Writing Wednesday–Write What You Know
It’s the oldest, most frequently given advice to writers. “Write what you know.” Writers have been rebelling against this advice for years now and they usually end up sounding like pretentious twits...
View ArticleWriting Wednesday–June Projects
I actually have things and stuff to do this month! First of all, I’m going to publish both Gone Missing and Night of the Nothing Man on Amazon. I kind of hoped that Smashwords would be enough, but...
View ArticleWriting Wednesday–Format This
In my quest to accomplish my goals for this month, I need to publish Gone Missing and Night of the Nothing Man on Amazon. My biggest obstacle to this is formatting the stories to be published on...
View ArticleWriting Wednesday–Nothing for The Nothing Man
Please let it be understood that I never figured on becoming some best-selling author through self-publishing (although I will not deny how nice that would be). However, I figured it might be a way to...
View ArticleWriting–Cover Me
I think it should be obvious that I create my own covers for my self-published titles. I also think the reason for that should be obvious: I am poor. I don’t have the money to hire someone to create a...
View ArticleWriting–2014 Writing Goals
Last year my big goals were revising The World (Saving) Series to the point of doneness; submitting seven short stories that were ready and waiting; working on a sooper sekrit project; and turning...
View ArticleWriting–Bestseller, Baby
I am not what you’d call a bestseller in the strictest sense of the word. You wouldn’t even call me that in the very loosest sense of the word. If you add up all of the copies I’ve sold, it wouldn’t...
View ArticleWriting–I Think I Got a Hit
So, Yearly has been selling pretty well, much to my surprise. By selling well, I mean that it sold an average of a copy a day last month (the final count was 33). That’s pitiful if you’re someone else,...
View ArticleWriting–July Projects
It’s official. I am burned out on revising. This revision/rewrite of The Timeless Man has been most successful. I think I’ve fixed most if not all of the major story problems that were plaguing it....
View ArticleWriting–March Projects
You may have noticed the lack of blog posts in the month of February. Or maybe you didn’t. Maybe you didn’t care. Whatever the case, the point is that you can expect random and fewer blog posts to be...
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