An Experiment’s Results and an Announcement
Several months ago, I made all my works free everywhere I could as a special offer. I left them free in a couple, without advertising this, since then. I have sold exactly zero copies of anything for money since then. I have gotten several downloads of each title in the places where they were free. […]
Progress Report
Instead of listing all my works-in-progress and getting depressed by how many I haven’t worked on in ages, this year I am instead updating how far I’ve come on the to do list I posted at the beginning of the year . . . with new items being added because I’m great at making plans, but […]
Progress Report
Instead of listing all my works-in-progress and getting depressed by how many I haven’t worked on in ages, this year I am instead updating how far I’ve come on the to do list I posted at the beginning of the year. With new items being added because I’m great at making plans, but suck at sticking to […]
Not every story needs to be a novel
Today’s post starts a series that’s aimed at NaNoWriMoers, but should contain advice useful to all authors. Non-authory content will still be posted roughly once a week though, including a new feature starting later this week! Today I’m going to talk about story length. Now, this is a kind of odd thing for me to […]
The Yellow Wallpaper, the problems with star ratings, and escapist fiction
In college I briefly was an English major. During this less than enjoyable time, I had to read many, many depressing stories. “The Yellow Wallpaper” has come in my mind to represent all of them, partially because it was one of the final straws in me changing my major. It was a brilliant story, an […]