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Writing/Not Writing: A field guide.

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things that feel like Writing but aren’t Writing: making a mood board making a playlist for each character engaging with writing accounts on social media whining about how hard writing is making/selecting character art making a fancy family tree for your characters watching a movie that reminds you of your story writing ‘character interviews’ describing the plot of the book you’re for sure going to write to others in writing […]

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The Trunk

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Most Authors have one. It’s very rare for a writer to write their first book, and have it published,  especially in the years where traditional publishing was the only game in town. In this day and age, where indie publishing is a viable option, I suppose more people might be publishing their beginner work. This is usually a mistake. Your first efforts at writing novels are almost without fail, terrible.

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Writing Advice No One Wants to Hear

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This one’s kind of a quickie, because I’m probably going to need to go into protective custody once you’re all done reading it, and I really need to pack. Writers, I love you, I really do, so take this advice in the spirit in which it is intended… Writing Advice No One Wants to Hear If you’ve been working on the same book for ten years and it’s still not

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My Favorite Tools for Writing and Publishing Books!

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In the past couple of years, I’ve sort of become a one-stop shop for producing books. I write them. I do the covers. I format them. I create my own promotional social media graphics. The only thing I outsource these days is editing, and that is an expense I’ll continue to pay for because I have no confidence in my own ability to edit myself properly, plus I have an

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Maximizing My Schedule

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There are all sorts of productivity routines out there. Most of them say something like, ‘Do your most important work first when you’ve just gotten up and are fresh for the day,’ or ‘Get up at 5am and knock out a couple of hours of work before everyone else has started their day.’ Now, there’s nothing wrong with these strategies. They work for a lot of people, but they’re sold

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In Defense of Theme

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I’ve run across a lot of people lately who say something like, ‘I’m not writing with a message. I just want to write fun stories that entertain people,’ and also, ‘Thinking about the big ideas you’re working with is misguided, it’s not a writer’s job to work with a theme in mind, it’s the job of the critic to think about theme.’ There’s also the old wisdom that says, ‘If

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I’ve Got PLANS!

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Ok, so a couple of things. First, good news! Looking at my sales from the first of this year to now, I have already sold more books/made more money than I did all last year! That seems like a nice marker of progress, especially since most of these sales weren’t from any sort of campaign but from me posting about my books and people hitting the links. Those sales mean

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More Self-Publishing Questions Answered

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My last post went over the basics of how Self-publishing works. But there are a lot of other things you need to make decisions about. Here are some things you need to think about when you start your self-publishing journey. What’s an ISBN Anyway? An ISBN (International Standard Book Number) is the identifier your book will carry in various retail systems. It’s how the system identifies it. You need one

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