As a writer, how do you keep going? What inspires you to push ahead when the writing is difficult? This week we will discuss where we find inspiration, what is some of the best advice we ever received, and when to ignore unsolicited advice. We will also look at what to do when life is overwhelming the writing and how to get back on track. Our special panelist this week is Percival Constantine. Percival has over a dozen titles to his name and has been publishing since 2005. You can check out his books here.
The show is set for another lively roundtable discussion. Please join us 7 PST/10 EST this Thursday on the Self-Publishing Roundtable.
About Percival Constantine: Currently, Percival lives in Japan’s Kagoshima prefecture, where he works as a literature and writing instructor at the Minami Academy. He also co-hosts the Geek Screen podcast, and is a contributing writer for WhatCulture.
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Carl Sinclair inspires me. I don’t what else you need.
He inspires me every day.
YAY, we have countdown!
Carl Sinclair You’ve found Carl Sinclair as well? I follow him. On Twitter. And Facebook. And all the heavenly social medias.
Hello all!
Percy!
Hola!
xgranville Bienvenido!
xgranville Can you scold my Internets? It is proving recalcitrant tonight, and is refusing to Internet.
MrJohnRead xgranville Como estas Senor Read?
xgranville MrJohnRead Muy Bien, Y tu?
MrJohnRead xgranville Bueno, gracias!
xgranville MrJohnRead Denada
Hello all!
CateMorgan xgranville Try the unplug, wait, and plug back in?
CateMorgan xgranville Dear Cate’s Internet: I hate your wires. I hate your digits. I hate your fucking infrastructure. I will melt you down T2 style if you don’t get a move on this instant!
David Anson Hey David!
xgranville David Anson Xavier! How are ya?
David Anson xgranville Decent sir! Glad to see you made it on time this week :p
JamesEThoenes xgranville Twice. Service is shoddy down here in ::REDACTED:: on a good day, but today is particularly crappy.
CateMorgan JamesEThoenes xgranville Bummer 🙁
xgranville I do believe that is the most wonderful thing I’ve ever read. Thank you. *happy*
MrJohnRead Thomas!
michelleread MrJohnRead Percy…
MrJohnRead Choo Choo!
MrJohnRead michelleread Oh….right. I knew that.
Tech supporting michelleread currently…
Hello everyone.
Robert Charles Evening
RolandDenzel Carl is a great inspiration.
MrJohnRead Robert Charles Hi John.
michelleread sexy
Robert Charles Hello Robert 🙂
Hi Michelle!
Robert Charles MrJohnRead Hi Robert 🙂
MrJohnRead michelleread You ARE!
I have no idea who Pervical is, but hello to you too!
michelleread MrJohnRead You two need a room
🙂
michelleread MrJohnRead Get a room.
Don’t forget to aerate your resilient weed
I pay people to aggressively destroy weeds in my garden.
Wait, what did I miss?…
JamesEThoenes michelleread MrJohnRead James wins first snort!
matmorrisauthor How was your live show??? John Read insists on being out of town so I didn’t get to watch.
Robert Charles Author with awesome name
michelleread matmorrisauthor It was really good… John hung out with us.
No Carl or Erica?
matmorrisauthor michelleread good times
michelleread JamesEThoenes MrJohnRead It was close
MrJohnRead saved the day! Thank you, dear. People almost didn’t get to see that I put in effort on Thursday face.
michelleread MrJohnRead xgranville is wearing his also
Wade has a book out now? Congratulations.
Robert Charles Wait, he does? I missed that.
Robert Charles Did he finish it?
matmorrisauthor Robert Charles The way he was talking seemed so?
Anytime Michelle texts me I assume she’s drunk. #truthbomb
matmorrisauthor Robert Charles Perhaps I misunderstood. It is late.
What is this show about?
Thanks! We had a ton of people jumping into the afterparty, actually, so I’m a little late.
Calling them names: Wade, Michelle, Percival, Xavier
Robert Charles Inspiration in various forms.
