As you have seen by the results of the past few days I have been having a reduction in my writing output. Today was a refreshing change in many ways. I was able to have a relaxing writing day. I got up after sleeping in an extra hour and spent an hour working on my writing. My son and I had some errands to run which temporarily stalled the writing, but that was fine. I worked on my stuff a bit more after I got home and spent another hour in the early evening doing more writing. Then I had the privilege of attending the Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing 10th Anniversary Steel and Steam party. I got to […]
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Writing Should Be Treated as a Business
Before I go too far into this post, I want to explain something about the title. The post is intended for those people who want to make a living as a writer. For those of you who write for the pure enjoyment of it, you can ignore most of what I’m about to say. For the rest of you… well, read on. The first thing we writers need to realize is that publishers, editors and agents are people just like us. They love, they have lives and, most importantly, they need the same essentials we do in order to survive. That usually means a requirement for money of some type. If they are professional publishers/editors/agents they must earn money through […]
Read moreGet Published Episode 44 – Awesomeness with Kimi Alexandre
I had the pleasure to talk with Kimi Alexandre for this episode. For those of you who don’t know who Kimi is, she is a podcaster, writer and professional voice actress. And she is the founder of SpecFicDB.com If you have listened to any of the better known podcast fiction out there, chances are good that you have heard her voice. She talks about SpecFicDb, Tale Chasing (her podcast for Urban Fantasy writers), Guardians (another of her podcasts) and Voice Acting. It was a great discussion and I hope to have her on the show again. In the feedback section of the show, I talk about my NaNoWriMo progress to date. NaNo has been another great experience thus far, but […]
Read moreThe Waiting Game
For those of you who are new to writing or even to submitting your work, I’ve got a revelation that you may or may not want to hear: the publishing industry is slow. Now before you cry out “Leave the poor publishers alone!” I want you to know I don’t say that as a criticism. I am simply stating a fact. Publishers, editors, agents, and yes, even writers are all human. They have a finite amount of time to try and wrestle a (seemingly) infinite amount of work into. Take a publisher for example. The publisher has to find work good enough to put into print, then put said work under contract (which will involve some level of negotiations), match […]
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