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So I am back... after disappearing once more even though I promised to change this year, but the again, this year hasn't been going according to anyone's plans, has it? I totally relate now to the meme of wasting my money on a 2020 planner only for it to be of absolutely no use to me. With the whole virus thing happening world wide, it had been really hard to do anything as planned. Now I am back because I've been sent to isolate at home for the second time from my part time job at Starbucks.
Just to update you on the progress of my writing life, I finished my latest novel that I had been working when I first went to isolation for about three weeks. It was hard at first but I took advantage of all the free time I had at home to set a goal and accomplish it. Now I have been told to quarantine and isolate again due to someone testing positive in my store, and so I am back to querying literary agents and promoting my already existing novel Bonds of Friendship. I have also been pushed to start working on my next novel or more by my youngest sister who is suddenly a fan of my work and interested in reading. Before she was just someone who made fun of the stories I had to tell. Anyways, that's all for this blog post, I'll try to keep updating and tell more later. Thank you for reading, bye. Iman.
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So I finally paid to restore my domain and my original blog from years ago is now back up. Some content from that blog has already been moved here while some different content remains there. I would like it best if you would follow that blog as well as keep visiting this site as I now plan to use both for promoting my works. So please o please, check it out and follow it, thank you.
So I got an email a few days ago from someone from Writer's Digest and it turned out to be a review of Bonds of Friendship from one of the judges of the Writer's Digest Self Published eBook competition. I know by now that I failed to win any position for the competition and was extremely downhearted over it for a while. Now that I got a detailed feedback over my work, I have come to realize that it isn't really an issue of my writing and stories being bad that keeps me from success; I keep getting compliments to remind me that I am truly good at what I do. It's just that there's a lot of competition and other variables involved that have kept me from reaching my goals any faster. One example it that I don't market myself well and don't know how to get the attention of my target audience. I still need to learn a lot before I can get there, hopefully I will do better with the new novel I'm working on.
So one of the things I like to blog about is whatever I learn and have learnt throughout the years and during my journey to become a published writer. I'm starting by copy, pasting, editing, updating and then finally posting in this website some pieces from my old blog page that I'm still working to fix. If you all are also writers and aspiring novelists, you could find the articles very helpful. If I can get some good following and support then I can continue posting such things enthusiastically.
Also I am completely open to questions and requests! You want my advice, suggestion or tips on something; just ask and I'll be happy to write about it :) Just comment, follow and share! Thank you, Iman. Hello fellow readers and writers,
This is Iman Malik or how I hoped to be referred as; writer Iman Malik. Having some technical difficulties with my blogger page and domain, I'm moving here to return to blogging. Blogging is very important for a writer but I have only been doing it off and on throughout the decade. That brings me to some official new year resolutions that I hope to work on, not only this year, but this new decade! First, more writing! I decided to give up on studies as the new year came in and I've been both sad and happy about it. I've decided to self educate myself instead and only focus on becoming a better writer. Which means this year has to be all about writing from now on and hopefully in the years to come as well. I have nothing holding me back anymore! (except my part time job) I have stable income, I got a new apartment as well at the start of the year and have my dream writing corner in it as well! With the stress of studies out of my way, I also have plenty of time and freedom to focus on my writing career. This bring me to my second resolution; get published! Though my novel Bonds of Friendship still remains for sale online on both amazon and nook as an eBook, with no success in getting more sales, I hope to start over with the new novel I've been working on. I hope to finish it soon and have it published this year! My third resolution is to dedicate more time and perhaps even invest money into marketing myself and my works. This is the main reason I returned to blogging and hope to stay dedicated to it this time so that I can have places to better promote myself and my works. Which bring me to my last resolution; get a fandom! That means YOU reading this right now! I need all YOUR support so please follow my pages, look into my works, share my stuff around with whoever else might be interested and just stick around till I can prove to you that I've got some great stuff to share with you. Hoping for the best in this new year and decade, Iman. |
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