My yesterday: The Irish are upset because the Aussie doesn’t care they exist or have a country. The English Northerners are perturbed by the absence of twat and think the guy sounds too posh. I added nonce, which made them laugh, and apparently they do go around calling each other that. The Irish are upset.
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Hours and Hours
In any number of careers you would need to take training courses or maintain qualifications. As writers, have you done anything more formal, after university, to hone your talent or is there something you plan/want to do in the future? Anything you found really helpful? Aside from just putting in the hours and hours actually
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Poorly Explain What You Do For a Living
Dedicated to Steph and benthic communities in the Arctic Your turn!
Questions on Writing, Part 1
What’s it like to write funny stuff? As someone trying to learn to write, I’m confused about how you do it. The way you guys are funny seems to me like a ‘foibles and contradictions of human interaction, well narrated’ type of strategy, but how do you come up with that stuff? Is it part
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Burning money in the digital age
Do you have any marketing and marketing routine advices? Em This comes at a really good time, as I am trying to figure out the benefits of social media vs the drawbacks. To quickly recap, marketing is “paid” promotion while publicity is “earned” promotion. More on that in this blog post. As an author, there
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Novella finished
So we finished the “novella” project. It was supposed to be a 20K story. It is now 40K. I am not sure what reaction this will produce on the editorial end. Once we have more details, a cover, and a preorder link, I will let you know more. We are pivoting back trying to take
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Lake Research
One of my friends is trying to do some writing research, so I am asking on her behalf. She is looking for a lake in US, preferably somewhere warm, so it can be a summer home. The lake must be swimmable and have clear to semi-clear water for story reasons, so it can’t be completely
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S-Corp and Other Corps
I’m thinking of incorporating. What kind of corporation are you? I am going to give you a super valuable and totally awesome advice: talk to an accountant. I am not qualified to advise you on the type of corporation that’s best for you. Here is some background information for information purposes only. No matter what
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Advances: How they Work
Advances “So if a writer gets an advance and the book does not sell well do they have to repay part of the advance? Or does it affect future contracts – no contract / no advance etc.? Or it varies per the contract in place?” Short answer is no, advance doesn’t need to be paid
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Routine, Roles, and Friendship
How important is having a routine in writing? You seem very distraught whenever your routine is interrupted and I don’t know if it’s just because the deadlines or because it throws you off. Do you think you will ever retire from writing (not just publishing) or is it something your brain will always want to
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I Have the Power!
How much do you get to control when you’re self-publishing? And how much do you stick to in terms of “industry standards” because they are good/established marketing even if you don’t agree with? Book length, fonts, cover type,”purity” of tropes, PG rating etc? Do you always listen to your agent or pub team if they
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Pseudonyms
Do you have a list of book ideas somewhere that are very out of your usual genres or don’t have time for? Have you ever thought about starting over under a pseudonym? Yes, but probably not for the most obvious reason. 🙂 Let’s cover the more traditional uses for a pseudonym. From a publisher’s point
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