The Golden Pencil: The Freelance Writer’s Resource

June 22nd, 2008

Of Amazon, BookSurge, Publishing and Self-publishing

Tracy Cooper-Posey, a fiction writer who blogs at Anchored Authors (anchored, as in anchored to a day job), has an excellent post called: Publishing terms, POD and the Amazon “Thing”
She gives short, pithy and accurate definitions of the various publishing stratgies at least theoretically available to book writers. I say “theoretically” because it’s so darn […]

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August 30th, 2006

Crashes, Finding Lost Files, Problems Logging In – It All Counts

One of my projects involves getting updates from an OfficeLive site. The goal is a worthy one. As the team members update documents I need for the project, I’m, at least in theory, able to access them without going through the drama of mailing multiple attachments. I love the idea – it’s the implementation that […]

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July 22nd, 2006

Plotting - 31 Days to Better Freelance Writing - Day 22

Shai Coggins has a nifty blog called eWriteLife – and she should. Her bio reveals just how proficient she is online. She’s got a category on writing fiction, and there offers this tip for plotting:

Start with a Character

Shai offers some great examples and then tells you briefly what to do with your character.
Write well […]

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