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By: How to Make ALL Ads, Marketing & Newsletters Work BETTER - Writers In The Storm

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:01:39 +0000

[…] question. How do we get readers to find, love and buy books? Over on my blog I posted one answer The Single Best Way to Become a Mega-Author, which is—in a nutshell: write a LOT of (good) […]

By: bakdor

bakdor — Fri, 19 May 2017 01:32:54 +0000

I like your thought process. Very encouraging. Thanks for the shot in the arm.
Doré Bak

By: Tammy Patton

Tammy Patton — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 04:29:10 +0000

I’m at a great place in life. Kids are grown, big house was exchanged for a low maintenance condo, and I work part-time. Lots of time to write. It’s what I love. I spend hours a day writing. And still, I’m slow. Whole scenes come to me, in full detail, when I’m trying to fall asleep. When I’m sitting in front of my computer, it’s a whole lot of staring out the window, thinking. On the positive side, the guy across the street was shadow boxing in his kitchen today. At least I’m not without entertainment!

Enjoyed the post as always.

By: How to Make ALL Ads, Marketing & Newsletters Work BETTER – Kristen Lamb

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 17:51:00 +0000

[…] right, so Monday we talked about The Single Best Way to Become a Mega-Author, which is—in a nutshell—write a LOT of (good) books. They key is being prolific and […]

By: Stephanie Scott

Stephanie Scott — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 14:44:55 +0000

Way to go Kristen! While romance has a “formula” of sorts, I think the mistake some writers make is assuming it’s easy to fill in the dots. Being in Romance Writers and exposed to romance fiction helped me immensely as a new writer to understand story structure. The relationship literally drives the conflict and feeds into the plot. The more I read, the more I write, the better I understand this. But it’s not exactly paint by numbers either.

I recently wrote 18k words over a 3 day weekend. That 18k was the end section of a romance novel, and since I had that structure set up, the last 10 chapters went fast. (I also disabled Internet on my laptop = biggest productivity boost EVER).

One last thing, I was just reading on a closed forum how a writer I knew from a different genre is writing under a pen name for a totally different genre/subgenre. She said the same thing as you; now that she knows story structure (and she had several traditional series under her belt before she went indie), she found a niche of readers who love her stuff, and she is writing stories for THEM. She said the challenge is to keep up with their insatiable appetite, to keep the stories and plot fresh, but she is now making an actual living salary. She has a system, a process, and she sits down and does the work. I was so inspired!

By: Amy Laurens

Amy Laurens — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 01:46:55 +0000

You have no idea how much I needed to hear this this week. Thank you so much. With precious little time and emotional/creative energy leftover from my dayjob, and with more than a little propensity for procrastinatory organising, AND with that Type A+ need to know how to do something RIGHT *before* doing it, sometimes (okay too often) I end up wasting what little time I have and become overwhelmed by everything I’m *supposed* to be doing. So this reminder was perfect. Fundamentally, what I need to do is Write A Damn Good Book.

Thanks <3

By: Rennie St James

Rennie St James — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:00:23 +0000

I have just started following your posts but have already put into place several of your suggestions! It’s easy to get distracted by how much advice is available to writers. Your blogs are direct and helpful.

Thank you!

By: Nickie Asher

Nickie Asher — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:55:03 +0000

Great post. I’ve spent eleven months training to change jobs and my writing has sat with an epic novel half-ass edited…in limbo. I used to have good writing habits but they seem to have died along with work on all of my projects. But I know you are right. I see what others are doing (even if they are cheating and using ghost writers – okay, I consider it cheating while others may not). Clearly, to make money, you need a lot of material on the market.

I think I will begin showing up for sprints next week. I’ve had just about enough of letting my writing suffer to take care of everyone elses stuff.

By: Choose Your Pain—Hobbyist vs. Professional Author – Kristen Lamb

Choose Your Pain—Hobbyist vs. Professional Author – Kristen Lamb — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:49:34 +0000

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By: stellafreeman

stellafreeman — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 09:09:00 +0000

Love it! Thank you fro your input 🙂 Finish and Practice, has to be the best advice I ever got…