attribute it to me
2) If you really like it, or even really hate it, leave me a comment on this page. I’m a beginning crime writer and I’m still learning the ropes of everything, so there will be rough spots, and I’d appreciate if anyone with more (or less) experience in writing this kind of stuff could give me some pointers.
3) The story is licensed under a Creative Commons license that allows for derivative works. This means you can do whatever you want to the story: make a short film of it, draw up a comic book based on it, or stage it as a play in your living room…anything. Do whatever you want with it…and if you do, I’d love to hear what you did with it, and chances are I’ll post whatever you do on this page and give you a little bit of free publicity.
Alright, with all that out of the way, I present to you: The Cleanup
The Cleanup by Sean May is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.