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Why Now Is the Best Time to Be an Indie Fiction Writer

/ Futurism, Publishing & Production / 3 minutes of reading / Leave a Comment

Jane Freidman, at her blog just a few days ago, wrote a post, “Like It or Not, Publishers Are Licensing Books for AI Training—And Using AI Themselves.”

The post is a refreshingly blunt take on how AI is settling into the publishing industry. I will leave it to Jane to explain how, even for indie authors, there is new money to made from the AI phenomenon, if you’re smart and wrangle your contracts.

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What Your Daily Word Count Should Be

/ Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Prolificacy, Technology, Tools & AI / 4 minutes of reading

Michael Crichton is my hero.  I only just found out.  Here’s why: I get a lot of email from authors asking how many words a day they should be writing.  I confess that the question puzzles me and I’ve hedge and hummed and fumbled to find a useful answer because the real answer is:  “Whatever

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Another Factor That Might Change Your Mind About Writing to Market

/ Creativity, Discipline & Motivation, Technology, Tools & AI / 3 minutes of reading / 1 Comment

There is a class of Indie author mindset out there that promotes prolific writing, using Kindle Unlimited, launching hard, making sure your Amazon Also Boughts are clean, and writing absolutely to market as the only way to make serious money writing fiction. I did buy into that approach for a year or so.  It seemed

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