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Looking outside of myself
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Looking outside of myself – Based on a blog post of EJ Koh I live a bit through you Like a social media update of a poet You’ve taken into your heart It’s like an obsession I treat very kindly I’m almost conditioned to be impatient Seven second attention span…
3 Web Tools for Free Promotion and Beta-Reading
Originally posted on Writing Is Hard Work:
As an indie author, I am always on the lookout for ways to promote my books and make them better. This week I found a few tools on the web that could potentially help me with this process. As always, I thought I’d share: Wattpad – I had…
…look what they’ve done to my Blog, Ma…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqg3kcwAgso …most of my corporate life (yes, Mabel, I did have a parallel existence before being ensnared in Author-dom) spun around numbers… figures… statistics… and it’s well said elsewhere there are Lies, damn Lies, and Statistics… so forgive my wee focus today on what to me are mind-boggling facts about…
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Querying as a Debut Author
Originally posted on Carly Watters, Literary Agent:
I really enjoy talking about debuts. Many debut authors are nervous about their credentials (do I have enough? do they mean anything?), their contacts (who do I have to know? what if I don’t “know” anyone?), and their book (what if it’s not good enough? what if it’s the…
There are a lot of myths about writing, says Sci Fi writer David Brin – ignore them all. Quotes for Writers (and for people who like quotes)
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the…
…addicted to the computer device Age?…who, me?… Author Tess Karlinski nails it…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…speaking with all my communication cards on the table, yes, I’ll ‘fess up… this ol’ Jurassic can hardly go to the washroom without at least the Monster Martinet Mobile Phone, or the Big Bad Bully Blackberry… of course, I can control that at any time, right, Mabel…right?… right?… well, here’ s…
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