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Ten Year Plan to Becoming a Full-Time Writer and Independent Filmmaker
Ten Year Plan to Becoming a Full-Time Writer and Independent Filmmaker About twelve years ago in 2013, I started writing my first book. About a year or two into that, and I found myself addicted. I had a promising career path ahead of me in the home construction world, but I’d just found a passion…
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What Are Story Beats?
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
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 more…
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Plotting Your Story
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
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
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
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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What To Do After You’ve Written Your 1st Book
Way to go, you wrote your first book, published it, maybe. What next? There’s a couple of things. Marketing is one option, but it’s not the most important option. What about sales? How do we get money for our book if we’re not marketing it? Well, sales are nice, but they aren’t the main goal…
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How To Publish Your 1st Novel (Part 2)
So you’ve received only form letters, telling you that either the agent is not accepting new clients, or that the publisher is not interested in your novel at this time. What a bummer. Maybe you’ve simply gotten overwhelmed with the amount of work involved in sending out all those inquiries to the publishing gatekeepers, and…
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How To Publish Your 1st Novel (Part 1)
It’s time to publish your book. This is the moment you’ve been waiting for, all your life. Well, maybe not all your life, but surely over the last several months you’ve been looking forward to this day. Only problem is, you don’t know how to publish it. Do you go the traditional route, of searching…
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