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2011: The Year In Review

I can’t say I’m going to miss 2011, in a lot of ways (for me at least) it’s been an astonishingly crappy year. Between earthquakes, more earthquakes* and a wide variety of the normal stresses of normal life it hasn’t gone to plan at all…  And yet I have to say that it could easily [...]

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The Writer’s Twelve Days Of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a big bottle of whiskey.  On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me… two unfinished novels and a big bottle of whiskey.  On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me… three fancy pens, two unfinished [...]

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Ten Marketing Strategies All Writers Need To Consider

The key word here is “consider”. You don’t have to do any of these, although I certainly recommend you give some of them a try. I’ve geared these towards people who are self publishing, but there is no reason that a legacy published author couldn’t use most of these as long as their editor and [...]

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Networking and Writers

This is another one of those things that I’ve spoken about before but it seems to need to be said again. You don’t need to read huge marketing guides nor sell your soul in order to make networking work for you. In fact there’s just one easy step to networking better than 90% of the [...]

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Ten Things You Need To Know About Writing Conflict

Conflict is one of those nebulous terms that’s applied to writing but isn’t often well explained. Since it’s such a huge part of any story I wanted to put together list of things I wish I’d known about writing conflict when I’d started writing. First off: 1.  You have to have it.  Writing is mostly [...]

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