Mark McClelland's Blog - Posts Tagged "announcement"

I recently started writing a free serial ebook over at Wattpad, called Orbital Velocity . Here's my blurb for the book:

The true, wandering, improvised story of one man's quiet journey from unfit and unhealthy to something better. The chronically slothful author seeks to feed two birds with one seed, breaking out of his cycle of neither exercising nor publishing by sharing his tale of self-improvement. The title, "Orbital Velocity", is a metaphor for breaking free from the gravity that keeps him in bed when he should be up, reading when he should be writing, thinking when he should be doing. Snoozing, reading, and thinking are all good and necessary things, but "being in a rut" often means doing the easy things to the exclusion of the higher-exertion or more willpower-intensive activities that make us humans healthy. "Orbital Velocity" is about breaking the cycle and reaching a point where good-health habits are so ingrained that they take minimal willpower to sustain.

Think of it as a quirky, slow-paced, inspirational exercise video for those who prefer to read.

I've been enjoying the project immensely, and it's far enough along that I figured I'd mention it here.

Meanwhile, I've also found a developmental editor for the novella I've been working on, a story of love and jealousy in a fairy-tale setting. More news on that once I'm further along with story editing.