Squeezing Reading Into Your Life And why you should try. All authors are told to read more. We’re told that frequently. Most of us came to writing because of a love of reading, so reading a lot was never the issue. As soon as the ambition to write fiction is born, and we start to […]
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In June last year, I went on a bit of a tirade here on PIFW about preceding participle phrases. I also dumped upon readers on Medium. But my distaste for this sentence structure goes back a long way before I said so publicly. And it turns out, I’m not the only writer/editor who abhors preceding
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Indie Authors make money from their backlist, not the latest release. How are you managing YOUR backlist? The first thing readers do, once they’ve read some of your work and liked it, is immediately look for anything else you’ve written. Especially if you write in series, readers will binge on that series, then inhale your entire
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20 Tips to Become Super-Prolific 2022 Edition A version of this post appeared in 2018. This edition has been updated. Whole books have been written and courses have been taught on the art and science of prolificacy. A short post on the essentials can only skim the surface, but each step will offer an entry
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How many words you write in a single hour is the atomic number for fiction writers. When you’ve been keeping a writing log for a while, the number becomes a highly accurate predictor of how much you can write in any single hour, no matter the circumstances. Once you have calculated this number, your whole
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Whenever writers talk to me about being prolific, the objections writers raise tend to slide into two ancillary subjects: Both of these arguments aren’t really arguments at all. They’re 1) a mindset and 2) a choice. Or, really, they’re both just mindsets. They’re damned invasive mindsets, too. Many authors recognize the fallacy of both arguments
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Authors often raise their brows when I mention “Backlist Maintenance”. Maintaining your backlist doesn’t sound sexy. For authors with only a handful of releases, backlist maintenance isn’t a thing. But when you get into the realm of 20 or 50 or (like me) 120+ published titles, backlist maintenance becomes critical. Here’s why. Indies make money
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Actually, it’s not really a pause. The Friday posts that appear here on PIFW are now moving to my Patreon page, where they will appear as soon as I’ve written them. After I’ve absorbed comments and adapted the content (if necessary) or added to it, the posts will eventually appear here. That means it will
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I presume that everyone who reads PIFW posts is a writer of fiction and, therefore, you would be interested in a new anthology calling for submissions. Ignore that the publishing company is mine, if you need to. 🙂 Thriller Digest 2021 In The Nick Of Time Call for Submissions Edited by Mark Posey Stories Rule
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This is Part 3 of an informal series about Pen Names. See Part 1 or Part 2 or Part 3 or Part 4. In the previous posts about pen names, I’ve stayed fairly theoretical; all the reasons you should (and occasionally, shouldn’t) use pen names. As I write this post in June 2020, my stance on the use of pen names
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