This might have actually been one of our podcasts where I talked the *least*.
JamesEThoenes Thank you – THANK YOU. Staying classy.
matmorrisauthor :-
JamesEThoenes Le gasp!
matmorrisauthor That sounds good.
Carl and I can have a troll-off.
matmorrisauthor He’s not here 🙁
matmorrisauthor It would be unending
Robert Charles matmorrisauthor The winner would be the same either way.
caffeine, B-vitamins, anti-anxiety pils, THEN alcohol.
Robert Charles matmorrisauthor Yes there’s a sad void on the web 🙁
matmorrisauthor Whoever wins the troll-off gets three goats aaaaaaand a new car!
CCWall You forgot hydrating! Hi CC 🙂
btw, don’t take my advice…
xgranville matmorrisauthor !!!!!!!!!! >.<
Morning. Did I miss anything? Unlikely but I felt i should ask.
michelleread CCWall that’s what the coffee is for!
michelleread JamesEThoenes I said them with a sneer.
Carl Sinclair Were your ears burning
JamesEThoenes michelleread :-
michelleread Carl Sinclair No, but something in my pants. I need to see a doctor…
Carl Sinclair We’re having a troll-off… you’re behind. Time to play catch-up.
michelleread I had to put the baby down to bed.
Carl Sinclair michelleread 0.o
xgranville said do-do
matmorrisauthor Carl Sinclair Shouldn’t be too hard. Who are these people?
matmorrisauthor Carl Sinclair Also, I missed your show. My bad.
xgranville and i guess i’m 5 years old now
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor Talking heads. Same every week. (Both the heads and what they say.)
matmorrisauthor I’ll probably enjoy it the most then : )
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor I did, too.
CCWall xgranville Well you’re not wrong
matmorrisauthor Carl Sinclair Books and the things with the words and stuff?
CCWall xgranville Welcome to the Michelle Read club!
Carl Sinclair CARL!
For inspiration, I’ve found every author I’ve met in person to be very inspirational.
Robert Charles Carl Sinclair Hey bobby!
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor I let Mimi Strong & Zach Bohannon carry the show. I just pointed them in directions and let them talk.
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor They’ve been hard on penises
JamesEThoenes Is that a lot of authors??
Carl Sinclair Robert Charles It’s Robert…
Robert Charles Carl Sinclair It’s whatever I decide it is : )
Carl Sinclair Robert Charles Sure. It’s also Robert…
Robert Charles Carl Sinclair You got it Bob.
Robert Charles Carl Sinclair You two are just fantastic together…
Carl Sinclair Robert Charles …
Robert Charles Carl Sinclair Or Chuck.
MrJohnRead just sent me the best thing!
michelleread JamesEThoenes Not really. Just three since I started writing. But they have been very encouraging.
michelleread MrJohnRead Hint: it’s a dick pic
matmorrisauthor Carl Sinclair Old Bohannon eh. Good lad. I love how you’ve never invited me on. The hate is real.
JamesEThoenes michelleread I’ve met only Denise Grover Swank. I was fangirling and found her inspiring just because I knew she was making a living at what I want to make a living at.
Carl Sinclair Finished Stormlight 1 today. Must say, the last 35% is very strong. Wish the whole series was done so I could continue bingeing.
CCWall Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor You are hard on the penis? Awkward.
MrJohnRead michelleread IT WAS NOT!
Carl Sinclair CCWall matmorrisauthor times are tough
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor That’s what I like about you. You understand the reality of the situation.
matmorrisauthor Carl Sinclair Yeah the end of that book smashed it. Book 2 I enjoyed but I do hate knowing there is another 8 of them coming…
At least he writes reasonably quickly.
michelleread MrJohnRead I sent John a dick pic too.
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor I’m taking a break. I’ll probably wait for a few more books to come out before returning to it, and will probably re-listen to book 1 again. I kinda wanted to re-start book 1 once I fully had a grasp on what was happening, anyway, so it’ll be a win-win.
