Steve Chiarelli’s Blog

June 3, 2009

It’s been awhile…

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , , , , — steve @ 11:10 am

I’ve been spending well over a month ignoring this blog, but not without good reason. Life has been hectic, house, health and work all taking up more shares of the time available to do the lesser priority parts which are tossed to the wayside and put in the ‘I’ll get to that sometime soon’ pile. And then I decided to try the Twitter thing and that has proven to be so much easier, writing 140 characters instead of paragraphs like this one. But I have been writing pretty steadily and right now I’m probably two thirds through the first draft of my next book, currently titled Muckydum (but that can still change). If you have the time check me out on Twitter :

http://twitter.com/stevechiarelli

—-I’m also trying a little experiment with twitter. I have made accounts for two of my characters from The Connected and have done posts for them starting from the beginning of the book. Currently I plan to take the posts right through to the end of the book, unless of course my time again gets squeezed or if at some point I determine that the experiment is an exercise in futility.

You can find them here:

http://twitter/com/RichardKerrBook

—-and

http://twitter/com/GaryFranksBook

—-I have begun to revamp my website - it’s been neglected more than this blog. I figure that’s probably going to be a one or two month project.

Until next time I look at my blog and realize it’s been awhile…

P.S. : This Wordpress is not an easy blog to use. No matter how I set up the paragraphs when I’m writing it they just don’t stay the same when they uploaded. I may have to switch to something else eventually. I can’t afford to fiddle around with this for an hour. - Just needed to get that off my chest:)

April 17, 2009

Update

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , , , , , — steve @ 10:42 am

It’s funny. I’m now, what I consider, deep into writing this second novel and the story keeps evolving in my mind. Several times I have had to go back through previous chapters and enhance them to include new twists and added characters as the synopsis of the original story I sat down to write has changed. This happened to me on the first novel also, but somehow it’s not quite the same. The Connected was completely written and then I did a rewrite and added 20,000 words, mostly because the original was too brief and didn’t allow for the characters to grow. Now The Connected was speculative fiction (science fiction to most though I’m not that scientific) and the new novel Muckydum is more down to earth, about life on Earth, but with Muckydum the story is expanding as I write it. What started out as a simple character study now has expanded to two main characters with two others that have become major influential characters. Right now I have to go back into chapter 2 and add some more to supplement another plot twist near the end of the book.
I would love to write some more short stories right now, I have had some ideas, but right now I’m too engrossed in this novel. As soon as I have the first draft completed maybe then I can get a couple of short stories down before returning to the novel for the second draft.
Take care.

January 25, 2009

You Tube Video Up

Filed under: What's Happening — Tags: , , , , — steve @ 10:11 am

I just posted the book trailer for The Connected on You Tube. It’s under the user The Indy Author.

If any new authors would like to post their own book trailers under TheIndyAuthor banner drop me an email and I will upload it to You Tube and send you the link.

Watch it now!!

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