Publishing

  • Show but Please Tell

    Show, don’t tell is not the last word in writing.

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  • Traditional vs Self

    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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  • Ending a story

    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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  • Promote yourself

    You have struggled to produce your masterpiece. COVID sends it down the whirlpool.

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  • Beyond the Nasion

    Train your breath and your senses to focus

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  • There are ways and ways to end your life yourself. That is called suicide and is actually prohibited in some religions not to mention the law in some countries. Given all this one would think that suicide is easy like eating. Be assured it is not. It is worse than trying to sleep. The biggest…

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  • Publishing Woes

    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…

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