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Deep Work – Productivity Boosts For Writers and Creatives

Non-fiction Book Reviews - Publishing, On Writing

Everybody has been talking about Cal Newport’s book, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World so I finally decided to get the Audible for it. It’s amazing. He’s a computer science professor who usually writes books for high...

What’s Your Passion Project? What Will You Do to Get it Made?

Helpful Podcasts, On Writing

We went to Alexander Hamilton last weekend. I was absolutely blown away. Then I bought the CD Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)(Explicit)(2CD) and have played it in the car non-stop since then. If you haven’t been following the hype, it is a hip hop...

I Gained 10x More Readers Standing On The Shoulders of Giants

Non-fiction Book Reviews - Publishing, On Writing, Resources

I’m active in a few writer groups on Facebook. The other day a video by an author who had hit the NYT and USA Today bestseller list 33 times was making the rounds. This video was of her presentation entitled “Capturing the Golden Goose: How to Sell a Bazillion...

Want to Speed up Your Next Writing Session? Try This One Simple Thing.

On Writing

Write yourself a letter. What do I mean by that? When I finish my writing session, I leave myself a note at the bottom of the scene with bullet points of what I want to accomplish the next time I sit down to write. That’s it. Nothing magical. It’s like...

How To Write An Assassination Story In 5 Steps

On Writing

A writing group I’m in came up with a plan. We were all going to write an assassin’s tale in our respective worlds as part of an omnibus. I write military sci fi set in the near future. How hard could this be? Ok, so it was hard. My title was total clickbait. Anyone...

DIY Package Templates from Creative Indie Saved My Sanity

Resources

It’s not going to be a surprise when I say, I like to write. But these days, being a writer also means that you need to tackle a host of other areas, such as marketing your books. I’m learning the ropes of book marketing, but mostly just concentrating on...

Using Amazon to Market Your Books For You – Six Figure Author by Chris Fox

Non-fiction Book Reviews - Publishing, On Writing

That’s my alternative title to Chris Fox’s Six Figure Author: Using Data to Sell Books: Write Faster, Write Smarter: Premise: this book is largely about using Amazon’s algorithms because iBooks isn’t doing anything like this (yet). What I...

The Story Grid Workshop with Shawn Coyne

On Writing, Resources

People like me need structure. Even if I did write my entire NaNoWriMo project by the seat of my pants, I like to know that the overall story spine is there, and that everything works. Listening to the Story Grid podcast all year and working through the book, The...

Writing a Fight Scene? Get it Right.

Non-fiction Book Reviews - Publishing, Resources

Write The Fight Right by Alan Baxter Who doesn’t love a little hand to hand combat? Problem is, if you’re not a brawler yourself, you could spend hours watching and re-watching television and movie fight scenes but still have difficulty describing it when...