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Considering My Cover Design
Lately, I’ve been having second thoughts about my book’s cover design. I love it. Completely. One-hundred percent. But, as I’ve been considering how to market my book, I’ve been wondering if the approach I chose might hurt the book. The cover as it is now, is a photographic cover featuring the main character’s love interest…
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Beta-Reader Update #2
My trusted beta-reader has some new updates for me regarding her read-through of Not Famous. She is now a third of the way through. The overall response was very positive, but the primary issue was the following: You never gave any physical descriptions of anyone. I don’t know what the characters look like! I was…
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On Writing (Strong) Female Characters
Men know jack about women. Women don’t really get me either. But, men and women authors have to write characters of the opposite sex. They do it all the time. Some even write novels/stories with women narrators. Hey, if they can pull it off all the power to them. Nick Hornby did so quite effectively in…
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Early Beta-Reader Comments
I’ve mentioned before that the first draft of my novel is currently being beta-read by my first beta-reader. It’s nerve-racking, having someone reading it for the first time in seven years, but, this is an important part of the process, and I’ve asked my beta-reader to be completely honest in assessing the story to help…
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First Drafts, Beta Readers, and Novel Number Two
Well, it’s been over a week since I finished the first draft of my first novel. Let’s give you an update on what has happened since then. First, I celebrated. I didn’t go overboard: I just had a double of my favorite scotch and relished in the fact that after seven years I’d finally completed…
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Seven Years Later… My First Draft is Finished.
Earlier this year I resolved to finish my oft-neglected novel, Not Famous. Today, after seven long years,I finally finished the first draft. In mid-March I estimated that I’d finish by the end of April… and I was right on target, finishing the first draft on the very last day of the month. For those who are wondering,…
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Writing. Productively… For a Change
Yes. Believe it or not… after five… no wait, six years of working on and off (mostly off) on this novel, I’ve finally been making solid progress, dedicating a couple hours most days to reading through it, start to finish, and revising and filling in parts left for another day. Yes, I am going through…
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Productive Writing
Hey, it’s actually been a productive few weeks of writing! For the past few years I’ve been struggling to find both inspiration and time to finish a novel I actually started five years ago. The first two years probably produced the bulk of the book, but, life got in the way (as it tends to do)…
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Work-In-Progress Update
The novel I started back in July 2011… it is still unfinished. It’s contemporary fiction, probably best fitting in the lad lit genre, and is clocking in at over 90,000 words, but it still has quite a ways to go. Lot’s of holes to fill in. God only knows how much editing it will need. Four…
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Work-In-Progress Update
The novel I started back in July 2011… it is still unfinished. It’s contemporary fiction, probably best fitting in the lad lit genre, and is clocking in at over 90,000 words, but it still has quite a ways to go. Lot’s of holes to fill in. God only knows how much editing it will need. Four…
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