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DAY 10 National Novel Writing Month
Christian writers write too! I am discovering many faith based writers who self publish, many of them give their booklets away. My Son, Carl William Morris III (1980-2008) was an untitled evangelist he wrote and sold a booklet:JUST LOOKING FOR THE WAY by Carl (CHAMP) Morris. The booklet sold for $10 but he gave many away. I am currently reading…
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DAY 8 National Novel Writers Month
Writers write because it’s our job. For many writers our pay is personal satisfaction in completing a blog post validated by someone liking, sharing and or commenting. Truth be told most self published author would be lucky to make $1,000 annually. When I first started writing, around 2010, my research revealed that the average self published writer earned around $5,000…
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DAY 7: NaNoWriMo
Obviously I did not write yesterday (Day 6 of my NaNoWriMo challenge), I thought about writing but it was Sunday and I do have my Sunday activities. The reality is writers may not write every day but they still write.Waking up I know it was good that I did not write because my head is busting with ideas, some of…
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SO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER?
It has been almost 9 years since I published THE TRUTH ABOUT VASHTAI and I have learned quite a bit about writing, publishing and making money. The one lesson I have learned: I have to keep my day job! People often come to me for advice about writing. I used to tell them to just write and when you are…
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NaNoWriMo Day #21
It’s the believability clause! Not that I have to be 100% accurate when I insert historical information into my novel however, when writing about events that occurred in the past it is important that your plot agrees with history as closely as possible. For example: there were no automobiles in 1776. I wanted the character Moses to come from the…
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NaNoWriMo Day #19
It is to early for a word count, therefore I will not be sharing one today. However, it is safe to assume that it will probably be less than 500. I am trying to decide if I have outgrown NaNoWriMo or if my projects are bigger than thirty days. It is the difference between sprinting and marathons, they are both…
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