Massive Updates (plus some minor ones, too)

Hey readers!

Wow, two new posts inside of a week? What's going on!?

I've been really busy setting the groundwork for my coming serial releases, and I wanted to share the results of all that work with you, my loyal blog readers. A lot of things have changed or been added, to here, to the Round 10 Website, and to my new central author website, and I would love for you to check out any and all of them. However, for your convenience, this post breaks them up neatly so that you can skip right to the ones that interest you the most.

Lessons Learned in Self-Publishing: Part One

For those of you who only keep up with my blog and don't pay much attention to anything else I do (and why you only keep up with my semi-hardly-regular blog, I have no idea), Elephants in the Living Room part II, and the Complete Edition of Elephants, have both come out. And, if you follow my Facebook page, you know that my next book, an all new series, will be releasing early in June this year. On top of that, my beta reader notes came back for the Round 10 Core Rules, meaning the printed edition will become available soon enough.

So, I've been fairly busy. But that's not the point of this post.

5 Word Exercise - 03.20.2014

Five Word Writing Exercise 03.20.2014

Help me out! Comment with your own five-words, and I'll write out a post of some sort for those. See how your words can inspire me, and help to kick-start my creativity!

Friendship, Hoopla, Unexplored, Melancholy, Autumn

Time-Wasting Research: 

• Hoopla is derived from the French term houp-la!, used as an urgent command to another, oftentimes a child, to move. Houp-la, Pierre!
• Melancholy is often attributed to a gloomy or vaguely sad demeanor, but it can also mean sober thoughtfulness. It was once used to label the state of having too much black bile, which was once considered a cause for depression.
• The first result when Google-searching these words is a Goodreads blog page of author and cover-designer Nishi S. Looks like she has a focus on Young Adult Dark Fantasy, but I didn't delve in too deeply. Check it out!

Five Word Exercise - Outline

For this exercise, I'm going to write an outline, a story brainstorm, that uses the above listed five words to varying degrees. If writing to these beats, the story would be incredibly short, yet could easily be the starting point from which a larger piece could form. I doubt I will explore this any further than this blogging exercise.

Writing, Routine & Resolutions

So the resolutions aren't going great. Some I've made great progress on, and others (like blogging at least once a week) I've let slide. There's a lot of things I can blame it on, but ultimately it comes down to my lack of self discipline.

When I started this blog, I talked a lot about writing routines and how important it is to maintain a consistent habit of writing every day, even if its as simple as a journal entry. With Round 10 moving towards print, I've been trading writing time for editing time, formatting time, and layout time. And so I want to get back into the writing, now that R10 is out to the beta readers and is out of my hands until at least May 1st.

And so I present this to you, faithful reader. Help be the fuel for my writing, the inspiration. I pose to you this offer: comment on this post with 5 words. Any 5 words. They can be nonsensical, an incomplete thought. They could be silly or thought provoking. Just comment with them. I will choose those I find most interesting, and write something based off of them. It could be a short story, a poem, or just a character analysis or set of story beats. But I will write it and I will post it! So comment with those 5 words!

Round 10 on GM's Day Sale!

Check out DriveThru RPG this week to get the Round 10 Core Rules for only $13.99, as part of the GM's Day Sale! Simply click the link below to find out more!

http://round10rpg.com/get-round-10-on-gms-day-sale/

Beta Readers needed for Round 10 Print Edition!

Hey everybody. I know it's been a while since my last Blog Post (oh, the day when I won't be starting a new post with that line), but trust that I am hard at work with my writing and game design.

So hard at work, in fact, that I am looking for constructive feedback on the Round 10 Print Edition of the Core Rules. I am closing in on the final steps of preparing this document, and so I am opening up the Round 10 website to submissions from gamers who wish to be added to the Beta Reader sign up. Simply click this link to learn more!

Don't worry, there are rewards, and tokens of my gratitude, to those who do sign up. So take a step forward with me, help to make Round 10 into the best game it can be for it's release to print-on-demand!

Social Media, Exposure, and GOOGLE

Damn Google, please just let me merge my accounts already.

Anyways, I've set up a Author Nicholas Kory specifically for Nicholas Kory the Author. Check it out if you haven't already, give it a like, give it a follow!

Also, I now have an author-specific email account set up. This email will be for distribution of newsletters, setting up mailing lists, and helping to spread the word about my books and the various deals they have. To subscribe to my Author Mailing List, simply send an email to nicholaskory@gmail.com asking to be added to the mailing list. A bit clunky for now, I know, but hopefully soon I'll get this whole 'connect with your readership' stuff figured out.

That's all to report for now. I know, sort of a lame blog post, but I've got about twelve windows open in Chrome right now, so my most immediate goal is resolving each of them. Anyways, check out the Facebook page, get on the mailing list, and have a great week!