Articles and essays– I write more than fiction.
My business plan is meant almost solely for my use (aren’t you glad I’m sharing?), so note the format is more fluid, in more of a rough draft state.
Here’s some excerpts:
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Experts talk about writing every day, or having a writing goal per week, or even praise writers who work the job as close to full-time as they can get.
Yet, so many of us struggling as writers fit our writing into fractions of time throughout a season of life, around kids, chores, full-time jobs, crises, tragedy, and trauma.
Is it possible to become a successful writer when your time spent writing is scattered over various minutes stolen here and there in a demanding life?
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Well, if you’re an established writer like Brandon Sanderson, L.E. Modesitt, or David Weber, and you have a business plan, the intended audience may include investors, publishers, fellow writers, employees… Of course, I’m guessing, as I remain unpublished.
While I hope you benefit indirectly from my business plan via this series, my business plan is primarily for my own benefit.
Look out for the next in the series where I discuss how my business plan benefits me in becoming a published novelist.
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What makes a scene?
My code-writing persona is considering developing an app for writers, so I’ve been musing on scenes.
Want to get technical? Want a comprehensive breakdown of the parts of a scene?
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Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us;
Psalm 90:17
And confirm for us the work of our hands;
Yes, confirm the work of our hands.
Re-entering the workforce can seem daunting. But, take heart – God is with you.
More options than ever before exist to work remotely, working from home or elsewhere.
Continue readingCertain writers fall securely into the plotter camp, while others write off-the-cuff. I jump back and forth between camps. And, at times, it’s wearying.
With Salvage, I’m really trying to plan my scenes more than before. I’m using a free airtable account to track my scene data, but it’s possible that it’s moving from useful planning to overkill.
So, just to dive in and write new scenes seems a little like wandering in a field of corn on a dark night (I come from a long line of Iowa corn farmers, and I live in Nebraska; the simile works for me).
Yet, after a certain level of planning and scene data, it’s like wandering through a very crowded cereal aisle, trying to figure out what take off the shelf.
So, I’m spending too much time trying to get the scene data just as I want it, and too little time moving Salvage forward.
What’s the right balance?
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How wide will you spread your net?
Going to concentrate just on that first novel? Are you going write short stories for publication? Sell articles online for money?
Will this post help you with the business side of writing?
Despite my oh-so-limited time to spend on anything writing related, I am treating my writing as a business. I’ve had a business plan from the beginning. Not a professional, capture-venture-capital kind of business plan, but a comprehensive guide to my own efforts to be successful. It’s an ever-evolving document as I flesh out details.
This is the first in a series of posts about my business plan. Hope it helps!
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Over the years in conversation with other moms in-person or online, the subject of how we use Alexa at home has come up. Here are some of the common questions people have.
Feel free to send me more questions on this — I’m glad to help.
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…an astounding ambiguity with terminology. You’d think, as long as writing has been around, those in the publishing industry would have agreed to standard definitions, a standard vocabulary. Not so.
And, surprisingly, neither has the software industry. Software being considered more of a science, one would expect practitioners to have agreed on common terms. Yet, even what title you call one who codes, develops, and engineers software varies: software engineer, programmer, software developer, systems engineer, systems analyst, and many more.
So, with those who read a book in draft form one can have critiquers, alpha-readers, beta-readers, writing partners, mentors, development editors, line-by-line editors, and more.
One might argue that each of these titles connotes a different flavor of responsibility, but the lines are definitely blurred.