BLACK FRIDAY TWO-SENTENCE STORY CHALLENGE Flash fiction is supposed to be short and fast, and it doesn’t get much faster than two sentences! But it’s a holiday weekend here so I wanted to make this fun. (I saw this on CS Wilde’s blog and LOVED the idea. I spent longer thinking about my two sentence […]
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Every year at Thanksgiving, when we were kids, my whole family would assemble for a long day of playing football in the back yard, followed by a fantastic, huge Thanksgiving feast. All of the neighborhood kids will remember the great football games, because it was an annual occasion where, regardless…
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Video: The Turkey Song
Our friend Jessica Marie Baumgartner has a special Thanksgiving treat for you! Thanks for being a good sport, Jessica!
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Happy Thanksgiving!
It’s turkey day here in the US of A, so I’ll be over at the in-laws after making some of my famous (INSERT RECIPE HERE). It occurs to me that you guys in Canada have already HAD your Thanksgiving. And I don’t even know if my friends Down Under or in Great Britain celebrate Thanksgiving. […]
If you wrote a book and published it, congratulations! You’re a small business owner, and entrepreneur. A budding capitalist. You write your product. That’s cool! Then, you sell your product. So… you’re a salesperson. Ugh. Most of you NEVER wanted to be salespeople. Your book/books are your business, and […]
I expected to get a ton of writing done at Christmas last year. NOTHING got done! NOTHING!!! Writer’s slump? Maybe. Don’t you HATE it when the words aren’t flowing, or you can’t get motivated to write? Or other writing related hurdles? The thing is, it passes. Think […]
Occasionally a new author will write me with a question or problem and I’ll answer it here so we can all learn. Dear Dan, I went to a writers’ conference last weekend (which was kind of intimidating) but I learned a lot about writing technique and learned some things about myself. I’m not a […]
If you look at some author groups on Facebook, you hear a lot of complaints: no sales, no reviews, no royalties, marketing is hard… Apparently, life sucks for authors. DO NOT BUY INTO THIS CRAP! Complaining about book sales is a bitchfest designed to… do what, exactly? COMPLAINER: […]
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Toughest Writing Challenge EVER
This is your chance to have a little fun and learn about some of the interesting people that read this blog. You’ve seen me do interviews with authors. Some are new, some are established; I have a series of 51 “standard” questions for them to choose from and then I follow up with what […]
It never hurts to get a reminder like this. We all have crutch words. I say, write what ya gotta write, THEN go swap out your repeats and crutches when you’re finished. Here are some to watch out for.
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