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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
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 [...]
Where’s That Unpublish Button
The other day was a bit of a test posting -I wrote a post about Facebook and how I was using it – uploaded it from Pages in my iPad to Dropbox and then thought I’d test out the iPad WordPress app. All’s well and good – everything works as advertised. But then I hit [...]
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 [...]
NaMoWriMo and I Are Done
As a status report on the NaMoWriMo, I’ve been an abject failure. LOL! I mean, here it is the middle of November and there’s not a single word, not one word, committed to electrons in this document. But as an adventure in writing, it’s a tremendous success and I’m enjoying it immensely. So yes, I’m [...]
It’s About The Story
It’s about the story, it’s all about the story and has always been about the story. The stories we tell ourselves determine how We hear the stories of others which reinforces The stories of friends tell us because We don’t listen to stories told by those with disagree with even though They believe their stories [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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