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Self-Publishing (opens the original)
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When you’re trying to decide where and how you should publish your book, self-publishing will inevitably enter the conversation. And, unfortunately, so will the arguments about it.There has been a debate for years about whether self-published authors are “real” authors. There are still people who believe that if you didn’t go through a traditional publishing house, you took the easy route. The assumption is that you self-published because you couldn’t get an agent, couldn’t get a publishing deal
Writing Everyday... (opens the original)
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You Don’t Have to Write Every Day to Be a Successful WriterThere is a piece of writing advice that gets repeated so often that it has practically become a commandment:If you want to be a successful writer, you need to write every day.And every time someone says it, the discussion begins. Not everybody has time to write every day. Some people have full-time jobs. Some have children. Some are juggling multiple careers. Some struggle with discipline, while others simply aren’t motivated to write ev
Every Draft Has a Different Job (opens the original)
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One of the easiest ways to make writing miserable is to expect your first draft to do the job of your final draft.You’re trying to figure out the story while worrying about whether the dialogue sounds natural. You’re questioning the plot while fixing commas. You’re rewriting the same paragraph twelve times even though there’s a decent chance you’ll delete the entire scene two drafts from now.Stop making one draft do six jobs.Every draft has a different purpose, and once you understand what you’r
Your Reader Can’t Read Your Mind (opens the original)
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In a NutshellYour reader only knows what you put on the page, not the context, research, or intentions still sitting in your head.What feels like “common knowledge” to you may only feel obvious because of your experience and expertise.Give readers enough context to follow you without overexplaining, and never mistake confusion for a failure on their part before checking the writing.Your Readers Don’t Know What You MeantThere is a particularly frustrating moment that happens to writers when someo
Enemy of Writers (opens the original)
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Writer’s block gets blamed for a lot. When the words stop coming, the project stalls, or a writer spends three hours staring at a blinking cursor instead of actually writing, it is easy to point at writer’s block as the enemy. It even sounds comforting because writer’s block is something happening to us. We can wait for inspiration to return, try a new writing exercise, change our environment, or complain that the muse has apparently taken an extended vacation.But I don’t think writer’s block is
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