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Quotes from “How to Write One Song” by Jeff Tweedy
I’m not a songwriter—at least not yet—but an accomplished songwriter recommended Tweedy’s book to me. His words of encouragement and practical insight are helpful for all writers. Here’s a sampling: “Maybe it’s a cliché, but you have to focus on verbs over nouns—what you want to do, not what you want to be.” “At the […]
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The book every overwhelmed creative needs: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
I fell down the rabbit hole of YouTube videos about Notion. In fact, the website you’re reading this on is created in Notion and hosted by Super.so—that’s how far down the hole I fell. YouTube’s algorithm eventually led me to watch Ali Abdaal’s “How to Organise Your Life – Building a Second Brain,” which eventually […]
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The brutal truth about earning out
“Seventy percent of authors don’t earn out.” That’s publishing guru Jane Friedman during her excellent and information-laden workshop, “How to Get Your Book Traditionally Published” at DFWCon 2017. What does earning out mean? When an author signs a book deal with a publisher, the publisher pays the author in the form of an advance on […]
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5 reasons I self-published
A popular question for self-publishers is, “Why did you choose self-publishing over traditional publishing?” While an average reader may assume that most self-publishers chose that route because they simply couldn’t get a traditional book deal, this can be far from the truth. There are a number of reasons why a writer might choose to self-publish. […]
