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The Writing Life Compared

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon January 7, 2021
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As Soon as Your Book Is Published (Unpublished Author Edition)

  • Your hair will become fuller, lusher, and shinier.
  • You will only write a thousand words a day to make a million dollars a year.
  • You’ll be a bestselling author, and every book will float to the top of the charts.
  • You will be the most popular author at writers conferences.
  • Aspiring authors will fawn over you, keen for your wisdom.
  • You can spend most of your time traveling for leisure and to conferences.
  • Your patina of literary accomplishment will impress friends, family, and strangers.
  • Your editor will never touch your work because of your brilliance.

As Soon as Your Book Is Published (Published Author Edition)

  • Your hair may be a mess since you have no time to visit the salon.
  • You have to write like a fiend every day to make bank.
  • You find that bestseller lists are mercurial.
  • Conferences engage lots of fashionable authors.
  • Teaching fawning writers is work.
  • You have to schedule business and leisure travel around deadlines.
  • Patina doesn’t pay the electric bill.
  • Your editor may exercise his latitude to request comprehensive rewrites.
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How to Write Better & Faster With Plottr and the Snowflake Method

By Thomas Umstattd, Jr.on January 5, 2021
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As a kid, peanut butter was always paired with only one thing: jelly. The big discussion between the other kids was if your mom used grape or strawberry jelly.  Then one day, one of my friends told me about a new candy that combined peanut butter with chocolate. How on earth could that be good? Then I tried it, and my life was forever changed. I had my first candy with peanut butter and chocolate, …

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How to Write Better & Faster With Plottr and the Snowflake Method

By Thomas Umstattd, Jr.on January 5, 2021
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As a kid, peanut butter was always paired with only one thing: jelly. The big discussion between the other kids was if your mom used grape or strawberry jelly.  Then one day, one of my friends told me about a new candy that combined peanut butter with chocolate. How on earth could that be good? […]
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Category: The Writing Life

Your Name in Lights

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon December 17, 2020
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I often receive submissions from authors who say something along the lines of, “I have a devotional book, a romance, a fantasy, a collection of poems, a novella, a marriage book, and a screenplay available for representation.” This sounds great, right? The agent can choose from a variety of projects, perhaps marketing them all! Sheer volume will lead to success! If only. As a creative, I get that …

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You Provide Our Audience!

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon December 10, 2020
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In speaking with a friend recently, she commented, “I don’t understand why Icabod gets invited to every event. Everyone knows who he is, but no one likes him.” I countered that, in attending every event, Icabod is providing a service. As an attendee, he is helping to make the party a success. Our readers provide an audience. They are our bookwormish partygoers. And though Icabod may be clueless as …

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Simon & Schuster Bought by Penguin Random House Discussion With Steve Laube

By Thomas Umstattd, Jr.on December 8, 2020
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For everything there is a season.  A time to gather stones and a time to scatter stones.  A time to merge companies and a time to spin off new companies.  Right now, it is a time for merging companies. The “Big Five” are now the “Big Four.” You may have heard about the recent merger between Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House.  How does this new change affect you, as an author? …

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Simon & Schuster Bought by Penguin Random House Discussion With Steve Laube

By Thomas Umstattd, Jr.on December 8, 2020
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For everything, there is a season.  A time to gather stones and a time to scatter stones.  A time to merge companies and a time to spin off new companies.  Right now, it is a time for merging companies.   The “Big Five” are now the “Big Four.”   You may have heard about the recent […]
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How to Write for Children with Linda Howard

By Thomas Umstattd, Jr.on November 24, 2020
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Children’s books are the fastest growing segment of publishing in 2020. There was a time a few months ago when The Very Hungry Caterpillar was in the top 10 of all products on Amazon–not only books, but all products in the everything store. The pandemic has caused many parents to spend more time with their children, and those parents are desperate for an alternative to screen time.  So, how do you …

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How to Write for Children with Linda Howard

By Thomas Umstattd, Jr.on November 24, 2020
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Children’s books are the fastest-growing segment of publishing in 2020. There was a time a few months ago when The Very Hungry Caterpillar was in the top 10 of all products on Amazon–not only books but all products in the everything store. The pandemic has caused many parents to spend more time with their children, […]
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When the Movie Isn’t True to Your Story

By Tamela Hancock Murrayon November 19, 2020
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Most writers love the idea of a film company bringing their books to life. However, if past movies based on books serve as examples, most authors can’t count on their stories being presented with complete accuracy, hence, the phrases “adaption” and “based on” the novel. Take the book Elmer Gantry, written in 1926. Sinclair Lewis, an atheist, wrote a satire about a minister who should never have …

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