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Welcome to the Heibel Media Newsletter

July 2015

June was a month of setbacks with minimal work getting done but work is getting done and in July I expect to make headway on the revision of When Love Breaks Down. The new writing is taking a hit because of a change in my business that is keeping me inordinately busy.

I've learned to take the ups and downs as they're dealt to me and now is a down.

So read on and see what's happening in the creative world of Lawrence Heibel.

Thanks for your support!

Edition 23

In this issue

Authorpalooza Thank You

Random Passages

Write 365 Initiative Progress Report

The Last Thing I Wrote

ReWrite 365 Initiative Progress Report

Book Club Deal

Writing 500k Words Update

What's Ahead!

As I Write Blog Update

Print and Digital Collections

Links to All Heibel Media Sites

Big Thanks to Big Rapids Community Library's

Authorpalooza

Had a great time despite the rain last month in Big Rapids for their author meet and greet and book sale. Thanks to those who bought books and chatted with me. It was a lot of fun!

New Feature!

Random Passages from My Books

Each month I'm going to give you a sample of my books direct from their pages. I'll rotate through the books starting with my oldest writings to my newest. Here's a bit from the novella Overture to Rain.

His fingers are torn and dirty and blackened with dried blood. He reaches up and pushes his hands up through the grate in the ceiling. It is the only place where sunshine, air and soon, rain, will flow.

The wind caresses his fingertips and he grimaces at the pain. His fingers are stumps at the knuckles. Calluses, thick and hard cover the tips. The wind leaves a hint of moisture on his fingertips and he exhales the deep breath he has been holding since he thrust his hands through. The barely present moisture tickles his fingers. He begins to sob.

He holds his hands through the grate and lets the breeze flit through his fingertips as the touch of moisture evaporates as soon as it touches his dry skin. He holds his hands through the grate for the two remaining hours of daylight and then slowly, reluctantly, withdraws them.

"Fingers poking through the grate would be a tasty treat wouldn't they be?" He says to the rat carcasses on the table.

Write 365 Initiative 2015-16 Progress Update!

The Write 365 Initiative is a year-long project of mine to write at least 1 new page of fiction every single day for a year. I keep a chart that is updated weekly on the website of my progress. Follow this link to see the chart and read about the progress of all my stories: http://www.heibelmedia.com/365weeklyupdates.html

Here is an up to date (as of 6/30/15) summary of everything I've written since I started this on April 11, 2015:

Met Goal Initiative 100%: 75 Days Completed Successfully of 81 Days!

I wrote 68 new pages of Magi Harvest

To date: Wrote 299 new pages of Magi Harvest

Wrote 2 new pages of flash fictions

I went 781 days without missing a day and then missed 6 days in June.

Current streak is 3 days.

NEW FEATURE!

The Last Thing I Wrote

I thought it'd be fun to share something I had just written. You'll get no context just the last 100 words of the last thing I worked on before putting out the newsletter. This is from book 3 of the Gods' Powers Trilogy The Magi Harvest.

"The man you seek is a loner who doesn't function well with people so he lives alone and seeks people who are alone," Frynia said. "He's probably a former soldier to be skilled enough to cut his victims as he has."

"Butchered!" The same male voice shouted.

"A butcher would be more careful with his cuts. This man cuts to inflict pain and death," Frynia said. "Your road blocks are useless. He comes to the city through the forest game trails and thinks of himself as an animal killing to insure his survival and kills to nourish his beliefs. He kills individuals because they are a perceived threat, yet not enough to overwhelm him as he overtakes them and kills them."

"How can you know this?" The lone challenger called out from the crowd.

"Because I'm a killer and understand how a killer thinks," Frynia stated.

ReWrite 365 Initiative 2015-16 Progress Update!

The ReWrite 365 Initiative is a year-long project of mine to rewrite at least 1 new page of fiction every single day for a year. I keep a chart that is updated weekly on the website of my progress. Follow this link to see the chart and read about the progress of all my stories: http://www.heibelmedia.com/365weeklyupdates.html

Here is an up to date (as of 5/31/15) summary of everything I've rewritten since I started this on April 11, 2015:

Met Goal Initiative 100%: 79 Days Completed Successfully of 81 Days!

After revising every day for 71 days, I missed. Best streak is 71. Current streak is 2 days.

Novels: 495 Pages

When Love Breaks Down: 495 Pages

TO DATE:

Novels 1,223 Pages

Short Stories 6 Pages

Flash Fictions 2 Pages

Book Club Deal!

Purchase 10 or more of the same title book for your book club and I will come to your book club and speak about the book FREE of charge! Purchases of any of my five titles qualifies for a free visit!

Travel expenses are extra for locations north of Mount Pleasant, Michigan and outside of Michigan.

This is an opportunity to learn the interesting details behind the books writing and story.

To take advantage of this special contact Lawrence at lawrence@heibelmedia.com

Writing 500,000 Words in 2015

June Total Words: 14,156

Short of Monthly Goal: (27,511)

Total Words to Date: 192,297

Total Goal to Date: 250,041

Short of Goal by (57,744)

Novels: 185,642 new words written total

Soul Bearer Harvest 122,310 Words 1st Draft
Magi Harvest 63,332 Words 1st Draft

Short Stories: 6,663 new words written total

Author's Notes to Will You Please Listen, Please: 4,497 Words
Preface to Will You Please Listen, Please: 1,306 Words
Flash Fictions: 860 Words

What's On Tap for July?

Novels:

Finish First Revision of When Love Breaks Down
Continue First Draft of Magi Harvest

As I Write: My Blog

Every Tuesday and Friday at 10:30 a.m. I post an article about writing. It may be what I'm working on or something about stories and writing in general. It's a fun and interesting look at how a writer looks at things. I'm looking for people to read the blog, comment on the articles and follow my blog.

Here are the topics from June: