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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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 […]
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: […]
Occasionally a writer reaches out and laments about a writerly problem. Here’s one I received recently that I think is fairly common. . Dear Dan, I recently realized that my writing has slowed to a standstill, not because I’m busy, but because I’m terrified to finish. Help. Scared Storyteller . Dear Storyteller, It’s not uncommon […]
A critique partner and friend recently noted that I’m looking even more prolific the past few days, putting out a few chapters of my story for inquiring eyes at the critique website. Kinda sorta. Now, you know I am a BIG advocate of WRITE EVERY DAY, but I recognized something that you need to know […]
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 […]
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Who Should I Read?
We all have our favorite authors (and some of you have read and enjoyed my stuff), but the question is… If we, as authors, are supposed to “read a lot and write a lot” – not necessarily in that order – to improve our craft, then it stands to reason we should be, well… Reading. […]
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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 […]
We recently talked about these great blogs I’ve been reading that suddenly disappeared. (I was not directly linked to the disappearance of the bloggers in case you were wondering. No charges have been filed.) We thought they might have burned out from too much success. I know, I know: Burn out from too much success? […]
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