What You Should Know to Get Started Writing Fiction After over 6 months on this Great Fiction Writing Challenge, the acid-testing has resulted in some data being proved solid, and others have dropped by the wayside. All I want to talk about here is just writing. Marketing is a completely different animal, and has far too many cooks to make any decent broth from just one … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 29 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 29 Results Shifting gears with email oopsies, a rise in unsubscribes with the IF change, while finding and handling the hidden IF freeloaders… Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free –0 – paid – 23362 (note: this means I'm producing nearly a half-NaNoWriMo novel in a week.) Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 2508 – paid – … [Read more...]
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 26 Results
The Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 26 Results One of my fiction books hit a giveaway feature. And always trying new things… Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 0 – paid – 25623 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – – paid – 0 Subscribers: Mailerlite: 22 (non-IF), MailChimp: 2, Instafreebie – 825 New Total: 2704 Book sales this week: Amazon – 4, … [Read more...]
Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 25 Results
Great Fiction Writing Challenge – Week 25 Results Halfway through. Probably time to see what our progress has been… Metrics Published Words Fiction: – free – 5912 – paid – 308829 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – 7079 – paid – 0 Subscribers: Mailerlite: 241, MailChimp: 3, Instafreebie – 504 New Total: 2315 (had to jump up to my next range on … [Read more...]
The Rise of the Cozy, Clean Fiction Novel – Profitable Escapes
The Rise of the Cozy, Clean Fiction Novel - Profitable Escapes I have organized a lot of Instafreebie Giveaways. And I join as many as my books will fit into. (See my Free Books page for a current list.) The biggest disappointment is when I put in the first line of the description "Sweet/Clean/Cosy Only, Please") or some variation. And then get bodice rippers and graphic … [Read more...]
Writing: Our Idea of Reality – Earl Nightingale
Writing: Our Idea of Reality - Earl Nightingale Another essay by Earl Nightingale from the How to Completely Change Your Life Series Let me quote something found in Carl Sandburg’s account of the Kansas sodbuster. Who was that early sodbuster in Kansas? He leaned at the gate post and studied the horizon and figured out what corn might do next year and tried to calculate why … [Read more...]
On Writing a Speech – Earl Nightingale
On Writing a Speech - Earl Nightingale Another essay by Earl Nightingale from the How to Completely Change Your Life Series The person who does a lot of speaking will usually have a fine library and be a good reader and have a good working knowledge of his language. If you’re writing a speech and you’re not sure of your grammar, especially syntax, have a person who’s more … [Read more...]
Writing Cliffhangers, Part III: False Trails and Red Herrings
Writing Cliffhangers, Part III: False Trails and Red Herrings Refs: Writing Cliffhangers, Part II Writing Cliffhangers: Learning from Louis L'Amour You can get quite a learning experience from studying texts about writing (and workshops and courses) from writers who are also-rans. And that includes reading their genre-specific fiction. As Theodore Sturgeon points … [Read more...]
Writing: The Most Important Element – Earl Nightingale
Writing: The Most Important Element - Earl Nightingale Another essay by Earl Nightingale from the How to Completely Change Your Life Series “What is the single most important element necessary to make an effective speech - or book?” I don’t think that’s a difficult question at all. The most important element necessary to make any communication effective is to be interesting. … [Read more...]
