Indie Book Club discussion

Hey guys! We're doing a year-long theme blog series over at http://www.the4threalm.com about our experiences as authors, called Adventures in Writing, and I was curious if anyone here had any interesting 'adventures' they wanted to share. We're looking for experiences, stories, tidbits, or tales of success and/or woe in your writing/publishing/marketing lives. The series is broken up into the following sections, and we're adding our own anecdotes for each, but if you'd like to also contribute, we'd be sure to credit you and your site/blog for anything you share.

1. Coming up with a story
2. Outlining
3. Motivation
4. Actual Writing
5. Editing
6. Publishing
7. Marketing

These could be a couple sentences, a paragraph, or even a full blog post. Any help with this would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thanks
Kris Kramer

6. Publishing. I pitched an editor. He said send me the first 500 words. I sent the entire article. He bought it. Japan Airlines in-flight magazine WINDS, $800. Those days may be over.