Category: Indie Author
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Try Something New: I Write Songs
When was the last time you tried to do something where you felt completely out of your element? When was the last time you tried something where you felt completely clueless about how to proceed or what to do? I feel that way all the time because I like to create songs, but I don’t…
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My Newest Author’s Interview!
I enjoyed being interviewed about writing and my latest book by Linda-Barnett Johnson. You can read the entire interview HERE! Here’s an excerpt: 8. What inspired you to write your most recent story? After I wrote my first novel, Beauty Rising, I challenged myself to write my second, and in fact, I don’t release a new novel…
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Writing and the Human Condition
There really is nothing new under the sun. I think Solomon was correct. Perhaps, writers know this more than most people. Each time they string together a sentence, they are stepping on the toes of someone who has come before them. Each time they craft a character, they are describing countless other people who at…
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Writing – Like a Workman
Sometimes it’s all inspiration. Sometimes it’s all perspiration. Writing experiences vary from day to day. One day the words flow poetically off the keys like I have discovered the key to writing the world’s next epics. The next day, the words drip like my leaky faucet. But here are a couple of takeaways that I’ve…
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2014: Mapping Out My Year in Writing
Yesterday I looked back on 2013 and the myriad of writing projects I involved myself in. Today, I’ll look ahead a bit and see what’s on the horizon. This is in no particular order. Finish writing novel #4 – currently about 10,000 words in. Publish novel #3, The Reach of the Banyan Tree – Tentative release date…
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2013: Looking Back on My Year in Writing
2013 looks like it might take the title for me as the most prolific writing year I ever had. Here are the highlights: January – May Published the paperback version of Beauty Rising Wrote mini-musical “Captured in Time & Space” and the short play “No in Spite of Itself” Started writing my third novel, The Reach of…
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Year End Reflections on Blogging
I’d like to thank all of you who have stopped by this year. December 2013 had the highest number of visitors ever on my blog. I greatly appreciate it. I started this blog in January 2012. Why? Well, I felt like if I really wanted to put myself out there as a writer then I…
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A Thinking Stop
I was writing early today, and the story flowed well. It wasn’t long until I had rattled off a thousand words without much difficulty at all. It felt good. I was accomplishing something. And then I stopped. Not because I couldn’t have written more; I was completely prepared and able to do so, but I…
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Beauty Rising – only 99 cents for Christmas!
BEAUTY RISING KINDLE DEAL HERE!
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Breaking Through the Noise for Writers and Readers
How can a writer standout in an extremely crowded, competitive market? How can a reader know what is really a good read without reading it? No simple solutions exist for either of these quandaries. As an indie author who’s been promoting for a year now, I attest to the difficulty of knowing what marketing strategies…
Author Mark W Sasse 