Author: meltaylor
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Branding.
I met with my small business consultant today, and she and I discussed that illusive and bizarre creature, my brand. She suggested I come up with a handful of key […]
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Off the map.
I write urban fantasy, which means I write stories that generally take place in real cities that actually exist somewhere. I suppose I could make one up every now and […]
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How to help people.
I had a job interview a while ago for office assistant at a chiropractor’s office. I gushed during the interview about how much I enjoyed helping people, how my previous […]
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The balance.
After having gotten into self-publishing, I’ve seen a lot of people talking about getting into it, too, and read about a lot of their techniques and a lot of their […]
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What I’ve learned about self-publishing so far:
I think I may have missed the banana boat. Before I dove into this mad experiment, I did some research on who was self-publishing, how to do it myself, and […]
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I’m proud of my development as a writer.
That’s a good feeling, and one I forget a lot. I think that’s an artist thing, too — or maybe a writer thing. Forgetting to be proud of your accomplishments. […]
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Dark stories scare me.
Which is really bizarre, since that’s the kind of thing I write. I had to swear off Stephen King after just 3 books, I had to proclaim to my husband […]
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The belly dance/writing crossover.
I talked about artists’ brains in a previous post, and how it seems like we can’t stick to just one medium. I didn’t get too many comments here, but when […]
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Hard lessons in writing: Once you finish, do it again.
I mean, of course, that deja-vu insanity, editing. As a novelist, you’ve got to not only write the whole book, but then you have to sit down and read it […]
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Hard lessons in writing: English is bizarre.
The very first thing I started working on as a baby writer was grammar. That and spelling. As a thirteen-year-old with a typewriter, I thought that the most important thing […]
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