HeyJaredThe Fiction Coach
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Broken Promises (opens the original)
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Quick reminder: I want to know what you’re struggling with as a writer so I can focus my posts on precisely those things. That way, these emails that show up in your inbox are actually useful.Take the Survey<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1663045579290-4785a5c424fe?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3wzMDAzMzh8M
Help Me Shape What’s Next (opens the original)
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Put simply, I want The Fiction Coach to help solve problems writers have. So I put together a 3-minute survey to find out what you're struggling with and what you'd actually find useful.If you have a few minutes, I’d appreciate your input. Your responses will directly impact what I provide next.Take the survey →Thanks for reading!<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://images.unsplash
Stop Letting Your Narrator Summarize Everything (opens the original)
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Here’s a short one for the prose writers. (This might impact comic writers who use captions, but while I’ve seen similar problems creep in, I’ve never seen this specific one.)<img alt="text" class="sizing-normal" h
What I Can See and Won't Fix (opens the original)
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Earlier this year I edited a synopsis for a short sci-fi series. Like most drafts, it was good, but not great. But it was the kind of good where I could feel the great one underneath it, waiting.The writer was clearly excited about my notes, but she told me she wasn’t sure she’d finish it. It was as if she had hired me to verify if the story was worth pursuing. To her, the fact I had any comments at all meant it wasn’t.Turns out, a decade ago she made a comic and it didn’t sell well. The way she
I Used to Hate Marketing. Then I Realized What It Actually Is. (opens the original)
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Most writers I’ve worked with hate promotion. Hell, I’m one of them. I’ve always been the guy who loves to write, but once the book’s written, I sort of forget about it.It goes a little deeper than that, though, right? I know how to write. Might even be pretty good at it. But marketing? It’s a whole new world, with different tasks, tools, and expectations. And new is scary.What makes it worse is that The Message I get online is that promotion is soooo easy. “Oh, just do this, this, and this. Boo
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