This might be another of those moments 2007 was the year Amazon released their first Kindle eReader, and indie publishing took a light-year’s leap forward. I’ve often wondered if I would be any more successful if I’d jumped into indie publishing in 2007, rather than waiting another four years to commit. If you’ve ever said anything […]
10 Unexpected Ways Writing Fiction Helps Readers It’s MUCH More Than Simply Entertainment If you’ve written and published a lot of fiction, there’s a good chance that somewhere along the way you’ve had a dark night of soul–where you’ve questioned why on earth you’re putting yourself through this torture day after day, only to hear
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5 Powerful Reasons Why Indie Fiction Writers Should Keep Work Logs They’re not sexy, but essential if you want to get more written Is there anything more geeky than a fiction writer keeping a word count log? I mean, we know when the novel is finished when we reach the end of the story. At
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Continuing on from yesterday with the final seven reasons why you should write lots of fiction, as quickly as possible. 15. You improve faster. I’ve actually seen this idea phrased as “fail faster”, but there’s really no such thing as “failure” in writing, unless failure is used as a euphemism for quitting. There are books
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Continuing on from yesterday with the next seven reasons why you should write lots of fiction, as quickly as possible. 8. One sucky book is not the end of your business. This is related to the previous two points. Sometimes, you have to cut your losses. I have a few books like this. I wandered
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If you’re not already a prolific fiction author, and the whole idea of writing multiple books a year seems like way too much work, keep reading. If you’re already a prolific author, you might not have thought of all of these advantages, and may not have deliberately applied them as strategies, either. I won’t open
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J. Michael Straczynski’s Income Advice For Writers Not just for hard times. Are you putting all your eggs in one creative basket? In Becoming A Writer, Staying A Writer, J. Michael Straczynski spoke of the Three Legged Stool Theory, proposing that all writers need at least three streams of revenue and three streams of creative expression,
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And Now…AI Artwork. What Does This Mean For Indie Publishing? Actually, for all graphic work, everywhere? Earlier this month, Cosmopolitan released a digital issue of their magazine that included an AI-designed cover. At the time of writing this, I could not find the issue for sale anywhere, but found multiple articles on the building of
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One More Reason To Be A Prolific Writer And why this one will be critical in the future No matter what you write, writing a lot comes with benefits. Authors like Nicolas Cole and Dickie Bush make excellent cases for writing quantities of non-fiction. I’ve spent years and written dozens of posts exploring the benefits
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Most story ideas, even the coolest of them, are just ideas. Here’s an idea I grabbed off a random plot generator I found online: An action thriller set in New York in the 1980s about a dying cop with a secret, trying to do a heist. Now there’s some intriguing ideas in this one. More
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