Dannis Cole

Welcome to my new followers and happy 2025! I am taking a little breather while we figure out moving. Y'all take care!

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I got Chapter 10 out on Adia, One Of Prophecy. Taking a break over the holidays. When I come back, I'll need to do some major editing...oops.
          All this excitement and dread over our move is getting to me.
          Without a visa, we can visit Mexico for 6 months at a time. A quick trip to the states [or any country] and it resets. So our plan is to move around Mexico until our relatives are gone, then we have our sights on Europe. It's the scariest move we've ever planned, but we're hoping selling the house and an estate sale will finance it. I do get Social Security...for now.

My grown daughter and I have made a big decision. We are going to become digital nomads. We are tired of being scared in Walmart when someone's walking around in there carrying a gun. We are weary of the rudeness of drivers in giant pickup trucks honking at us for going the speed limit. Our country, the USA, is a mess. I would not recommend it for anyone contemplating immigration. I'm worried that my Hispanic neighbors and friends will be deported. It's horrible and we are worried high prices will make us unable to meet our mortgage. So we are in the process of selling my daughter's house soon and figuring out how to live out of a suitcase. It's a huge adventure, and seems scary but I think it will be fun to live my dream of seeing other countries.
          What do you think? Have you ever thought about moving to a new country? I visited Canada with friends 3 times and have very fond memories but we are thinking maybe of Mexico, then other countries south of the border while we still have relatives here in the states.

Welcome to all my new followers! Sorry I haven't been acknowledging you, but getting my books out set me behind. After Christmas I plan to get more organized about keeping up with my notifications, somehow. Those of you with hundreds of notifications daily, how do you do it?? I really need to know! Y'all take care! Happy holidays!

Progress!
          Changed my profile graphic. It still zoomed, but I redid it 3 times....
          Kia's Biehshah Gift
          Finished novel on Dec 5. I am one of 401 winners out of 1326 entrants of the Fall Royal Writathon 2024. Most of it is up with 2 chapters coming Tu and the final 2 Th. Planning to go back and edit in Editanuary.
          Have the 1st 3 chapters of Adia, One Of Prophecy up and planning to upload on Tu, Th and Sat. I'm doing the final edit on this one as I go. I need to make sure I never again plan a book release in December, if I'm going to novel in a month. Ugh. I didn't get my social media plan done at all, so I'm just releasing it. Next book will be Ray, Host, but I haven't set a release date yet.
          
          Now to tackle my over 50 announcements. It's getting harder for me to keep up with these so I'm hoping I don't miss any for the contests I entered. Thinking of limiting contest entries to no more than 5 from now on!

Whew! I wrote over 7,000 new words today! I tried to finish this book, but ended up 63,259 words of 89,265 words total in Reedsy for Kia's Biehshah Gift written in Nov. Thru Ch. 36. 
          I posted all my new chapters here to qualify for @JustWriteIt's 30 Day Challenge for November. I also did the 8 Chapter Challenge this month. I'll continue to add chapters and try to finish in December.
          
          Reedsy had a challenge to hit 80,000 new words this month for $100 credit towards hiring an editor. Obviously, I didn't hit that total, but I entered anyway because I do have over 80,000 total and I plan to explain that all of it wasn't written this month, if the software doesn't already make it obvious. This was an existing story with over 16,000 words already written, and I added some Oct 31 because I was simultaneously entering the Royal Road Writathon. I did win a free month of Author Premium over there, and got my winner sticker from NaNoWriMo. 
          This is the first time I entered the same story in 5 different challenges with slightly different requirements. 
          I'm tired. I missed some days of writing due to health, but overall, I'm glad I tried. I'm disappointed I couldn't finish the book, but it's mostly there and I had a lot of fun writing. Definitely worth it!
          For those of you who might like to try the 30 Day Challenge, it starts for December after midnight tonight! You report your final word count and enter on the last day of the month.
          The 8 Chapter Challenge gives you 2 months to add 8 new chapters at least to your story, whether it's an existing story or new. You have to post your story to Wattpad for both of these challenges, and only the portions posted during the challenge period are counted. Both challenge books are in my Story Ideas For Writers Book List, so if they interest you, check them out!

Hey there,
          I hope this message finds you well. You have made an entry in our award Visions of Grandeur in the sci-fi genre but have not completed the payments requested by the judge. Your book has been judged and ranked, so kindly have it done soon; otherwise, we will have to disqualify your entry.
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Happy Thanksgiving!

I just put Chapter 23 Of Kia's Biehshah Gift a few mins ago on Royal Road and already have 24 views! For some reason I get a lot more views on RR than here, but other stats are very different. Not as many followers there [10] compared to the 101 of you I have here. There folks can leave a review, but not many do that. Comments are like pulling teeth, about like here, but people don't run contests much there. It's interesting to compare the two platforms. Here I have 72 views on Kia and on RR I have 1756. But, I have a better experience overall here than on RR, despite more views on my stuff. So stats are not the whole story. I really enjoy the contests here but I sure wish I had the views here I have on RR! 
          
          How do your experiences compare across your platforms, for those of you who are writers and put your stuff on more than one platform [you 'went wide']?