On Giving Away Free Novels Check out this guy: Let’s not beat a dead horse here: This is a stupid idea and if you’ve read more than three articles on this blog it’s statistically impossible for you to not understand my opinion is don’t work for free. Yet this whole “Give away freebies” persists….
Writing Characters Of The Opposite Gender I couldn’t think of a topic to write about today, so I browed Reddit’s writing section. This is always a mistake. I wouldn’t advise anyone use it for actual writing advice – it is populated by people who aren’t very successful at writing who give a lot of advice…
Learning From Fiction Over on Twitter earlier, I saw someone had tweeted that you learn more from fiction than non-fiction. Is that true? Let’s find out. Mythology and Humans Humans learn from fiction. Fiction likely began as parable and gnomic wisdom. Gnomes and parables are essentially mnemonic devices. Yet there are two problems with using…
Yesterday I answered a question by reader Al on creating niche sites. I’m back again to answer more questions from Al. This time on publishing as an author. (The focus is on fiction, but it’ll work for anything where you sell books.) Al commented on this post from way back in 2015. Times change, and…
The Problem With Traditional Publishing – Specifically Agents Over on Twitter, I saw fellow copywriter and friend of the blog Lynn Swayze had retweeted a thread on traditional publishing. Specifically, it was an agent’s perspective on why people failed to find representation when it came to getting their book published. The thread was good –…
Is My Work Here Done? It’s coming to the end of the year and I have been wondering about keeping the daily posts going. At times it feels as though I’ve covered every conceivable angle so far as professional writing is concerned. That’s among other reasons, but I feel as though my work is probably…
Book Writing Process Part Two: Things I Forgot Last Time Yesterday I wrote about my current book writing formula. As with any list, the minute you think you’ve finished, you think of some more ideas that you should have included. This article is filled with a couple of things that I forgot to include in…
Writing careers suffer from the same problem as all the others; to get a job writing, you need experience. But you can’t get experience without a job. It’s a catch-22 situation, and it stops a lot of people before they’ve even started. In this article, you’re going to be given some great ideas to kick…
How To Become a Professional Author In 2018 Do you want to make money by selling books in 2018? It’s a good idea. Books are relatively easy to create, and can make you a solid return on your time invested. The overheads are next to zero – and provided you have a computer and a…
A Twitter follower asked for help on fiction-writing success. Coming off the back of a niche site tweet about creating assets for passive income, he asked how to approach doing so with fiction. In particular, he wanted to know about writing serials, marketing books and getting people invested in the world he has created. That’s…