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So. You're a writer.
You're no longer a beginning writer, however. You've mastered some of the elements of your craft, have learned the basics of storytelling, are starting to see some success.
What do you need to take you to the next level, though? This book is aimed at the intermediate. Not the beginner. Not the advanced. But the writer who is actively working on their craft and yearns to improve.
This book is as much of a guide as anything else....
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So, you commit art.
However, you feel...stuck. Unsatisfied. You want to do more as an artist. Can do more.
You just don't know how.
You've seen all the advice books out there, all meant to help you. Most of them come from people who are not artists, haven't struggled with the fear. This book may help you, but you have to want to change and then be willing to do the hard work. Inside, find straightforward advice on things you need to think about to...
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We have many, many different ways to tell a story. Possibly as many different types of story structure as there are stories and storytellers. You will not find a book on abstract theory with an emphasis on definitions and static edifices here. Nor a scholarly work going into unimportant minutia. Instead, let's look at some of the more popular types of story structure, with hints and ideas for how you can use immediately them in your own writing. Places...
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This book isn't going to give you all the answers about publishing. Everything is changing too fast for that.
Instead, this book will help you figure out the questions you need to be asking, right now and tomorrow and direct you to areas you need to think about.
This book covers some of the universal things in publishing, such as: organizing your computer, your publishing schedule, contracts, etc. It also highlights the things that are driven by...
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So. You're a writer. And, like most people, writer or not, you'd like to become healthier. Whatever that means. There's a lot of advice out there. However, most of it comes from people who have always been healthy, or who aren't writers. Plus, they don't encourage you to define health for yourself.
This book is my personal journey to health, along with a lot of tips and tricks for how you, as a writer, can start "leveling up" your writing to be healthier...
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“The Business for Breakfast” series contains bite-sized business advice. Short and sweet and easy to digest as well as apply. Omnibus one contains books focused on the business side of indie publishing. It includes advice on creating business plans, learning covers, how to launch a magazine as well as beginning marketing.
Take your publishing business to the next level!
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“The Business for Breakfast” series contains bite-sized business advice, short and sweet and easy to digest as well as apply. Omnibus two contains books focused on craft. It includes advice on the seven-point plot structure, using the three act structure from drama in your fiction, as well as learning how to write faster and cleaner. Take your writing to the next level!
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Readers really do judge books by its cover. It's frequently the first thing that a reader encounters. Maybe the last, if it's not compelling.
A beautiful cover isn't enough. If the cover doesn't suit your story, if it doesn't instantly convey the correct genre and tone, doesn't re-enforce your author brand, it will do you more harm than good.
This book isn't to teach you how to create your own covers. Instead, it's to help you learn about covers,...
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Until now, as a writer, all you've focused on is the Craft of writing. However, your writing is not the same thing as your business. This book gives you a combination of career and writer/life advice to help you take that next step, and go from being merely a writer to being a professional, from someone who has had to learn all this the hard way.
Some of the topics discussed include:
DBAs
Intellectual property
Money
Communication
Self-confidence...
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Do you ever look at other writers who are further along the path and wonder how they got there? What they had to do to dig themselves out of the myths, get themselves unstuck, and moving forward?
Writers aren't born with all that knowledge of craft and writing process. They figure it out and learn it the hard way.
Fortunately, you don't have to start from scratch, though the journey is long and neverending.
This book will give you clues: signposts...
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