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Three Indie Author Success Stories in One Day

by Lou on December 9, 2010 - 1 comment

Image via Wikipedia Synchronicity: J.A.Konrath profiles a paranormal romance writer who’s sold 10,00 copies of her books in a week. Now, Konrath is an Indie Author preacher and evangelical. So maybe he’s just cherry picking a few successful anecdotes, right? Then, Smashwords Blog has an interview with a fantasy author who’s on track to make $200,000 this year with his series fiction. Of course, Smashwords is trying to promote their platform, so they’ll only brag about the runaway successes, right?( …

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Virtual Pulp: Tales of High Adventure, Low Adventure, and Misadventure

by Lou on December 5, 2010 - 1 comment

A great debut and a fun anthology of old-fashioned Pulp adventure stories with a military bent. Henry Brown has a great love for action-adventure and serves up a varied and interesting collection of stories including: – “The Bloodstained Defile”- A sword and sorcery tale that owes a lot to both Howard and Cook’s Black Company -”Barbarian Nation”- Listed as Post apocalypse, I would actually consider it air adventure -”Radical Times”- Historical fiction set in Reconstruction South. Most serious of the …

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35 Day Novel Tracking Chart

by Lou on October 22, 2010 - 1 comment

Fo NaNoWrimo, I wanted a bar graph to track my progress.I wanted something I could post on the wall to motivate me, not some database that I could use for billable hours. I had the chart from the No Plot No Problem writer’s kit, but have used it up on several aborted projects. And anyway, it just didn’t seem flexible enough. So I Opened up Open Office Writer and created a quick couple of tables and frames and twenty minutes …

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Rules for Writing from Masters

by Lou on September 15, 2010 - 0 comments

In Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Kurt Vonnegut gave eight Short Rules for Crafting good fiction that have been copied all over the Web: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. Every sentence must do one of …

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The Best Writing Advice I Never Listened To.

by Lou on September 12, 2010 - 5 comments

Image via Wikipedia 8,000 days. Twenty-two years ago I got the best writing advice I ever received. Advice simple, powerful and profound. Every time I think about it, it humbles me. It’s simple to understand, but difficult to do. It’s the single number one reason I feel that I am still struggling with my writing. Like many would be authors I used to get bogged down in the myth of the writer: that there’s some mysterious alchemical brew of Discipline …

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Quick 2-page Character Sheet for Novel Writing

by Lou on June 27, 2010 - 0 comments

And as promised, here’s a quick Character sheet I did for working out my characters. Basically, it’s an RPG style sheet. At the top is some pertinent story info:  Character’s name, Story Role (Protagonist, Main, Hero, Antagonist, Mentor: Whatever system you’re using). There’s a block for Description and Bio, and one at the end to keep track of plot elements that you might want to keep track of. I tend to keep these short because I’d rather put them into …

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