Comments on: 3 Simple Ways to Improve Your Writing & Increase Sales

By: Sharon Lippincott

Sharon Lippincott — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:45:38 +0000

Amen to the Strunk & White paragraph about vigorous writing. It hooked my attention after a fast scroll down. You managed to snag 2:52 from me instead of my usual website average of 0:43! Great work.

By: Deborah Makarios

Deborah Makarios — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:02:52 +0000

I write good books. According to me, anyway. Readers have called them wonderful, brilliant, fantastic, captivating, riveting… But despite their enthusiasm, readers of my books remain a small group. Maybe I need to level up from “wonderful, uplifting, optimistic, and slightly bananas” (according to one reviewer) to “so amazing I vowed my eyelids should know no rest until I had told everyone I know about it” (according to no reviewer – yet).

By: Roger Nay

Roger Nay — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:27:31 +0000

In reply to Kristen Lamb. I’ve watched several videos on your web site. You’re a great comedic actress.

By: Kristen Lamb

Kristen Lamb — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 21:02:30 +0000

In reply to Roger L Nay. LOL. Actually my website does remarkably well as far as how long people stay on here. Then again, this isn't just a website, it is a teaching blog. BUT, we still only get a split second to earn the minutes.

By: Roger L Nay

Roger L Nay — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:50:43 +0000

Great 54 second read.

By: amcmulin914

amcmulin914 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 18:00:26 +0000

Well that was too easy, now I just need to write the thing.

By: claire o'sullivan

claire o'sullivan — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:59:44 +0000

ah yes. so enticing at times to write the full-on backstory into the first 40 pages (no, not any longer). I note a lot of writers do this (because they don’t have an editor). I’ve learned over the years, put it in ‘your research and dribble that in, ‘if’ needed.’ I had a ‘brief’ intro to the main character and it was like 1/2 a page. I looked again. Bleh. So I started with a line that I hope is catchy after I slashed the majority of the page. Yeesh.

By: Kristen Lamb

Kristen Lamb — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:47:35 +0000

In reply to amcmulin914. NICE! I'm sold.

By: amcmulin914

amcmulin914 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:43:16 +0000

Wonderful article! I will take your pitch challenge. So this is for my current work in progress, tentatively title “Zebra Zorp”. Have you ever experienced a synchronicity? Maybe you are thinking of an old friend, and then they just happen to call? Or maybe a heavy dose of deja vu? Like traveling somewhere new, and yet feeling like you have lived this moment in time before?

These themes and many more will be explored in my new novel “Zebra Zorp”. This Philip K. Dick inspired novel will address the issues of the Simulation Theory in ways you have never considered. In it, we find a seemingly Edenic world outside the Simulation, and follow the lives of several technicians called “Wakers”, who are the one’s that pull you like a new-born baby out of the simulation pod. The mission of the simulation, to avert an impending catastrophe, has been accomplished. And yet, the existential crisis of the simulation itself seems to be seeping back into the real world…