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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Make A Career Of It
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: The Long Game
Ever wonder why most of the truly famous writers are dead? It’s because writing is a long game. Not only a long game, but sometimes a very long game. Long enough so that the language itself changes before your popularity [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Populating Your World
If a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? If an ebook hits a virtual shelf and no one knows about it, is the story told?
I know that most [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Strategic Thinking
When you’re building the world of your plot, you have to wear many hats. You have to see the future in several different iterations, you have to be a number of different characters, and you have to identify consequences sometimes [...]
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Friday TMI
Taking a bit of a break from history today to share with people a little bit about me. About what’s on my sidebars, and what isn’t.
My bio says I’m a writer, but there are no books in my sidebar. I [...]
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: You (Don’t) Have To Like This Book!
One of the hardest parts of writing (for anyone besides yourself and maybe your mom) is promotion. I don’t care who you are, or what kind of writer you are, eventually, no matter how much of a tortured artistic recluse [...]
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The Price of Pixels
I don’t want to make my blog here all about nothing but ebooks, or nothing but writing, or nothing but indie publishing because honestly, I’d like to give you more than just that. It’s the concept of value-adding, where an [...]
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Exactly What It Says On The Tin?
Labels mean a lot to writers. The differences between “writer,” “author,” “published,” “unpublished,” and “bestseller” all consume parts of our writers’ brains (usually late at night and costing us valuable dream time.
It extends to places where I didn’t even realize [...]
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Ebook Millionaires: Bigger Slices, Smaller Pies?
I am seeing a lot of articles now about self-published success stories. Sometimes, they’re called the “99-cent Amazon millionaires.” Short explanation, for those who haven’t been keeping up is that these authors have moved away from the traditional author->agent->publisher->distributor->bookstore->reader method [...]
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