Now that my metal clay book is out on virtual bookstore shelves and my next book is finishing up, I thought about writing something totally different the other day and pulled up some old files for a novel I’ve been working on, for, eerrr, like forever! I have about 80 or so pages, basically really a shell of the book that is fleshed out in some areas but needs to be fleshed out in many others, and in my typical cart-before-the horse attitude, I started thinking:

“I wonder how many words a typical novel is? How many pages per chapter? How many chapters should I have? How do I get this masterpiece published once I’m finished?”

Yes, I do realize this is totally idiotic crap to think about when I have been working on this for probably at least 3 years and I may be only about half way done with it, but like I said, that’s me, always thinking ahead even when I still have a lot of work in front of me to do, always finding a way to lose my focus.

Finally, I snapped myself out of my dream world, and I realized that at one point I had no clue how to write non-fiction craft articles and books and get them published, but I did figure it out eventually. Of course, I got a lot of help because I was very lucky that a lot of it sort of fell into my lap, but just as there is a way to publish craft writing work, there must be a process for getting fiction published, so shut up stupid brain and worry about that later.

So, this is a very long introduction to tell you that I plan on writing some short articles on how to get your craft designs published. I’ve even added a new category for it: “Getting Craft Work Published.” It came to me in my hazy novel writing fog, also, that there are probably people out in the webby world who don’t know how to do this just like I don’t know how to do the novel publishing stuff, so I plan to tell you, at least how I did it and other ways you can manage to get your designs published.

Stay tuned craft-erinas.

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