• Observe your thoughts
• Practice being present
• Get a sex change
• Try something risky
• Thought-provoking question
• Gift a missing part
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• How to choose a setting for your story
• Use caution when shifting story’s location, time
• Avoid placing ‘used furniture’ in your story
• Use care when naming places in your story
• Avoid anachronisms in stories set in past
• Use caution when employing empathic universe
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“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance - that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curiosity- to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.” - William Faulkner
“It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.” - Ernest Hemingway
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“...a writer is the worst judge of his own work.” - Ilsa J. Bick
“Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.” - Charles Bukowski
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A new editing client recently published his first epic fantasy novel. Tanor Costa's "Crown of Delusion" begins when the power-hungry Amar aligns with the Phantom Islands and assassinates King Hamen, allowing him to take absolute control of Elderrock and its dominions. But an elderly mage and the king’s two young nephews escape. Can they rally an unlikely group of allies – Vikings, pirates, Samurai, bandits, and others living on the fringe – to join their cause and retake the kingdom? Can a teenager who’s no older than a boy gain the skills of a warrior and a great leader in time to lead a revolt? The novel - the first book in the planned The Wars of Reckoning Saga - is available online.
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• Sell more books via email marketing campaign
• Build an email list to sell your books
• How to construct your email marketing message
• Try these topics for email marketing campaigns
• How to know if your email marketing is working
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• What is self-publishing and should I try it?
• Self-publishing vs. corporate publishing
• Many famous books first were self-published
• Learn how to self-publish with a 'tester book'
• BONUS: "...not 'How can I get more money?' but 'How can I reach more readers without lowering standards?'"
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• Babysitter vs. baby-sitter
• Councilor vs. counselor
• Co-worker vs. coworker
• Fiancée vs. fiancé
• Mam vs. ma'am
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• Open story with foreshadowing
• Sensuous dissection
• Objects you pass daily
• Observe your thoughts
• Draw upon personal turmoil
• Tell what you feel/desire/need
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• How long is needed to write a professional book?
• Short stories vs. novellas vs. novels
• Mistakes to avoid in a novel series
• Maintain 'fictional dream' when penning novel
• BONUS: "A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down..."
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“If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living.” - John Gardner
“There are no ‘great’ subjects for the creative writer; there are only the singular details of a single human life.” - Richard Selzer
“Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be - if there is to be a world.” - Lorraine Hansberry
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.” - Anaïs Nin
“If you are killed because you are a writer, that’s the maximum expression of respect, you know.” - Mario Vargas Llosa
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