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Writer Shop Talk: The Catharsis of Personal Essay Writing
When you spend years writing about products, trends, culture, and things, it’s easy to lose touch with the human connection that ties it all together. But that’s what really makes it all interesting,...
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Writer Shop Talk: Post-Launch Depression
It takes a tremendous amount of willpower, energy, and focus to create something. To take an idea and see it through to fruition, whether it’s a book, a game, or something else. It’s very easy to pour...
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Writer Shop Talk: A Few Thoughts On Not Giving Up
I can think of a staggering number of moments throughout my decade-long journey as a professional writer where I could have just given up: on key projects, on my quest for certain dream gigs, on...
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Writer Shop Talk: Writing Targeted Books
I’m in the middle of a tight deadline week, so I’ll keep this short-ish [edit: HAHAHA YEAH RIGHT], but I wanted to take a quick moment to reflect on something I’ve mentioned in the past that was really...
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Writer Shop Talk: 5 Alternative Ways to Write a Book
Words and ideas don’t come easily to everyone. Each of us has our own mental blocks and quirks that can inhibit our creative flow from time to time. As I delve into in great detail with the first book...
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Writer Shop Talk: Letting Your Book Drafts Percolate
A while ago, I decided that my creative and professional plans for 2015 would include launching a STUPID amount of quality books this year. Things are off to a great start, with Write Short Kindle...
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Building Launch Momentum for your Kindle Books (Without a HUGE Author...
If you’ve got a massive author platform to tap into, it’s not hard to rocket your books up Amazon’s charts and move some serious units right from the get-go. But what if you’ve got less to work with?...
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Writer Shop Talk: Are You an Indie Author?
It occurred to me when I set out on this new branch of my self-publishing adventure that my choice of using the phrase “Indie Author” in the title of my latest book — and an entire self-publishing...
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Kindle Book Launch Success — Two Months Out and 2,600+ Sales
It’s been about two months and a week since I launched Write Short Kindle Books, which became a Kindle bestseller and has easily been my most successful book yet. I previously posted an extensive...
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Self-publishing experiment: Changing your book title MID-LAUNCH! Crazy or...
One of the things I REALLY love about self-publishing is that it gives you the speed, flexibility, and freedom to try bold experiments and turn on a dime to respond to how your book is performing. I’m...
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