Release Your Insecurities Through IWSG

Today is the day we share our insecurities and release our fears, knowing we have a wonderful source of support in the writing community. Yes it’s the Insecure Writer’s Support Group posting day.  See the list of bloggers here. 

Today, Captain Alex’s able assistants on tour duty will be Julie Flanders, Heather Gardner, Kim Van Sickler, and Elsie is Writing.

 

And now for my bit of insecurity...

Most of the time, my book titles come to me along with the storyline. It makes life easy since I can work around the title and accompanying theme, knowing where I’m going with the story. I’ve hit a snag though, I’ve written a story and although I’ve crafted it around the title, I’m not 100% sure the title is 100% right. Trouble is, I don’t have a lot of time to decide. What lessons have I learned from this dilemma?

1. Plan way in advance. Whatever I think is early, I should start planning before that.

2. Be organized so that I can take advantage of opportunities when they crop up.

3. Stop stressing over the things I can’t change.

4. Stop setting unrealistic deadlines.

5. Stop looking at the things I have to do as an insurmountable whole (like that business plan I’m supposed to be writing) and do a little each day.

6.  Look at promotion as an opportunity to share my work and avoid drawing the analogy of a peanut vendor at a New Year’s Eve Ball, which paralyzes me into doing and sharing nothing.

That said, having got the rights back on this one, the updated version of Contraband is here. See new cover below, complete with hottie. If you like action, adventure and romance, you should at least download a sample of Contraband from Amazon. 

Thanks so, so much to all of you who helped me decide on the cover. I have more news to come, but since I got through my shameless bit of self-promotion, I’ll save it that ’til next week. Baby steps, you know?

And now for some exciting news. Drumroll please.

There’s an IWSG contest on! All you have to do is help spread the word about the group in some way—whether by tweeting, sharing on Google+ or Facebook or via a blog post.

There are two exciting prize packages so hop on over to the main site at IWSG and get all the details. Remember to follow by GFC if you haven’t already. Let’s share the love and spread the word and make Captain Alex’s vision a wonderful reality. To hop to the site, click here.

What are your fears? Care to share and release them? Make sure to enter the contest.