{"id":11466,"date":"2011-11-02T07:12:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T11:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=11466"},"modified":"2011-11-10T06:22:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T11:22:13","slug":"500-ways-to-be-a-better-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/11\/02\/500-ways-to-be-a-better-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"500 Ways To Be A Better Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hungry for another double-barrel buckshot of questionable writing wisdom unloaded into your brain-guts? Ohhh, I have just the thing for you, my little ink-fingered word-cobblers.<\/p>\n

Available today: 500 WAYS TO BE A BETTER WRITER<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

At present, the book is $0.99 — but<\/em>! That price will go up after one week (around Wednesday November 9th) to $2.99. Those who buy the PDF now are able to select a “pay what you want” price ($0.99, $1.99, $2.99) if you care to pay more for the book. Absurd? Maybe. But you’d be surprised at how often it happens that folks tell me they want to pay more than a buck for books like this. Consider it an experiment!<\/p>\n

[Please note: current sale is over!]<\/p>\n

Okay, let’s get our procurement options on the table:<\/p>\n

AMAZON (US)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

AMAZON (UK)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

B&N<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n


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(A note about buying direct: if you buy direct, I send you the file — er, directly! — via email. This is generally very fast unless<\/em> extenuating circumstances prevent this. Like, say, if I’m asleep. Or if Paypal delays sending me the head’s up. Or if I experience a massive power outage. You’ll generally have your file within an hour, unless it’s at night, at which point you’ll have it very early in the morning.)<\/p>\n

What The Hell Is This?<\/h3>\n

This is the sequel to 250 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WRITING<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, and, as many sequels go, this one is bigger and badder — twice the size, in fact, of its predecessor.<\/p>\n

It features 20 “Lists of 25” from the blog-bound pages of this very site.<\/p>\n

What lists, you say? Well, here’s what’s in it:<\/p>\n

Prologue: 25 Things You Should Know About Writing Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Questions To Ask As You Write<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Reasons You Won\u2019t Finish That Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Things You Should Know About Endings<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Things You Should Know About Mood<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Things You Should Know About NaNoWriMo<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Things You Should Know About Queries, Synopses And Treatments<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Things You Should Know About Self-Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Things You Should Know About Social Media<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Things You Should Know About Theme<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Things You Should Know About Writing Horror<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Virtues Writers Should Possess<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Ways To Be A Better Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Ways To Defeat Writer\u2019s Block<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Ways To Fuck With Your Characters<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Ways To Make Exposition Your Bitch<\/strong><\/p>\n

25 Ways To Plot, Plan And Prep Your Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Life Cycle Of A Novel (In 25 Steps)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Appendix 1: 25 Sleep-Deprived And Also Drunken Thoughts On Writing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Appendix 2: 25 Brief-But-Hopefully-Potent Writing Exercises<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, four of those are brand new and are not found here at terribleminds — Endings; Mood; Sleep-Deprived And Also Drunken Thoughts; and the writing exercises.<\/p>\n

All told, it’s around 50,000 words of total content.<\/p>\n

None of it is replicated from 250 THINGS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Why Buy?<\/h3>\n

Because this is a mega-explosion of thinking and talking about writing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Got a big bad case of the writer’s block? Exposition a barnacle-crusted colostomy bag around your hip? Don’t know how to cinch that perfect ending, or describe that perfect mood? Doing NaNoWriMo and want a little something-something, some idea-coal for the story-furnace? Or maybe you just want to hear my drunken ramblings about writing? If any of those apply, then this might just be the book for you. Plus, like I said — for the next week, it’s naught but a dollar<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Alternately, maybe you want to support the blog. Maybe you say, “Hey, I come here every week and Wendig hoses me down and delouses my writer-fed delusions and I come away smelling of rye whiskey and — quite curiously — butterscotch, so why wouldn’t I want to throw a couple coins into the ol’ terribleminds<\/strong> coffers?”<\/p>\n

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Or — or! — maybe you say, “Well, a ding-dang-doo, that is one cute baby. I would love a guilt-soaked appeal to whatever instincts drive an adult’s need to protect a tiny big-eyed human, and if I can contribute money toward this kid’s diapers-and-college fund, then that makes me feel warm inside, like freshly-baked bread.” See? There he is, all dressed as Babyzilla. And, apparently, pointing at his crotch. So much like his father! Which is, uhh, presumably me? I do often dress like a monster and run around town pointing out my crotch, so I’d say the bloodline has manifested itself elegantly.<\/p>\n

Those are just three potential reasons to procure this e-book.<\/p>\n

Other reasons might include:<\/p>\n

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A love of profanity!<\/p>\n

Syphilitic insanity!<\/p>\n

A hatred of money and so you must spend it as fast as you get it!<\/p>\n

A zealous love for all things self-published!<\/p>\n

An obsessive and ever-mounting collection of e-books!<\/p>\n

The beard! THE BEARD!<\/p>\n

And so on.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If you procure? Then you have my thanks. If you don’t nab a copy? I definitely<\/em> do not wish a plague of bed-bugs upon your home. That would be rude of me. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to read this book of ancient hexes. Whyfor? Oh. Uhhh. What? No reason. Just buy the book already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hungry for another double-barrel buckshot of questionable writing wisdom unloaded into your brain-guts? Ohhh, I have just the thing for you, my little ink-fingered word-cobblers. Available today: 500 WAYS TO BE A BETTER WRITER. <\/p>\n

Ch-chak! BOOM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,10,11,30,3],"class_list":{"0":"post-11466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-25things","8":"tag-advice","9":"tag-chuckwendig","10":"tag-terribleminds","11":"tag-writing","13":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-2YW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11466"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11479,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions\/11479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}