AtoZChallenge 2015: I is for Insanity
Hello fellow AtoZers and welcome to the Wittegen Press blog where we’re talking about the ‘why’ behind some of our books. Today Natasha Duncan-Drake and Sophie Duncan will be talking about why they went temporarily insane.
Think back to July 2012 and the Olympic Games. It was one of those years where everything seemed to need to be that much bigger. In honour of this amazing event, Soph and I had a moment of insanity 🙂 . We decided to have a Giveaway Games.
In our mutual loss of common sense we decided to give away a free short story or, in some cases, half a novelette or novella followed subsequently by the second half, each day for the whole month.
31 days of fiction in every genre we could come up with from horror to fantasy and everything in between. We ended up with 28 separate stories, each day packaged up for download on that day only. It was awesome and utterly manic. Sometimes we were up until midnight putting together the final downloadable versions.
I think it was a bit like running a race, we got into a zone and the adrenaline kept us going, we didn’t notice the pain (too much) until we looked back!
Anyway, once the Giveaway Games was over, we knew we wanted to do something with all the stories, because they’d only be available for a day. Thus came about the Giveaway Games Anthologies. In case folks didn’t like all the genres, or indeed, either author, we broke the stories down in those ways, all, by genre and by author. Myriad Imaginings, which is the book that is FREE today, is the anthology with all the stories in it.
The Giveaway Games was fun, totally mad and we’re never doing it again! Well, not until we forget how frantic it was, anyway ;P
Have you ever done anything so totally nuts you doubt your own sanity!?
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Does the A to Z Challenge count as crazy? 😉
I think it probably does! 😉
Totally 🙂
A to Z was going to be my comment…as I trawl through lots of blogs looking for inspiration!
I think there may be a theme today 🙂
Not the first 😉
I am so impressed by your fiction effort. I love the way folks like yourselves get involved in a bigger picture and offer something down the line, as it were. My contribution to the Olympics was to buy a lottery number. As I didn’t win a penny, I may own a half brick somewhere in London, or a bucket of water for the sailing. anne stenhouse, Novels Now.
Thank you 🙂 You can be proud of that brick/bucket – that was a great year!
A contribution is still a contribution 🙂 Thank you so much for visiting.
It is insane to get ourselves into these “challenges”….writing, painting, blogging…whatever every single day. But we do it because part of us loves it. The other part is screaming at us! You writers amaze me.
LOL! Yes, we do all have the enthusiastic puppy that loves everything and want to join in, and then there’s the logical part of our brain rolling its metaphorical eyes and tutting! 🙂
There is just that part of all of us that like to go, see what I did and grin broadly 😀 Thank you so much for dropping by.
Pretty much every day. I’m to the point where I’m not afraid of anyone or anything any more. Life’s just too short.
Stopping in from A to Z and thanks for the continued participation!
Stephen Tremp
A to Z Co-host
Twitter: @StephenTremp
A good philosophy to live by 🙂
Life is indeed too short 😀 I hope you enjoy your moments of insanity – they should be fun 🙂
I think a lot of what we do is insanity when we look back at it….
You might have a point 🙂
That is probably true 😉
That really does sound a little bit insane. but fun. I have to admit I thoroughly enjoy the April A-Z, and still did it two years ago when my own actual book was being published and I had to go to and help organise the launch and everything as well. in fact, i can hardly remember the A-Z that year, but I did indeed write a poem every day as usual. This year i’m writing three books at the same time and it’s even better. I think I thrive on insanity. Like you, clearly! ~Liz http://www.lizbrownleepoet.com
Go you! 🙂 I hope the books are going well. I have just launched a new book at the end of March, so I know the insanity. Thank you for dropping by :).
Now that is a challenge – 3 at once! Your muse clearly likes lots of things to do at once 🙂