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FREEBIES

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What is the point of writing? Over the last week or two, I had got back into the habit of writing after a long time off, and I was enjoying it again.   Then, reality hit in, all people care about is getting something for FREE, even I have to virtually give my e-books away to earn a few cents per sale.

Can I get motivated?

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Will the e-book bring me the sales I need? If I ever needed to  motivation , now is the time.   This month, I have laid out a lot of expenses in an attempt to sell my  e-books , and if something doesn't happen, I will not only be destroyed as a  writer , but I will be in such a state financially I doubt I'll recover this year.

Oy vey

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All for the price of a cup of coffee I keep asking why I should spend hours editing my short story selection of stories when none have sold other than my science fiction ? I am thinking of doing what I would never have supposed of before now, becoming a genre writer . Given a choice, I would have chosen ghost stories to write , but the style I like is not what sells as I prefer Gothic Horror, such as Cherie Priest writes, rather than the undead, not zombie , fiction which sells. Strictly speaking, "zombie fiction" has nothing to do with zombies. Zombies are people put in a trance by a voodoo high priest. They may have risen from the grave, but they look nothing like the films depict. There is a documented case of a man who lived in the state of a zombie for over 20 years in the USA . When he came out of the trance, he had no recollection of the decades he had lived through. My current project is two-fold as I am trying to rewrite one romance novel  while adding a second st...