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Five Essential Writer’s Tools I Use To Make My Living
Two important points, one – the software I’m going to mention here is available for less than a hundred bucks – total cost. And two- there’s nothing like having an older computer running out of operating memory to focus your attention on what’s really important and what you use rather than on what’s the latest [...]
The Perennial Lesson
It seems I’m destined to have a very important lesson crammed back into my head and I might as well accept this and move forward with learning it. Almost 20 years ago now, my first agent taught me how to write a book proposal. In retrospect I couldn’t have bought the kind of education she [...]
I Shipped
This is a short progress report to mark yet another milestone in my writing journey. Last November, I decided and then undecided to write a novel as part of the NaMoWriMo. It seemed like a good idea at the time and I launched into the planning stages with enthusiasm. But I quickly bogged down in [...]
Other Posts of Interest
Facebook Cripples Your Author Page
As you know, control (at all levels) rests with controlling information flow. If you control the flow and decide a video is “wrong” you can activate followers to respond to that control. If you spend a bajillion dollars to flood the airwaves with negative advertising, you control the message and votes. If you restrict the [...]
Re-Imaging The Online World
The fall and winter is when I normally get a chance to sit, drink some coffee, pull out my doodle pens & paper and just think about the what and where of my future work. In the nursery, this was always a November thing, the old season had finished, the new one hadn’t started and [...]
Suck it up Princess
I don’t know about you, but it drives me nuts when I have a thought that won’t leave me alone. And I’ll confess right here this one has been hanging about for longer than I’d care to admit. I’m a fairly successful non-fiction writer but I’ve always wondered if I could write fiction. There I’ve [...]
The Difference Between Men and Women
When a guy phones and asks a couple for dinner, the process is simple. “Hey, do you and XX want to come to dinner on Saturday night?” Answer – “Sounds good, what time?” “Six” “We’ll be there” “See you then” When a woman phones another woman to join them for dinner. They begin by divorcing [...]
My Writing World
Here is a simple way to describe my writing world – before 2002 and after 2002. If you remember, that was roughly when the Net-bubble burst (for the first time) and the publishing industry changed rather drastically. This Was My World Then This Is My World Now Understand this is a very simplified view. The [...]
NaMoWriMo – Week 5
Arghhh. One of the things I learned a long time ago was when a creative idea lands in my head, I either do something with it right away – as in kill it or I wind up adopting it as my own. That adoption is often not deliberate but it is no less effective for [...]
NaMoWriMo Week 4
You’re right, there wasn’t a week three in the organizational process. Sigh… Work continues however as my note in Week Two-ish indicated. I’ve taken several more steps since then but no words or story is close to appearing. The first was to realize the tiny-wee-editor who sits in judgement of my writing was very unhappy [...]
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