Reality Check For Authors #17: TDQ Too-Damn-Quiet
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” ― Ernest Hemingway It’s 6 AM and this is the second day, week, maybe even month, that you’ve sat down to work on the...
View ArticleReality Check For Authors #18: One Size Does Not Fit All
“Indie publishing lets me feed my inner control freak.” ― Michelle M. Pillow One size does not fit all. What works to power the sales of a Traditionally Published author, will not necessarily work to...
View ArticleReality Check For Authors #19: Nothing Lasts Forever
There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write. - Terry Pratchett Traditional Publishing, Vanity Press, Indie Publishing, Self-Publishing;...
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View ArticleReality Check For Authors #20: What To Do When The Muse Runs Amuck
I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose. - Stephen King Every writers felt it, experienced it and been plagued by it; be it first thing in the morning while...
View ArticleReality Check For Authors #21: Perspective is 9/10ths of the Work
As writers we love the sound of our own ideas, the ratta-tap-tap of fingers on keyboards and the blinking cursor as it flies over the page. There is something profoundly accelerating about seeing our...
View ArticleReality Check For Authors #22: Failure – A Writer’s Platform to Success
For most newbie authors (and some not so new) getting the story right the first time means fewer moments of feeling as though what you’ve just written, is garbage. It’s a way of passively robbing the...
View ArticleReality Check For Authors #23: Knowing the Beginning From the End
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” Ray Bradbury Writing a stand-alone novel has as many challenges to it as writing the same story in a series. Each comes with its own...
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#24 Are All ‘Arks’ Created Equal We all know the story of The Flood and how Noah built an ark, filled it with family and friends, then took a year-long cruise. A story with a beginning, a middle and...
View ArticleReality Check For Authors #25: Great Storytelling is Like Great Cheesecake
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View ArticleBarnes & Noble’s Dirty Little Secret: Author Solutions and Nook Press
Originally posted on David Gaughran:Nook Press – Barnes & Noble’s self-publishing platform – launched a selection of author services last October including editing, cover design, and (limited)...
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#26: It Is What It Is There are no guarantees that life will go smoothly, or that when you least expect it the universe won’t throw you a curve ball you are ill prepared to catch: one that interrupts...
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