Why do we tell ourselves pretty little stories so that we can live with our decisions? Make it stop.
Life is Short
It seems I’m developing a theme for Hump Day, today…
Leave If They Always Betray Your Trust
Learn how to lead your heart; start recognizing when something isn’t good for you and be strong enough to let it go. A person can only waste the time if you give them an opportunity to waste. Stop trying to open doors for people who constantly shut you out. Make sure the interest is shown in the effort, the talk is supported by the actions, and the trust is earned through the consistency. — Robert Hill Sr.
I Just Published my Book. Now What?
So much excellent advice as always. Take it all in because everything here matters.
First of all, congratulations! You’re now a published author – and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
Second, you’d be amazed how often I hear that question in LinkedIn’s author groups. With some 3,000 new books published every day, I have serious doubts that you can just sit back and wait for readers to stumble on your book, or for word of mouth to work its magic. The chances of that happening are probably similar to that of winning the lottery, in which case you don’t even need the long hours and hard work that goes hand-in-hand with a career as an author (if you don’t believe me, you may want to check out this post by Pedro Barrento on Indies Unlimited).
So, what are the next steps after publication? Before I can answer that, I need to ask one question of my own first: is this your first book? You see…
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Jump into vortex!
Get INSPIRED by Authors who Know.
Stuck for ideas? Words not flowing? Need a break? Or some good old inspiration?
What better inspiration than a series of talks about the process of writing and what it means to write.
Here is the link to a TED playlist of 10 talks from authors like Isabel Allende and Melissa Gilbert, speaking about
- creativity, passion, and the process of writing,
- the power of language and narrative in writing,
- the importance of contemplation and reflection to a writer’s life,
- the bane of every writer’s life (at one point or another) – fear and doubt, and how to channel them,
- the inextricable link between art and living, and the creative life.
Hope you find them inspirational, or at the least, entertaining.
Enjoy!
– Florence
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A Writer’s Guide to NaNoWriMo- Part 2!
This is great! To the point and down and dirty. We all have to find our own way but that doesn't mean we can't use some great pointers or guidelines. Thank you for sharing!
…a dedication to all the fallen, and particularly to Cpl Nathan Cirillo in the face of the recent madness…
…I don’’t often cut and paste my Facebook posts as blog pieces, but so many people have asked me to do so with the post I made on there yesterday, in the hope that the message may go viral… if yeez wish to share it, please do so… LUV YEEZ!… here’s the post:
…the older I become, the less rational the world appears… I care not for the arguments and posturing that dress themselves as nationalistic, religious, political or downright greed… when a young man standing HONOUR GUARD in memory of those fallen in horrendous global conflicts around the planet is gunned down under some pretence of a deluded fanatic’s ‘righteousness’, my soul screams out, ‘Enough’! ….how present are the words of the song that ask ‘when will they ever learn?’ ..the ‘they’ being all of the creeds, nutters, even well-meaning hawks of all nationalities… last year, I unashamedly…
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NaNoWriMo Time
Awesome advice. This will be my first year of Nano. I’m so thankful for this insight!
I took part in the NaNoWriMo event in 2012, and completing that crazy, epic sprint to the end taught me more than I expected about the job of writing. First and foremost is the daily word quota. The more you fall behind, the less chance you have of catching up, and writing just under 1 700 words a day seems daunting. The thing is, that most of us write more words than that every day without thinking about it. We blog, we interview, we write bits of our works in process. It’s absolutely doable though.
The beauty of the NaNo is that you get to leave chunks out. You just pop over anything you’re not sure of and write on, because editing during NaNo is death. The urge to go back and at least read over what I’d written so far nearly took me out, but I knew that if…
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