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Writing Update -aka why I've not been blogging much lately

2/8/2017

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Sorry I’ve not been blogging very much recently, but I just don’t have the time like I used to. I only have so many hours in the day and so I’m spending more time writing fiction and less time writing blog posts. To explain what else I’ve been doing, here’s a quick rundown of what I have been doing over the last 4 months or so writing-wise:

  • Weekly blogging of a story – The Trouble With Rent Boys – please hop over and check it out, share on social media, comment about what you think, I love to hear from readers!
  • Finished my tax return for the 2016/17 tax year. I try to keep good records during the year, so at the end it’s ‘just’ a matter of entering things into my spreadsheet and voila!
  • Organising a budget caravan writing retreat in Sussex in October. This is the third one I’ve organised, the first had 5 of us, the second had 4 and this time there’s… 8 of us, sharing two caravans. The last two weekends have left me feeling energised and having written between 12,000 and 15,000 words, all for under £100 all in.
  • Writing about 24,000 words or 6 chapters (3 per story) of two m/f category romances. They’re currently resting in their terrible first draft status before a damned good self-edit and then I'm sending them to some wonderful beta readers who know the genre they’re written in better than me.
  • Writing a 53,000 word clashing of worlds story (I wrote about 15,000 words in the last, Kentish caravan weekend in May) and self editing and getting it ready for submission. Still to be submitted.
  • Promoting the 16 September creating characters and conflict workshop in London that I’m running with Virginia Heath.
  • Self editing and submitting a male male romance story that’s set on an island in Europe.
  • Self editing and preparing to be submitted a gay fiction story that’s a spinoff from the Best Friends Perfect series. Still to be submitted yet.
  • Learning about self-publishing so I can re-release my back catalogue of stories that I’m now receiving my rights back.
  • Speaking to potential clients about ghostwriting their stories. I am open to new clients if you know someone who has a story to tell but doesn’t know how to put it down on paper.
  • I’ve also started writing articles for the Pink Heart Society which brings together readers and authors of romance. I’ve written articles on working with a copy editor, a report on the RNA Conference in Telford and a piece on whether they’re making more classic romcoms like Sleepless In Seattle and I recommend three modern classics.
Love and light,

Liam Livings xxx

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