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Choose Your Sitcom
Serialization is a thing, and it’s changing what we’re demanding of our fiction. For the last few weeks, I’ve been picking up free and 99c books at Amazon. At Amazon because I read on a kindle and because all of my self-published books are exclusive to Amazon (the requirement to enrol them in Amazon’s lending…
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Purpose
I’ve been self-publishing for a year now. Time for a short period of reflection and a reboot. [Side note: I never thought I’d ever refer to myself in computer terms, but there ya go!] I have learned a lot of things, mostly contradictory. Sometimes the contradiction is because there are always exceptions to a rule.…
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Creativity
With thanks to Ainslie Paton for sharing this link to Elizabeth Gilbert talking about creativity. Lots of good stuff about keeping on going; about not helping, but loving, about the passion of creating and not worrying about being original.
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Motivation
Soul searching can become navel-gazing. Have you decided to write a book, become a best-selling author, learn to tap dance? Whatever your goal, second guessing it, and how you plan to achieve it, just wastes energy. I’m trying to change my tendency to think-churn. I know what I’m doing, now, in terms of my writing goals.…
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Don’t make my mistakes!
Alternatively, I wanted to title this post, How To Write A Bestseller, but there’s a maxim that I’m wary of: those who can do; those who can’t, teach. Well, I haven’t written a bestseller, so who am I to tell you what to do? But there’s another bit of wisdom that suggests that while every…