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Welcome!
I am a writer. I dream of stories in fiction, and daylight often gives non-fiction ideas.
In fiction my current work, Salvage, is in the science fiction genre, while other works planned are in mainstream and children’s fiction.
In nonfiction, I have authored articles on a variety of subjects and blog posts related to the craft and business of writing.
Back to Work: Quick Cash
Sometimes you need the cash faster than you can find a job or build your business.
I hear you! I’m diving into all this myself. After researching freelancing online as well as on writing books for quite some time, I now have my own platforms for both freelance and novel writing and software development, but I need cash sooner than my personal brands will generate.
In my next post in this series, we’ll cover full-time work, but for now here’s a few ideas for some extra cash:
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Patterns of Dialogue and Tags
Uncertain about your dialogue tags and punctuation? Perhaps this discussion will help.
Continue readingOperating Online: Social Media Operations
My current business plan section on operating online definitely needs an overhaul.
I have, however, collected quite a few best practices and quite a few thoughts on content, newsletters, websites and more.
Up this week is my current schedule for content:
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Operating a Writing Career as a Business: What are the Pieces?
So, you’re taking this writing thing seriously. You want to develop it into a business and a career.
What are the pieces to operating a writing business? How are you going to do so?
Here are the sections in my operations plan:
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Business Plan: Production, Draft to Book Ready Glimpse
In the plan’s novel production process, I created a visual for the steps from draft to book ready.
Hope this helps you.
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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
Groucho Marx
Business Plan: Production
Production Plan
Products
For my products, I have separate file, a MS Word document at the moment, that tracks works in progress and works on hold.
The Process
The production process will cover the entire lifetime of a work. Right now, it covers up through digital publication.
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