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What does it mean
When the book you’re reading telling you “how to get a book published” is the only book the author OF THAT book has in print?
Update on my “fireside chats with successful people” idea.
I Actually don’t intend to call it that–I mean why would I want to dump Franklin D. Out of his originality chair? I unexpectedly got my first hit the other day–an email from an author whose work I am … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged AMC, author, dead, interview, publishing, walking, writiing, zombies
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Chuck Taylors, ukuleles, and my own sanity.
I really wish I was a one-note samba. I mean it. I wish I had one ability, one passion, one benevolent, artistic master to which I paid supplication and deference. But that isn’t me. One minute I’m a blogger. The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film Making, Guitar, Music, Ukulele, Writing
Tagged Blogging Advice, Jake Shimabukuro, publicity, publishing, Self publishing, Skype, ukulele instruction, writing
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My favorite guitar solo of all time
Growing up in a varied and independent pentecostal/charismatic circle of spiritual youth-rearing had many cool side-effects. Not the least of which was the ability to pursue music that was loud, melodic and passionate. At age thirteen, I bought my first … Continue reading
Posted in Guitar, Music, Writing
Tagged Angus Young, Black Sabbath, C.S. Lewis, George Lynch, Glenn Kaiser, Guitar Solo, publishing, Rainbow's End, Resurrection band, Stu Heiss, Van Halen
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Comments, re-blogging, and the gratuitous traffic grab
Any engaged writer that has ever sat and Googled “How can increase my blog traffic” soon realized: the sites you are sent to did the same thing once and figured out that making a blog about increasing web traffic does … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog traffic, Blogging Advice, Ghost Adventures, novel writing, promotion, publicity, publishing, Reading, Self publishing, Twitter, writing, Zak Bagans
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Exercise: The six-word horror story
A while back, I saw a favorite blogger of mine–someone who does what’s called an “overnight thread” make a brief pass at this subject. It was an exercise such as this one in which a full story arc can be … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Bible, Blogging Advice, Jesus, novel writing, publishing, revelation, Self publishing, writer's block, writing
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This momentum thing can get addicting (Oh, and WHAT ABOUT posting one’s work to the blog?)
All right. Seems like trying to pinch the germ of an idea out of one’s cerebral petrie dish is the hard part. I’m already a chapter in to my work. For me–THIS is the comparative cakewalk. Those that have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Blogging Advice, novel writing, publicity, publishing, Self publishing, Tesla, writer's block, writing
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