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Blog postMarketing books is hard. There are many dozens of things authors are “supposed” to be doing to increase their sales. The problem is that everything takes time, and authors are busy people. It’s natural for an author to ask what their core marketing machine should look like. If you reduce things to the bare essentials,... Read More
The post A Virtuous Cycle for Marketing Your Books appeared first on Advanced Fiction Writing.
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Blog postIf you read a lot of e-books, you may find yourself wishing you could highlight interesting segments in your e-book reader and transfer them to your computer. You can! At least, you can on the e-book readers I’ve tried. I do most of my reading on the Kindle app on my iPhone, so I’ll show... Read More
The post Exporting Notes From an E-book to Your Computer appeared first on Advanced Fiction Writing.
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Blog postMost writers are perfectionists, and that’s good. It means we like to produce excellent quality writing.
Most writers are perfectionists, and that’s bad. It means we’re never done.
The art of being a writer is to balance that good perfectionism against the bad perfectionism.
There’s a way to do that. It’s a method that has become wildly popular in the world of entrepreneurs.
The idea is to rapidly create something called a “Minimum Viabl -
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Blog postNothing happens unless you take action.
But you don’t want to take random, chaotic actions.
You want to take intentional actions toward some goal.
To do that, you need an Action Plan.
One problem with most projects is that you don’t know all the steps required to complete the plan.
The solution is to make an Action Plan that evolves in time. As you work through the steps in your evolving Action Plan, you’ll continually add new st -
Blog postNearly six years ago, in the January 2015 issue of my Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine, I wrote an article on what I call “the Success Equation.” In that article, I identified four crucial factors that determine whether you succeed or fail as a writer. And what is “success?” I’ll define it right from the get-go... Read More
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Blog postSo you’ve been working on your novel for years, and you can’t get it across the finish line. You’ve tried everything, and there’s just no more gas in your tank. What do you do when you just can’t finish that novel?
Meredith posted this question on my “Ask A Question For My Blog” page:
Hi Randy,
Big fan of yours over here. I love that you answer questions on your blog and thought this might be a good one for you.
I’ve been working on a novel for about 4 ye -
Blog postSo you got carried away writing the synopsis for your novel and now it’s too long. What do you do? Did you waste your effort? How do you use all that material? And how does all this fit into my wildly popular Snowflake Method?
Lindsey posted this question on my “Ask A Question For My Blog” page:
Hi Randy,
I am a first time novel writer and I find your snowflake method very helpful. I completed steps 1 through 3 fairly confidently and was excited to move onto -
Blog postWriting a fight scene is easy to get wrong. It’s also easy to get right. This blog post is adapted from a classic article I wrote in my Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine back in October of 2006. That’s a long time ago, so I thought it was worth updating and posting on my blog.
We’re going to get down into the details in this post. Fight scenes are really easy, if you know the rules. And what are the rules?
Some Fight Scene Rules-of-Thumb Show, don’t tell Make it happen -
Blog postRecently, I was invited to be a guest on the popular podcast The Story Blender, hosted by best-selling novelist Steven James. Steven is also an internationally known speaker on the craft of fiction writing.
Steven and I had a very wide-ranging and animated discussion on the Snowflake Method and fiction writing. If you enjoy listening to podcasts, you can listen to my episode on The Story Blender here.
You may have already read Steven’s book Story Trumps Structure, a well-known -
Blog postHow do you make your readers care about your characters? Is there some foolproof way to do that? If so, what’s the secret?
Jim posted this question on my “Ask A Question For My Blog” page:
What’s the best way to include background info on a character in the first few chapters so readers will care about him or her?
Randy sez: Making your readers care about your character is extremely important. If your readers care, they’ll probably keep reading. If they don’
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