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Fractured Identities
I was around lots of writerly types this weekend so there was lots of thinking and discussing going on. And one of the ideas that came up as sort of tangential to one of those conversations was this thought that … Continue reading
Posted in General Musings, Writing
Tagged being a writer, how online interactions change our experience, identity in different settings, writing
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How Times Change
I’m going to a conference this weekend and I’m thinking I won’t take my computer with me. The mere thought makes my fingers twitch even though I’ll still have my iPhone with me and probably be able to access the … Continue reading
I Should’ve Read That Book A Year Ago (Not That It Would’ve Mattered)
I’ve had a copy of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman on my to-be-read pile for a while now. Long enough that it’s already out in paperback and I have the hard cover. Well, I finally started reading it … Continue reading
Do You Still Read Blogs?
This was asked on one of the forums I read today and I thought, yes, of course. And then I started to think about it some more. I DO read blogs every morning, but they all tend to have a … Continue reading
Posted in General, Resources, Writing
Tagged being a writer, blogs I regularly read, what makes a blog worth reading regularly, writing
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The Last 35,000 Is The Hardest
According to my tracking spreadsheet, I have 33,327 words left to hit the one-million-word mark and that doesn’t include the 2,200 I’ve written already today. But, man, is it hard to get those last 35,000 words or so down. I … Continue reading
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Tagged being a writer, close but not yet there, practice only makes perfect if you're doing it right, the million word mark, this is my convenient way of procrastinating and pretending I'm doing something useful, writing
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Let’s Talk Amazon Reports and Excel Pivot Tables
I just saw an author that makes $40,000+ a month and is exclusive to Amazon talk about how hard it is for them to differentiate sales between their two pen names. And I thought, really? Then I remembered that there … Continue reading
Posted in General, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged being a writer, calculating amazon sales by author name, calculating amazon sales by title, it's easier than it looks, pivot tables, using Excel to analyze Amazon sales reports, writing
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A Few Thoughts on the Latest Change to KU
So for those of you who missed the announcement yesterday, Amazon is changing up their Kindle Unlimited program, the program that lets readers pay $10 a month and borrow as many of the enrolled books as they want. For the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, being a writer, kindle unlimited, what length to write, writing, writing an engaging story matters more than the length of the story
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You Can’t Assume Rationality
One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn is that not everyone sees the world the way I do. Things that seem perfectly obvious to me aren’t to other people. Does that make me right? Or better? No, not … Continue reading
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Tagged authors behaving badly, being a writer, not everyone sees the world the same way you do, responding to reviews, writing
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Go Wide Or Leverage Amazon’s Select Program?
One of the biggest challenges most self-publishers face is deciding where to distribute their books (and what to price them at). Do you go wide, put the book everywhere, and see how it does? Or focus on the big gorilla … Continue reading
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Tagged being a writer, different genres perform differently, go wide or focus on Amazon, Kindle Select, KU, self-publishing, writing
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