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TThinkerX replied to the thread prowritingaid.Aging eyes and old injuries to my hands are coming back to haunt me, resulting in a lot of typos. Grammarly is way better at spotting...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread How many books have you read?.I trained myself to read very fast. Back in Junior high, I had two classes that were in the same room with a ten-minute break between...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread Hello everyone.Welcome! I did a lot of worldbuilding back in the day, mostly for AD&D. I built half a dozen worlds with varying degrees of detail...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread What things to tackle first when I finish the rough draft?.When you finish the rough draft, set it aside for a few weeks or months and work on something else. AFTER that time, read through it. It...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread prowritingaid.Initially, I used MS Word for basic editing - typos, commas, that sort of thing. It missed about 60% of those issues. So, I deleted my...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread Too Many files!.Rough Draft: A (Title) 'zero' file for the outline and character list. A (Title) 'work' file for the bits and pieces I had to cut but...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread An echo of a silent hello.Hello! You write, and you learn. Your first draft will almost certainly seem horrible...as you are writing it. Don't stop. Push on...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread Advise on handling name changes.Glen Cook put it best: 'Gods have more names than a two-hundred-year-old con artist.' In real-world mythology, the names and functions...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread Using short stories to market a longer work.One of my pet projects at Mythic Scribes is reading and reviewing a book or three by our published authors. I might as well add yours to...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread Using short stories to market a longer work.Of the four books I published last year, one was a linked-together 'spicy' anthology ('Empire: Southern Heat'), and two others were...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread marketing for self published book.Both. I released 'Labyrinth Journal' a week ago, and am continuing to line up promo sites. One of these promo sites gets its first shot...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread marketing for self published book.That gets into the other part. 1 - Reviews matter. Getting reviews - especially for an indie author - is a pain. I tried all sorts of...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread marketing for self published book.I regard Amazon and FB ads as overpriced. Before the scammers took over, I had modest marketing success with ordinary posts to FB book...
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TThinkerX replied to the thread marketing for self published book.Here. This thread details my marketing misadventures. Read the last few pages...