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deadlines and the art of writing
I doubt you can even create something good while your whole system believes you’re in danger. I don’t know about you, but I need peace and quiet to write. Outside and inside. No noise. The only sounds I wanna hear when I’m writing are the whisper of a muse, the dialogues of my characters, and the voice of my mind echoing the words that I type.
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some thoughts about indie vs traditional publishing (2021)
But indie publishing means you’re in control of everything about your book. You can publish it right now if you want and if it’s complete. Actually, you can publish it exactly as it is.
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how to earn the title of author when all we do is write
We write and we put our words on paper. No matter what kind of paper that is or if it’s even real paper in the first place. The same question pops up anyway. How do I go from writing to becoming an author?
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easy come, easy go, a letter
I start this one with, “I miss you. And I’m not gonna lie, I tried to find you everywhere after you’re gone. To try to win you back. But I guess you’re gone forever now.”
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a tale of two cups of coffee and how to improve your creative craft
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. I know. I’d just come out of bed, still trying to figure out my mood. It was morning. That, I can rest assured. For I was craving coffee, and…
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the write structure and you in a hero’s journey
It starts with a dilemma. A moment in the story when the character is faced with a difficult choice between two either good or bad things. We begin with dilemmas because they center stories.
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I took a break from reading for a while
I don’t believe there’s such a thing as a reading slump or writer’s block. What I know is that life sometimes gets so overwhelming and automatic that you don't want to read, you don't want to write, social media and other distractions become dull or even a burden for you, and
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on choosing a path between noise and stories
Thought: when our writing lacks a good story, this might lead to noisy and random content instead of something that our readers will mindfully consume and perceive.
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rereading is madness. but who knows where madness lies?
How many times do you find yourself reading a book you’ve already read? ...again? And if that happens a lot, what do you think you’re gonna find when doing that?
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we should reverse engineer the books we read in order to write better
Is that how you improve your writing? Pick a book, disassemble it, examine it, analyze it in detail, discover the concepts of its structure, produce something similar, pick a new book, repeat.