Carl Sinclair michelleread MrJohnRead Everyone gets one!!
Carl Sinclair michelleread MrJohnRead All I got was a picture of you????
matmorrisauthor Carl Sinclair I’m too successful for your show.
What…
You said we were trolling…
: )
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor We’ve only had a couple guests on the show with more sales than me. 😉 I just try to not point that out.
MrJohnRead Carl Sinclair michelleread Ohhhhhh!!!!!!
matmorrisauthor Carl Sinclair Has a steep learning curve, but it all came together. I love the magic and technology. I’ll re-read them at some stage.
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor He’s never invited me on either, don’t be sad. He’s too good for us.
I am inspired by people who make lots of money. I know that sounds greedy, but I like money.
michelleread MrJohnRead Carl Sinclair
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor I read 2 short stories today, and like 15% through Ready Player One. Everything is so short after going through 4-5 Sanderson books in a row.
Robert Charles Preaching to the choir mate.
Robert Charles That’s a great thing to be inspired by.
Carl Sinclair Robert Charles Preach it, Chuck.
Robert Charles hell yeah!
Robert Charles
MrJohnRead Robert Charles “YES”
matmorrisauthor Carl Sinclair Robert Charles Hmmm
matmorrisauthor Carl Sinclair Robert Charles lolz
I advise everyone to be a sellout. Nothing wrong with it at all. All the best authors have sold out.
Second job… I don’t even go to my first one.
My name is coming up so much and I’m only half paying attention and it freaks me out a little.
Carl Sinclair Got it: Sell out all the books.
matmorrisauthor matmorrisauthor
matmorrisauthor Your name freaks me out too.
My second job actually supports me. My first job is a podcast I do for free.
matmorrisauthor So spooky…
Carl Sinclair Sell out in what way?
Robert Charles Carl Sinclair In every way Chuck.
Carl Sinclair Robert Charles I like what you did there.
Never fear, BatmanErica is here
Carl Sinclair We don’t all have cushy Aussie government jobs, Sinclair. But we love how you rub it in.
matmorrisauthor Carl Sinclair Robert Charles Basically, get down on your knees and say “yes please Mr Bezos”
BatmanErica 🙂 How are you this week?
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor Robert Charles You are suggesting oral sex?
Xavier said Business Time and I can’t post pictures…..this is very annoying.
BatmanErica I was so afraid like 20 seconds ago.
Robert Charles Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor He usually is, yes.
Robert Charles Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor You don’t have to be so proper about it. We call them chewies.
michelleread Carl Sinclair I submitted my one hour’s notice yesterday. Wrote it in a small greeting card that had a smiley face on it and taped it to the Team Leader’s monitor. She said it was the best resignation ever! 😛
michelleread great. I resigned :p
BatmanErica michelleread Carl Sinclair Cool!!
BatmanErica michelleread Carl Sinclair Congrats, if that’s the truth.
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor Robert Charles
matmorrisauthor and now you no longer have to be :p
BatmanErica michelleread YAY!!!!
BatmanErica michelleread Carl Sinclair If it’s not… fuck you for lying to us!
BatmanErica michelleread Carl Sinclair 1 hour???
Robert Charles I had an awesome contract 😛
BatmanErica Sweet Erica!
Robert Charles BatmanErica I didn’t mean sell out to her.
BatmanErica Hey kiddo
Did he just say Dinosaur Roar?
Robert Charles Noir
Robert Charles loooool
michelleread Robert Charles Oh…
Carl Sinclair Robert Charles Chuck is becoming one of us.
Robert Charles michelleread Context: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00P00B6OO
xgranville Robert Charles michelleread Thank you, I was trying….
xgranville Robert Charles michelleread dinoRAWWWRR
xgranville Robert Charles michelleread A smoking dinosaur. Now I’ve seen everything.
Robert Charles xgranville michelleread Have you seen a man eat his own head, Chuck?
Robert Charles xgranville michelleread Thank you, Robert :p
Robert Charles
Carl Sinclair kiddo? Aren’t we the same age?
