Jul 11, 2018

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About Writing

Index

I Deleted My Personal Publication

For a better alternative

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Writer Newsletters Are Changing. Promotion Is Out. Content Is In.

The traditional writer newsletter never worked for me. So I am trying something different.

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How I Accidentally Became A Writer

And published my first novel at age 60

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The Phone Call That Restored My Hope As A Writer

Over the past three years writing on Medium, I have been blessed to consistently have a small number of Medium readers…

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Why I Am Excited About Kindle Vella

My plan as an “early adopter” writer

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Haunted By The Ghost Of Amazon Past

A hard self-publishing lesson learned

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Riding The Medium Rollercoaster For Three Years

What an exciting, maddening, joyous, disappointing, connecting, frustrating, heart-warming, obsessive, instructive…

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Writing Makes No Sense, So I Will Rap

Someone please explain writing to me

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Writing Three Line Conversations

A tutorial no one asked for

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I Am Officially Declaring Writing A Hobby

And it’s a good thing

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How The Pandemic Affected My Creativity

A response to Lindsay’s question

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“I Write For Myself”

Hmm…

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How To Make $50,000 Per Year Writing Fiction

A simple, effective method

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Should You Avoid Adverbs?

Quick Writing Tips

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It’s Probably My Third Grade Teacher’s Fault

Surviving Imagination Bootcamp

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How Dare I Call Myself A Writer

Without following the rules

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I Serialized My Novel On Medium Before Publishing It

The results of my experiment

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Writing Baron Britpop Blastfurnace

Epilogue: How and why I wrote this novel

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Using Pencils

Quick Writing Tip

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Setting Priorities

Quick Writing Tip

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A Shift In Perspective On Writing

From obsession to enjoyment

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The Place Where The Words Appear

I Challenge You prompt: Where I Write

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Two Years And Counting

Thoughts on my Medium adventure

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Preserving My Writing In Print

Self-publishing my Medium stories

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Adventures In Micro-fiction

Overcoming my negative first impressions and enjoying a new challenge

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10 Reasons Why You Should Never Write A Listicle

A Listicle

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One Writing Rule To Rule Them All

Quick Writing Tip

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Why Do I Write On Medium?

Answering Juhi’s question

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Famous Writer Writing Advice Proven Untrustworthy

The sad truth revealed.

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Instant Worldbuilding

Quick Writing Tips

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What You Should Do When People Don’t Clap For Your Story

Quick Writing Tips

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Haven’t Lost Your Passion For Writing Yet?

Some things to try.

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I Am Phineas Phiddlephaddle

My experience writing under an alias.

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The Value Of Our Stories

Who should decide?

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My Elements Of Style

Are a little different than Strunk’s.

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I Write For The Applause

And that’s OK.

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Writing Accents, Slang, Cultural Dialects, and Period Languages

How do you approach it?

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Long Live The Storytellers

Before the rise in literacy and the invention of the printing press, people told stories. To family, to friends, around…

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Editing After Publishing

Do you?

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Writing Rules and Formulas

Are both good and bad.

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Unfocused Writing On Purpose

I choose variety.

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I Hate Quotes

Yes, you can quote me on that.

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My Two Favorite Kinds Of Magic

Fiction & Songwriting

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Will Writers Suffer The Same Fate As Musicians?

There was a time when musicians toured to sell albums (vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD.) Album sales were their main…

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Why? Why? Why?

Why do my best story ideas come the second I put the shampoo on my hair in the shower?

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Different Writing Voices

I frequently see articles about “finding your voice as a writer.” Essentially, the advice is: Be unique. Be yourself.

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Got Any Extra Sandwiches?

Or “I Think I’ll Write A Novel”

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Old Man Grumpy Speaks Out

Listen Up Whippersnappers!

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