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Self-publishing authors are experts at spinning plates, splitting their time between writing, editing, publishing, and marketing. Happily, every so often you get the rare plate that almost spins itself, requiring the bare minimum of attention to keep working in your favor. That’s the reading order checklist – a short list of your work that takes fifteen minutes to set up and then only needs to be …
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Referred to as “one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century,” Roald Dahl still doesn’t get the credit he’s owed. Not only a prolific author of children’s literature – with books including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Witches, and The Gremlins – Dahl also wrote more than sixty adult short …
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Genre labels aren’t always useful, but properly utilized, they can help budding authors determine the type of writing they want to bring into the world. In few places is that more necessary than with bizarro fiction, a subgenre of weird writing so unusual that ‘bizarre’ is in the name. That’s why, in this article, I’ll be taking a look at how to identify bizarro fiction and how to use that …
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To launch a productive writing career, self-publishing authors need every advantage going. Inspiration is fleeting, free time seldom remains free, and success hinges on being your own editor, marketer, and publisher, all after you’re done being an author. Under such conditions, it’s important to make life easier – to set yourself up with a space conducive to writing, to work with other indie …
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I may as well admit it now: Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy was, of all the books I read last year, my favorite. It’s clever, serious fiction, but it’s silly, satisfying, and stylish too – it liberally plucks tropes, clichés, and ideas from different genres and plays with then, and its interweaving plotlines wrap around one another before uniting in strange and satisfying ways. Then there’s the …
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Free writing is a popular technique that can help you brainstorm, break through writer’s block, exercise your writing muscles, and get in the zone for less free-form work. By writing for a set period without concern for spelling, grammar, structure, or even subject, you can strip away the doubts and niggles that hold your writing back, and adopting this technique could even help you finish your …
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