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Ramping Up for NaNoWriMo

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I have decided to do NaNoWriMo again this year after a two-year hiatus. “Why?” Simply put, NaNo has always been a great motivator to me. I like to challenge myself and NaNo allows me to do that. It really gets my competitive juices flowing. I have a lot of writing to get done in the next few months and this will really set me up for success. My best ever NaNo was 50,000 words in 19 days. I don’t know that I will beat that this year, but my goals are higher too. I’m going to try for 70,000 words in 30 days. I think I can do it. How about you? Will you be doing NaNoWriMo this year?

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Bullies

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There is a lot going on in the world today. Countries invading other countries, radical groups killing and terrorizing other people and other countries. Just yesterday a second occurrence in a week hit Canada and people were hurt and killed. These are all examples of bullying on an International scale. They are enough to make me say, “Stop the world, I want to get off.” But that won’t fix the problem. While I was following several of the newsworthy events yesterday, I came across an article by Felica Day. For those of you who don’t know who Ms. Day is, she is an actress, a creative talent and a geek like me. She has taken a love of all things […]

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Get Published Episode 139 – Susan M Toy Talks About Promotion

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As you likely know, Mik Murdoch: The Power Within was released in August of this year. What you may not know is I was referred to someone who posts notices about new books. That person was and is Susan Toy. Susan has done a lot of different things in the book industry and she is trying to give back to writers by helping them to get some notice when they have new work coming out. I thought it would be interesting and appropriate to have Susan on the show to talk about the importance of promotion and to get her take on what writers can do to help themselves traverse of the muddy waters of the Internet. And before we […]

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Don’t Be A Failure!

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I titled this post, “Don’t Be A Failure!” for a reason. To me, failure means giving up. If you continue to fight the good fight, regardless of the odds, even if you lose, you are still winning. You have stood behind your convictions and pushed back at your detractors. I have heard it said that it takes seven positive things to be said to a person to boost their ego/confidence/whatever and only one negative thing to pull it all down. I believe that to be true and more so for creative types (yes, I include myself in that group). It drives my wife crazy when I let some foolish comment or imagined slight pull me down when I have so […]

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