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Make Sure You Hit All the Keys and No One Gets Hurt
I am not a typist. In my freshman year of high school, I took a typing class as an elective because it sounded easy, but the instructor ended up asking me to leave before the school year ended. I think...
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Reset Sunday – Just Stop it…it’s Okay
When I was a kid my dad had no idea what the concept of a “Sunday” meant. He would get up early, mow the lawn, weed eat the yard, trim the trees, clean the garage, work on the car, work on my brother’s...
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I Don’t Procrastinate and I’ll Tell You Why…Later….
Procrastination. You know, I’ve been actually putting a column about this off and I have no idea why. It’s an important topic. It’s something that writers everywhere deal with, yet, just the sound of...
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What’s the Meaning of Life and All that Crap
I am a student of life. I ask so many questions at any given time that I have family members who hate to see me coming during family BBQs. One of my middle sons tells me that I do it because I was a...
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Beware the Nay-Sayers!
As a writer I don’t enjoy a lot of support for what I do. I mean, my family is supportive, other writers are supportive, but people in general have one of two reactions; they either are in awe of the...
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Look Universe….I’m Paying Attention!
Life is messy. This has never been so evident for me as it is right now. We have had a hectic year with grown children coming and going, grandkids introduced to the household then ripped away, gas...
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Don’t Count Your Words Constantly, Instead Make Your Words Count
We are word counters, us writers. At some point our work lives or dies by the number of words we have invested into a story. Publishers and editors have their reasons for needing to hit that special...
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Reset Sunday – A Caffeine Free Day
Writers are the victims of a stereotype. Okay, we are the victims of A LOT of stereotypes, but here we are dealing with just one…caffeine freaks. We are always portrayed as caffeinated crazy people...
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But I Don’t Want to Clean it Up…WAIT…That’s Where That Was….
Part of me hates holidays; especially those that happen making the Monday a holiday. When I was in school three day weekends were cool, but now, they are sort of annoying. Now, they are that extra day...
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Vote Today…The Writing You Save Just Might Be Yours….
In California voters are voting on a new tax law that could affect Kindle writers. In France they are revisiting the issue of copyrights and just how many rights an author has. Then there is that...
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What American Writers Can Learn from Writers Abroad
I have been doing a lot of world exploring lately and I have been doing it from my desk. I ran across an app for the Samsung Galaxy called Flipbook and decided to give it a whirl. As it turns out,...
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Have Book – Will Make Mistakes…What to Avoid
We writers are not perfect. What?! Not Perfect…please…you may be saying, but it’s true…perfection is not a trait we carry as writers. We make some whoppers sometimes and as beginning writers we makes...
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Beginning Writers 101 – 6 Things to be Aware of When Starting Out
Writing is hard. I know that many of you out there deal with others making less of what you do but let’s be honest…they are wrong…writing is hard. While I would love to tell all of you aspiring...
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How do You Know You Are a Writer……
When did you know that you were a writer? This is a question I get within the first few minutes of every book reading I have ever done. It is an interesting question albeit sort of annoying after the...
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My Chance to be The Leading Man
There are some perks to being a writer. For instance, I can kill off people I don’t like or who slight me. I can live anywhere in the world and the plane ticket doesn’t cost me a cent. I can be an...
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Don’t Be Too Good to Ghost Write
Over the years I have met a lot of writers who refuse to be a ghost writer. Now this is a subject near and dear to my heart because I do quite a lot of ghosting and I love it. I make good money doing...
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Feeling like a Failure for 2013? Don’t…..
So here we are at the end of a long and crazy year. 2013 has been fraught with crazy economics, faster than the speed of light publishing changes and an ever changing landscape of what is a book…it’s...
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The Friday Writing Pebbles
Like throwing a pebble into the water some writers put advice out into the ocean of hopeful newbies hoping the ripple effects will reach them and they will learn a thing or two. That’s one of the...
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Sometimes it Sucks
I love being a writer. I love the concept of story. I love typing. I love seeing my name on a book cover. I love seeing readers read my work with a smile on their faces. You know what I don’t love...
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Check Out the New Book
In Your Write Mind – A Writer’s Thoughts on the Writer’s World is a 74,653 word layman’s manual on how to be a writer. We have thousands of books out there now that “preach” at writers but there are...
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