Writing, self-publishing, book marketing, making a living with your writing
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We are writers, so we can sometimes take it for granted that communicating is easy. But for many people, it can be almost impossible and it takes a special person to enable silent voices to be …
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In March 2017, I got on a train in Chicago with J. Thorn, Lindsay Buroker, and Zach Bohannon. We headed south to New Orleans and within a week, we had the first draft of a novel, published a month …
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Today I have an interview with screenwriter Adam Gaines. We discuss what happens in the 'writer's room', collaboration, how self-publishing his own one-act play got him a deal, as well as how you …
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Characters are important in every book you write because people care about people and you need to get personal as soon as possible in your writing. As EB White said, "Don't write about Man. Write …
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You must hook a reader early on because there are plenty of other books to read and life is too short to read a book that doesn't engage you. Suspense is one technique you can use, and in today's …
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I started writing journals in 1990. I was 15, and I dreamed of being a novelist. But I didn't seriously commit to writing my first novel until 2009 when I was 34, nearly 20 years later. Sure, …
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