The meaning of literary genre
Literary genre is used by bookstores to separate books into different sections. It’s also a matter of life and death for many readers/writers to assign a genre or not to the book of another writer.
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What do you wear when you write?
You’re a writer. An artist. You use words to enhance people’s emotions and teleport them in the imaginary universe you’re building. Maybe your mind will work better if your body follows.
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The pragmatic writer’s guide to the publishing houses ecosystem
Before putting all your hopes into the standard publishing industry and spend years discovering the romantic side of rejection letters here is some tough love you should deal with:
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The best time to write your book
The best time to write was before you opened your browser, visited this website, and read this article.
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How much is your book worth to you?
How much will you ask for it? Is it a book as an entity priceless?
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A writer promotes to writers
The copy/paste action in a writer’s group is a waste of time and energy you will never get back. Total waste. Mass marketing like this is expensive even if you don’t realize now.
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What’s in it for you?
Why do you write? Why do you breathe? Why do you wake up in the morning? What’s in it for you?
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Good advice
There goes out the window the general definition for good advice. I care not if is critique or feedback, or just mean and cynical advice. If it motivates me to keep doing what I do is good enough for me.
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We’re in the storytelling business
Don’t deceive yourself. You’re not just telling stories. You’re telling stories and getting paid for it.
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Would you buy a book because…
Would you really buy a book because…
Everyone else is reading it?
It has thousands of 5* reviews on Amazon?
You think the person who wrote the 1* review is an idiot which means the book is good?
One of your friends wrote it?
You like the cover?
What it takes to become a writer?
Unyielding work ethic
Building a start-up means you have to decide what you will do and also what you won’t. Believe in your dream, work day and night and never compromise. It sounds difficult because it is. I can vouch for this with every night when I wake up searching my notepad under the bed to write an idea.
There isn’t any writer consumed by the drive to write who doesn’t understand what I wrote above.
The publishing Big Five dilemma
The Big Five publishing houses produce almost 60% of the English-language books and thousands of small publishing houses and self-published authors produce the rest. The turnover and the rate of failure of the little guys are huge.
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