Author: meltaylor
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Marketability.
I was at a craft fair peddling my books yesterday, and the woman at the booth beside me told me she and her girlfriend are writing a children’s book. She […]
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Artist’s brains.
Stop me if I’m wrong here, but I noticed something funny about artists a while back, and many of my artist friends have agreed. I’ve never met an artist who […]
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Self-published crap.
I’ve picked up a handful of self-published books over the years, not many, and I have to say, I have noticed a distinct lack of polish in the writing in […]
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Self-taught.
This will be a bit of a rant, and I’ll apologize in advance, and I’ll try to keep it at least a little interesting. I am almost entirely self-taught. In […]
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Quality over quantity.
One of the most-repeated pieces of advice I keep hearing from other self-publishers is to write fast. Put out a lot of content in a short amount of time. Get […]
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I make faces while writing.
I once got a piece of advice from a writing coach: “You have to write it like it was when you were there.” I love this. It embodies for me […]
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Deliberate flubbing.
When you’re writing fiction, you have to make the same grammatical mistakes that your characters would make. As in, the same mistakes that human beings make when they’re talking. When […]
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The faults in others.
I have this friend. He’s one of the guitarists in my band. He’s AMAZING. He writes this original stuff that is funky and dance-y and catchy and deep and thought […]
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Goals.
One of my friends at work keeps telling me I won’t be working at that job next year. She means that she thinks I will be successful with my books, […]
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“I decided to be a writer.”
I like listening to my local public radio station, but sometimes the guests make me want to scream. In the last few weeks, two different shows interviewed the guy who […]
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