Characters, even fictional ones, have to come from somewhere, and making characters feel real requires using a lot from life. The characters are all fictional, but there are traits borrowed from various people I know including myself.
Marion Stein – 7 January 2013 Continue reading
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Don’t be in such a hurry. EDIT … It takes longer to do a good edit job than it does to write the first draft.
Tony McFadden – 3 January 2013 Continue reading
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Oh man am I winging it. I thought the hard part would be to assemble something people could read. Getting the word out is where I feel so lost.
J. Rudolph – 27 December 2012
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I think my self-published books are just as well-written and edited as my traditionally published books and I doubt most readers could tell the difference without looking up the name of the publisher for each title.
Beth Orsoff – 21 December 2012 Continue reading
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If my hubby interrupts me, I go into a right old strop even if he is just bringing me a cup of tea because I haven’t stopped all day. What an ungrateful old boot I am.
Carol E. Wyer – 17 December 2012 Continue reading
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… goriness can be offensive. The hardest part about this is that I’m not trying to offend anyone. Violence is a part of the world and therefore violence finds itself in a story. It’s no different than how love and laughter finds itself in a story.
C. W. Schultz – 12 December 2012 Continue reading
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There is one other character in the book that is strictly based on his real world personality and that is me. My brother needed a sidekick and who better to play that role than his real life author brother? I had fun with my character and made myself omniscient.
C. J. West – 10 December 2012 Continue reading
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What has been considered rotten style once is our habitual way to write now, and what was a flashy, elaborate style in the past, is now considered obscure or downright unintelligible.
Simon Brenncke – 29 Nov 2012 Continue reading
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If you want to be read, you’ve got to get your book out there. The reading public doesn’t come to you, you have to go to it. Writing the book is only part of the story, the other parts are getting it published and getting it read.
Rita Plush 24 Nov 2012 Continue reading
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Don’t put your book out there without letting several (and I mean more than two) people read and critique it. Cover art is very important to a book’s success… look at other books in your target market. Thicken up your skin, you will be judged.
S.L. Baum – 1 September 2012 Continue reading
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