NaNoWriMo: Writing For the Digital Bookshelf

The Indie Author. So many challenges, so much to learn. So much to watch out for, so much to take responsibility for.

And so much fun!

One big plus to the Indie movement is the ability to write what you love instead of writing to editorial or marketing department demands. This means the readers are [...]

The Slow Build – Examples

Victorine Lieske put together a great blog post showing the slow build many Indie authors go through with their sales. No, not every Indie publishes and starts selling a lot of books. A lot don’t even sell more than a few books… at first.

It goes to show that patience, diligence and persistence really does [...]

Publetariat’s April Hamilton Needs Help

Publetariat is a wonder full free source of information for the Indie author/publisher community. Not only did April L. Hamilton set up a wonderful website that has helped a lot of people, but she has remained open to the community to answer questions and help newbies along as they dip their toes into the new [...]

Nice Link to a Creativity Workshop for Ideas

It seems that at some point in January the plug-in for WordPress stopped forwarding the same post to my Livejournal account. This is a post to see if it is now working.

And since I don’t want a completely boring post to be out there, I thought I would offer a nice link. “Creativity Workshop: [...]

Inkygirl Outline Poll Results Are In!

A while ago Inkygirl posted a poll about whether writers outlined before they started to write. I responded along with 108 other writers, and the results are now in! 48% said they used an outline. 29% said no, and 32% said it’s too complicated for just a yes/no answer.

Hop on over to “Better To [...]

Goal Setting For Writers – Do YOU Have one?

Bob Mayer Posted “Goal Setting For Writers” at Genreality yesterday. This year of writing for me has been all about goals. Making them, working towards them and achieving them. Here soon I’m going to take a first look at how I compare to the 5 Year Plan I posted a while back. See where I’m [...]

“First (Professional) Novel Survey” by Jim C. Hines – Do You Qualify?

Jim C. Hines is doing a “First (Professional) Novel Survey”. If you have a novel that has provided at least a $2000 advance, he would love to have you fill out the survey. He’s already had quite the response, but he’s hoping for more genre variety. He’s looking for brand new authors and grizzled veterans [...]

A Novel Before Nano – And A Bout of Exhaustion

Yes, I’m nuts. Trying to finish a novel before Nano starts. In one way that’s a very good thing. Gearing up to Nano means the mind and muse are raring to go at writing. But you can’t start until November 1st. By having another project it satisfies that writing ‘itch’.

The bad part is: For [...]

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Where the Purple Grass Grows

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