Publishing
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Show, don’t tell is not the last word in writing.
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I should have said self first. Because traditionals started as self. Only, they forgot that. I read that about 130 million books have been published to date. Correct me, somebody. 129,864,880 total books according to Google books as taken from https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/85305/how-many-books-have-ever-been-published. That is still far short of the total population of the world at 7.9…
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Alice is advised to begin at the beginning, go on till you come to the end; then stop. The last part , “then stop” is pretty tough. Most of the time a story is unlike a theorem in maths. The conclusion is not thought of at the beginning. Even wonderful authors have trouble ending the…
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Train your breath and your senses to focus
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The problem a novice faces in the publishing industry is that nothing carries as much weight as a well-known name. But you need the publishing industry to gain that name.
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Why do people write? Specifically, why do I write? I will speak for myself. Mainly because I am a newbie and have no standing in the world of authors. There is just one book to my name “The Village of Shadows”. Got that published on 26-Dec-2019. Now I wonder why I wrote that book. What…