Carl Sinclair Robert Charles xgranville michelleread No?? It’s Robert…
Robert Charles Carl Sinclair xgranville michelleread Then you haven’t seen everything, have you?
Read a book on increasing hourly words: 5000 Words Per Hour – it was pretty good.
Carl Sinclair Robert Charles xgranville michelleread Fair enough.
JamesEThoenes wow that is many words in one hour. I can do about 1K in an hour
Reverse vampires!
Things pop up at night that don’t in the morning
Carl Sinclair Robert Charles xgranville michelleread
MrJohnRead I do not understand. Doesn’t it always pop up?
MrJohnRead No time in the morning – NO TIME!!
I like my sleep ins >.<
BatmanErica JamesEThoenes I write about 500 an hour. I slowed down from around 2k to make sure it was better quality.
BatmanErica MrJohnRead True
BatmanErica I’ve added creamer and suger to the water without the coffee (definitely not a morning person)
michelleread MrJohnRead Also true
BatmanErica I like sleepovers. With ladies. Plural… ain’t nobody got time for just one.
BatmanErica MrJohnRead she means a penis.
matmorrisauthor BatmanErica GROSSSS
JamesEThoenes we have real milk here
LoCarl Sinclair BatmanErica MrJohnRead Lol
Carl Sinclair MrJohnRead I think he knew
The best way to see a sunrise is to stay up all night and then go to sleep.
michelleread matmorrisauthor BatmanErica As my friend Kevin always says. He’s married, not crippled. Why limit yourself to one?
BatmanErica MrJohnRead Not over forty
Babies cry…end of statement
MrJohnRead Wade doesn’t cry. He cranks.
MrJohnRead I’m screenshotting this for the next girl I date.
My neighbour’s cat is a time suck
BatmanErica My life is a time suck.
Carl Sinclair you have kids and by that I mean minions 😛
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair I wish they were minions.
Dear Xavier Granville,
Piss off.
Oklahoma
We are so going to Japan!
MrJohnRead Oklahoma is a strange place.
Robert Charles MrJohnRead John is from Okie, Chuck…
Robert Charles MrJohnRead Tell me more about it
Carl Sinclair Robert Charles MrJohnRead I know.
BatmanErica JamesEThoenes We do too but milk does not agree with me – and I live in “the dairy state”
What’s there to manage about time? It ticks by, one minute at a time, for your whole life….
matmorrisauthor stop managing time and manage yourself?
matmorrisauthor Not if you’re in a Red Dwarf episode.
Carl Sinclair Robert Charles MrJohnRead Points to Carl Sinclair for using the word “Okie”
JamesEThoenes matmorrisauthor Manage YOURself
I wrote 5,000 words in an hour. Once. It’s on video, too. But fuck that…
Carl Sinclair did you see that they’ve signed up for two more seasons? 😛
matmorrisauthor You’re amazing, the end
matmorrisauthor I saw! I was there!
matmorrisauthor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36xSrKhCojw
Carl Sinclair the book is even better. Go read it
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair Yeah. Wasn’t that good once it came back.
Carl Sinclair BatmanErica the one with Jesus was pretty good.
Writing quicker isn’t much good to you if you aren’t written better.
KU and everything comes back to one thing. Getting readers to read your book.
Write better. That’s the message.
Carl Sinclair I love when you preach this
It’s not the children I’m worried about
MrJohnRead ……..
Fox’s idea was kind of making writing as addicting as video games.
JamesEThoenes I love that idea
MrJohnRead it’s the lack of snickers bars?
michelleread Carl Sinclair Well it’s true.
Typing fast is not writing fast – Carl Sinclair
matmorrisauthor Yes but that was for a gimmick. You normally wouldn’t smash out writing like that. It’s not sustainable and you can’t write quality prose at 5k an hour imo. By you I don’t mean you. I mean generally.
