If you wanna get right to the challenge skip down to where it says “FLASH FICTION CHALLENGE!” It is Christmas time! And as most of you know, there are a lot of Christmas specials on TV. And most of them suck. Honestly, A Mom For Christmas? Look, I liked Olivia Newton John as […]
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We all know there are dozens of things we’re supposed to be doing as authors in addition to writing. We talk about it here all the time. One of the important items is building a mailing list. That way, YOU are the source for information on your books and not a website or online retailer […]
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I got featured on Indie Plot Twist! How cool is that? There are lots of ways to find followers and get a little recognition. Indie Plot Twist is all over Twitter because they have an innovative way of incorporating your post with clickable tweets that send out the highlights of your message. I found the […]
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: […]
I remember reading A Tale Of Two Cities in school and being partly fascinated with it. I don’t pretend I grasped the complexities of the novel at that age, maybe eighth grade or freshman year in high school, but I remember it read a lot like a soap opera – and our teacher informed us […]
. Simple enough, huh? When you get somebody to be honest about this, you learn about them. When you’re honest about this yourself, you learn about you. When you dissect it, you learn about writing. What the author or screenwriter did to make you cry was a series of repeatable steps that you can learn […]
I know people who use Virtual Assistants and swear by them, and I know a lot of authors who are swamped with trying to run a blog and Twitter and Instagram and Pinterest and Snapchat, etc., and still find time to write – but don’t think they can delegate any of these tasks, and don’t […]
Occasionally I get a question from a fellow author with a problem and I answer it here. Dear Dan, My novel is still in its first draft. It´s long, I still have to finish it, and I write a LOT every day, but there´s still a lot of time before it will be published. Many […]
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Flash Fiction Challenge: Add A Line
I have always wanted to do a challenge like this. While this may not technically be flash fiction, since there’s no real definition of flash fiction, well then this definitely is flash fiction. Below is a chunk of my new story, The Water Castle. I’ll set the stage and walk away. You take over from […]
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