Same Plan - Writing Update

My actions for the new year and my writing have been consistent in that I am doing the same things I was doing in the past few months. The plan is still the same, so in that sense, I am happy to report to you, the reader, updates on my career.

I am happy to say that I am getting more and more editing clients as I have been trying to actively connect with other writers. I am not one to openly like connecting. I have learned over the years, though, that no man is an island, and the people I have met who love to write stories as I do are truly a treasure in themselves. I won’t say to contact me if you need help with your editing, because if you have been paying any attention to me, you know you can easily reach out to me about that.

I want to get all my stuff off of Patreon and on my site. I am currently doing that, and the reason for that move is that I want to control all of my work. I don’t want to one day have Patreon be gone, and then my work is gone with it. I know that one writer spoke to me about Substack, and I have experience with blogs and Patreon, so I am not really interested in another medium where I can share stuff and not actually control the work. If you want to read my stuff, you can go to my website. The updates like this are always free. There are some poems and flash fiction that everyone can read, and if you want to read more from me, then you can subscribe to a monthly membership, where you get more poems, flash fiction, book updates, and short stories.

Concerning book previews, I finally got around to putting up my previews on my site. You can now read previews for Day in the Life, Collected Poems, and Everything Must Go here. (I will put them on the blog at a later time, so they are a bit easier to read)

For the novels, I have not given them the time I should have, honestly. I have spoken to a few people about Hit of Henry, and so far, they do like the idea of the book, which is encouraging, but I will get you guys a preview of the book on the site, hopefully, soon.

I wrote a fun dialogue between Alexander the Great and William Shakespeare recently, and I think there is a book in that idea, but I have not really fleshed it all out.

This year has been hectic for me and frankly not as productive for my writing as I wish it to be, but I am happy to say that I have been writing up some poems and I am going to share them in their complete forms sooner than later.

Sometimes I write up a scene or a story, and it is not finished, but I decide to share it on social media anyway as a way to show you guys that I am actually writing.

I am going to put more information about the various aspects of my career, so those who don’t know about it can get a better idea of what it is about. For example, I will give the Greg Luti Literary Club and the Luti Library a page on my site to explain what the hell those things even are. The club is a paid membership for site access, and the library is a mail-order membership for my books. I know I am not always clear here.

There is always so much to write and so much to do, but I guess that is life for you. I have found that if I approach things with a realistic optimism, then I will be able to handle most things. I don’t want to be naïve and act like that thing doesn’t matter, because it does. And I don’t want to say I don’t care either, because I do, so I see struggles as a way to impress myself and others, rather than seeing them as chains to my progress. If all we do is from our mind, then it is the mind that matters most in the balance of our life.

I will stop here, before I make this a philosophical rant on the importance of balance to one’s life and how that can better the progress of the mind.