Posts Tagged ‘advice’

  • How To Self-Publish So It Benefits Readers?

    How To Self-Publish So It Benefits Readers?

    January 12th, 2012 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 56 Comments

    We’ve thought about the one side of that equation — the writer — but nobody seems to be talking about the other half of that. Nobody’s talking about how self-publishing benefits readers. The reason? It doesn’t. Not yet, and not directly. If anybody’s left out in the cold when authors self-publish it’s readers.

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  • 25 Things Writers Should Know About Finding Their Voice

    25 Things Writers Should Know About Finding Their Voice

    January 10th, 2012 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 56 Comments

    One of the questions that’s been driving me of late is, “Just what the hell is an author’s voice and how does he find it and what does he do with it once he has it? Does it make smoothies? Would you eat it with a goat, would you eat it in a boat?” So, I figured I’d see if I couldn’t conjure 25 things I think about a writer and his voice.

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  • 25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing

    25 Things Writers Should Stop Doing

    January 3rd, 2012 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 492 Comments

    I read this cool article last week — “30 Things To Stop Doing To Yourself” — and I thought, hey, heeeey, that’s interesting. Writers might could use their own version of that. So, I started to cobble one together. And, of course, as most of these writing-related posts become, it ended up that for the [...]

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  • Top 25 Terribleminds Posts Of 2011

    Top 25 Terribleminds Posts Of 2011

    December 27th, 2011 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 17 Comments

    It’s always interesting to see which posts strike a chord and which don’t — which ones catch fire and go “viral” via sites like Stumbleupon or what-have-you. Most of these top posts of the year come from this year, which is cool. A few standbys from 2010 show up again (dang, that Beware of Writer post keeps popping up here and there), but most of these are from the last 12 months.

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  • Don’t Get Burned By Branding

    Don’t Get Burned By Branding

    December 21st, 2011 | The Ramble | terribleminds | 56 Comments

    Been thinking a bit about “brand” recently in terms of being an author. What I’m trying to suss out is, where does this leave an author in terms of branding himself or being branded? Is this more a symbol of what the author represents to customers, or is it instead an indelible mark scorched into the author’s metaphorical flesh?

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