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Tag Archives: Self publishing
Okay, Maybe I Have to Re-Write (and how my habit of trolling may get me published)
Today is the day that I stare into the narcolepsy-inducing abyss of needing to re-write my book. The main reason is simply because the next phase will me more laborious than the actual creative process– and this has to do … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Books, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Blogging, Mark Twain, novel writing, publishing, Self publishing, writer's block, writing
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I’ll shank a fool before I self-publish
This writing process thing–and by that I mean the fiction/novel crucible, is a bit daunting. When I started out thinking I was going to use this “down time” to write a book, I first went into Barnes & Noble, and started … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Uncategorized
Tagged book, books, novel writing, Self publishing, writing
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Re-writing Is for Suckers
Actually having finished a rough draft of an entire book is a shock to the system for me. I talked all kinds of smack about it five years ago. I had all kinds of MS-13-level bravado about it. I had … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writing
Tagged novel writing, publishing, Self publishing, writing
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. . . and my book is finished.
37 days from the start of this ridiculous, Iditarod-level lunacy. 47, 000 words, with at least another five waiting in elaborative revisionary addenda to concepts and scenes I refused to bog down in the initial process. Rewrite is next. Probably … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Novel writing, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged books, novel writing, publicity, publishing, Self publishing, writing, young adult fiction
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Chapter 1–The Mural
The mural had become a part of the background noise. Elementary schools nearly always have murals, and this one was no different. Oak Valley Elementary School’s mural was a known quantity–an accepted part of the historical record. Painted in the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Novel writing, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged book, books, novel, novel writing, publishing, Self publishing, writing
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Whoa. Seven chapters in already? Must be a stroke.
I’ve spent considerable time on this blog, not only writing a fulsome, scurvy heap of odd things, like this long-form essay about Billy Squier’s meteoric fall from musical grace, and use it basically try to foment discord, distrust, and division … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Blogging advice, Novel writing, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged book, books, bucket list, novel writing, publishing, Self publishing, writer's block, writing
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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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Finally, the step out . . .
I have this friend named Stu, who told me his conversations go like this: “I’m headed to work today. Can’t wait to get there.” “Why, what are you going to do?” “Play Ukulele all day, and you?” This doesn’t necessarily … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Guitar, Music, Ukulele, Writing
Tagged Guitar, novel writing, promotion, Self publishing, teaching, ukulele, Victor Wooten, writing
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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
Posted in Writing
Tagged Blog traffic, Blogging Advice, Ghost Adventures, novel writing, promotion, publicity, publishing, Reading, Self publishing, Twitter, writing, Zak Bagans
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