A lot of writers are perfectionists. Personally, I think this is funny because the big authors I have run into who are perfectionists seem to not be that great of writers (Great sentence construction there, am I right?). Now, I am against perfectionism, but that is for another podcast episode (or maybe I’ve posted one […]
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https://youtu.be/c3fdFtLWDAo For whatever reason, celebrities think they should be listened to. And it works. People see that someone has a following whether because they are an actor or an influencer on instagram (like me, lol, SAD), but it is generally the case that these people don’t know what the heck they are talking about. On
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Tim Ferris of 4 Hour Work Week fame, talks about an enticing idea in his book (He has a lot of enticing ideas in his book). It isn’t about working only four hours a week. It isn’t about setting up a muse business. It is about the way he approaches goals. He works in 6
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Writers block is a real thing. I think it is a thing that can be avoided, but is is a real thing. What we typically think of writers block is sitting at a blank page and not even knowing how to start writing. Another type of writers block exists though. Have you ever been writing
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If you do some research on working as a writer, you will find one piece of advice that comes up in relation to marketing. That advice is to stick to one genre. This advice makes marketing sense. If you write in the same genre, the people who enjoy your books will enjoy all your books.
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The first thing you should know before anything else is that you should not listen to me. You shouldn’t listen to me. You shouldn’t listen to other writers telling you what to do. What you need to do is figure out your own way of writing. But I don’t think that setting out on your
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The publishing industry has been around for quite some time. Nowadays, the advent of self-publishing pushes against traditional publishing, but indie publishing has only created a tiny dent. We still live in a world that is dominated by the traditional publishing industry. I think there is a good reason for that at this time. But
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Some writers are elitists. Some writers want to write the next great American novel (or English novel or Australian (if they read down there)). And writing for regular people is something that is left for bad writers. I think this is stupid (because I think a lot of things are stupid). Instead of writing for
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Why do we write? That is is common question I ask when thinking about writing. Some people think that writing is only to make words sound good together, but I think this misses the point of the writing completely. My Book:https://amzn.to/31UcCPg My Newsletter:danielpoppie.com/newsletter My Website:www.danielpoppie.com HTWG Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/howtowritegood HTWG Twitter:https://twitter.com/danielpoppie HTWG Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/danielpoppie One Last Toast for
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Some people dismiss fantasy fiction. They see it as something that is not serious. It is not considered high literature. High literature does not deal with things that aren’t real, or high literature carries around specific ideas. But fantasy is a very unique type of story. It allows us to go into a different world,
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