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What Are Story Beats?
August 8, 2025
Often when it comes to plotting your stories, you hear people talking about the beats of the story. For me this was incredibly confusing. I’d google story beats, and get no clear answers. Yet, everyone seemed to know what they were and how to use them. Was I just so stupid that I couldn’t grasp...
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Crafting Your Stories
August 1, 2025
Whether you’re writing a poem, short story, book, church talk, school lesson, song, or screenplay, crafting your story is an art that if you master, will elevate your story to incredible heights. It’ll make your corporate meetings more engaging, you’ll sell more product, you’ll inspire more students, and your children will want to spend...
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Plotting Your Story
July 25, 2025
Coming up with a good plot for your story is one of the most essential things you can do for your book. Of course there’s other things too, like developing a good character, world building, and so on, but without plot, your book or film is dead on arrival. Coming up with a good story...
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The Finances of Self Publishing – Part 2
July 18, 2025
Last time, we talked all about the costs involved in writing and finishing your book. If you missed that article, check it out, it goes into the financial costs of self-publishing your own book. Today though, we have the monumental task of breaking down the biggest problem of all, marketing your book. Because let’s face...
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How To Make Money As A Self-Published Writer – Part 1: Costs
July 4, 2025
If you’ve been following my other posts, you should have a pretty good idea of my process for writing and publishing a book. That’s all good to know, even if you have a process that differs from mine. What you don’t know yet, is how the financial side of all this works out, because let’s...
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How To Turn Your Book Into An Audiobook
June 27, 2025
I used to read, a lot. Eventually, life started to get in the way of my pleasure reading. I’d still read to learn in the evenings, but reading for entertainment sake got harder as the years went on. First there was work, then family, then more family and more work. Did I mention homeownership? Maintaining...
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