Branching out with my writing
You’re still unpublished.
No worries. Start your own company. Give yourself a signing bonus. [A $10 coffee card ought to do the trick. Knock it down to $5 if the CFO raises a little hell.]
Make it even more realistic. Turn down your own manuscripts. Promptly. And rudely.
IndieAuthorsAlliance @IndieAuthorALLI Book Marketing Ideas for Indie Authors: Introducing the New Bookfunnel Bundle #author bit.ly/2umr57V
David Gaughran @DavidGaughran
Scammers Break The Kindle Store
https://t.co/5s7fqjTBfs
Kindle Direct Pub @AmazonKDP
Some guiding words from KDP author @jaltucher.
IndieAuthorsAlliance @IndieAuthorALLI
5 Top tips to Boost Your Productivity bit.ly/2evBWDL#selfpub
[I’ve been working on the ‘road map’ tip. Sometimes I’m just not disciplined enough.]
Jon Winokur @AdviceToWriters
If I see an ending, I can work backward. ARTHUR MILLER #amwriting#fiction
And yet more productivity tips!! Jeff Goins @JeffGoins
Kill Distractions and Amp Up Your Productivity buff.ly/2tCpDgv
[I like the instrumental music tip.]
Today is not a good day to spout politics. Unless you want to be engulfed in a Twitter storm and wake up trollers from their mid-afternoon slumber. On the other hand, there might be ‘reader runoff’ into your Lifestyle of the Destitute and Obscure blog.
Approach a writing snafu from a different angle.
Try shredding that bungled first chapter instead of your customary wad-and-toss.
If it helps, add a few choice expletives as the pages are ‘repurposed’.
Some of the greatest writers of the past century on how to handle criticism https://t.co/DvCwfSOue4
A self-publishing primer from @JaneFriedman is among this week’s Finds for Writers: wp.me/p4x0h8-bKZ.
You have to resign yourself to wasting lots of trees before you write anything really good. J.K. ROWLING #amwriting #writing #writinglife
“When an idea comes, spend silent time with it…” https://t.co/WjESlYRIkz
You re-learn how to write a book every time you write a book. bit.ly/2sFlNUQ
The stars are in alignment.
That person who is wearing your spilled latte is a desperate literary agent.
She notices you’re using page 18 of your manuscript to assist in the clean-up.
Capitalize! Offer up pages 19-40. [Your opening needed work anyway.]
Face your fears.
Your latest work can’t be that bad.
And letting the toner cartridge run dry won’t make the words go away.
Either print it out or invest in a better coping mechanism.
Your Twitter followers will burgeon to triple digits today.
Don’t let it go to your head. A missed typo in your tweet about an ‘affinity for smooth jazz and the dulcet tones of the sax’ lured 75 degenerates with no interest whatsoever in your novel.
Edit carefully.
I had just opened the book Writing for Story, by Jon Franklin, and began reading one of his highly-acclaimed stories, entitled Mrs. Kelly’s Monster, that detailed surgical procedures to relieve a patient of almost four decades of suffering from a malformation of blood vessels in the back of her brain.
And I thought…36 years of agony, all the while partnering with her husband to raise a family.
And I thought…and here I am whimpering and simpering about Facebook’s cluelessness about member requests that vaporize.
And I thought…get off your duff and keep writing!
And I thought…you folks should too!
Dig in! Ramp it up! Kick some literary booty! Go!
You were going to chuck it all. But think carefully now…offers from Earl and Pearl’s Blockbuster Publishing don’t come around every day.
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