Tag: writing
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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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World-Building Lessons from Tolkien for Sci-Fi Writers
In sci-fi, an author has to show not only cool applications of science in the future, or alternate history, or whatever branch of sci-fi the author is highlighting, the author needs to paint a picture of the evolution of culture. As the writer, you can look at Tolkien’s painstaking work…
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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…
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The Right Way to Incorporate Technology Into College Studies
You probably know that prioritizing time, eliminating distractions, taking notes, and using friends can all benefit your studies, but what about the ever evolving world of technology and artificial intelligence? That’s a great question that scientists and education experts are going to be studying for a while, and their findings may differ. For the purpose…
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Catching Awesome Insights from Jeff Herman’s Guide to Book Publishers
Let me tell you about a book, but first let me tell you about why I’m reading it. I write, do you? I write a lot of science fiction. Am I published? Sort of, I have a story on Amazon’s Kindle Vella and a nonfiction dog training book that’s out there as both an ebook…