Damn straight
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor And I mean 5k in an hour. Not 5K in 60 minutes spanning 24 hours….
matmorrisauthor Carl Sinclair I reckon somewhere around 1k an hour is pretty good going.
FUCK EVERYTHING.
matmorrisauthor This. Is. Kboaaaards!
So what do people have planned for the weekend?
My new aim is 2 chapters a day. I write my chapters at around 2 to 2.5k. If I can achieve that, that’s heaps. Anymore and my brain gets mushy and lower my quality.
BatmanErica Stressing about inspiration, obviously.
matmorrisauthor Right
BatmanErica I’m going to be watching television for research.
I wonder though if we are reaching the pulp fiction era of digital publishing
I’m sorry I have to go. Good evening.
Robert Charles Laters Chuck
Carl Sinclair Robert Charles Robert…
Robert Charles Carl Sinclair Sorry Bob.
Carl Sinclair Robert Charles …
JamesEThoenes Where we rape people in the basement of a pawn shop?
Robert Charles Good luck, Chuck.
MrJohnRead WTF?
JamesEThoenes KU certainly helped encourage it 🙂
BatmanErica MrJohnRead Pulp Fiction.
BatmanErica MrJohnRead Haven’t seen the movie?
MrJohnRead JamesEThoenes Cheap, short, and fast writing. Quantity vs. qualtity.
She said come.
MrJohnRead not all of it. Doesn’t appeal.
Robert Charles Carl Sinclair Bobbert?
BatmanErica MrJohnRead GET OUT OF HERE
Carl Sinclair I knew someone would catch that. I’d never make it on tv.
Never. Stop Dreaming.
BatmanErica MrJohnRead Understandable
matmorrisauthor Mat Morris is a cat poster 🙂
matmorrisauthor That’s the kboards tagline.
matmorrisauthor No. Don’t. Stop.
JamesEThoenes Doesn’t necessarily have to be quantity vs quality. I have a fave author that is prolific and I always what she writes.
matmorrisauthor it goes on “Never stop dreaming… because that’s how you succeed. We think.”
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor Grammar matters, Carl. KBoards doesn’t get that, though.
Carl Sinclair Wouldn’t ‘doing’ be how you succeed?
BatmanErica Plottng
matmorrisauthor Carl Sinclair Meh. Fuck grammar.
matmorrisauthor ahahahahaaa!!
Right… I don’t have to worry about doing a show at the exact same time once a week… Life is so easy.
Never. Stop.
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair These are the people that came up with “Marketing is cheating”
matmorrisauthor Just Do it.
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc18WsYnlfc
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/hoaevent/AP36tYdIf5aKA69LTlveniVJZHGu_jBMKNHgMGPA6ut4hA2ppM8tVQ
Carl Sinclair matmorrisauthor Just dance.
matmorrisauthor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5qU-QqYd0
AFTER PARTY!
xgranville Party?!
I’ve become a fan of Xavier Granville tonight, even though he dissed OK. Tonight, Xavier inspired me.
LRDennis Well thank you! I’ll have to wax lyrically more often haha.
LRDennis Are you in Oklahoma? If so, I’m fist bumping in your direction.
xgranville LRDennis You could always wane poetically
michelleread LRDennis Fist bump a little bit south, Michelle. I’m near Dallas, Texas. We’re like geographical cousins. 🙂
LRDennis michelleread Check!
LRDennis michelleread Bump
xgranville LRDennis Loved the Thistle story, but also, I take care of my mother, so I can relate to the broken-up way time is these days. And my daughter has asked me to put her on digest, to keep from fracturing her days, too. You’re right, though. Family is one thing you can’t slight.
LRDennis xgranville Yep yep. They’re sometimes the last ones we get to, even though they’re the most important!
michelleread LRDennis Probably related. Most Okies are…
I think the itunes feed is broken. The last one in the queue is Carl Sinclair, which really leaves a bad taste in your mouth, you know?
What inspires me to write? The stack of bills waiting to be paid. That should keep me working for, oh, the rest of my life!
Sandy