Tag: self-publishing
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How to Track Your Writing With a Spreadsheet
Happy New Year! It’s resolutions time, and I thought I would share a little bit about what I’m doing to optimize my writing process this month with Google Sheets. I would use Excel but this project doesn’t call for anything fancy. Why a spreadsheet? Can’t you just write a thousand words a day and call…
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Underwriting vs. Overwriting: My Philosophy
Who cares? Just kidding. Almost. What is underwriting or overwriting? They’re pretty self-explanatory, but just so we’re on the same page, here we’re talking about novels. Underwriters create a draft that has less than what the final demands, and overwriters stuff in all the detail plus its dog and family. We’re going to explore both…
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Song of Kardu is Published: Some Publishing Updates
It was a soft rollout for the most part on May 12, 2025. Admittedly, being a debut author putting his name out to the world for the first time means I know that I’m going to make mistakes and that each step of the journey is going to be a learning point. I got a…
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Finding Readers: Two Roads on the Publishing Adventure
Resolutions, humbug. I don’t think Scrooge said that, but he probably would. The man was all about a busy, moneymaking life, but he was also a real case of the pessimizers. I just made up that word. Love it or hate it, it’s on the page. Also, more about Dickens later. Recently, I wrote an…
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My Journey to Earning 20 Thousand a Month as a Writer
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein So that’s my goal, plain and simple, live life as a writer that earns a nice twenty thousand dollar signs monthly. You could argue that money is a thing and therefore can’t be a…
