A lot has happened since I started writing novels fifteen years ago. Back then most writers considered New York publishers the only way to go, and the only way to be real authors. These days, writers are more realistic, myself included. A lot of us have become self-published authors, and are happy with that.
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Gearing Up For Lens-Hub Editing at HubPages
A few weeks ago I opened up my Squidoo dashboard to see a message telling me the “Big News” … that HubPages was aquiring “key content” from Squidoo, and that my beloved writing site, Squidoo, was going out of business.
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Open Letter of Thanks to Seth Godin
Hi Seth, I’ve decided to write you an open letter on my blog today. I can’t tell you how sorry I am that the Squidoo site is ending. There’s a deep, sad place in my heart this week. But more than that, there’s gratitude for the effort you put into making Squidoo a good experience for so many of us.
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A Preview of River Girl is LIVE at CreateSpace Now
I’m getting close to publication with my River Girl novel.
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Blog Retrofitting: Revisions, Updates, and Maintenance
I have a collection of blogs, so blog retrofitting is constantly on my to-do list. Each day I choose a blog and go there to see what I can do to make it better.
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Do You Want a Job or Do You Want to Be Prosperous?
I am amazed at the number of people who look for jobs online or off, who could instead be building momentum to create their own online small business. No great thing is accomplished overnight, and there’s no such thing as easy money online, unless you’re just looking for dribbles and tiny paystreams.
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Two Simple Productivity Tools For Content Writers
If you want to get your writing revised and website work organized enough to support you through the recession, put yourself in gear and make the work load manageable. One thing is certain – disorganization doesn’t help.
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Can a Community Ever Really be Unified?
Last night I attended a community business meeting at which a group of participants were talking about an absent person who had earned a bad reputation. Most of the people in the group were clearly incensed at something the absent person hadn’t done right, but a few others said we should forget the past, all be friends, and have a unified community.
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Failure Is Not An Option
Don’t quit
Others have succeeded – and so can you. The key to success is to keep trying. Don’t quit. Quitting is the swift route to failure and you must not fail. You cannot fail. So regard quitting as the one thing you absolutely cannot do.
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What’s New – November 2010 – Running Myself Ragged
November 5: – I created an editorial calendar a few days ago using Google Calendar. I have so many sites I write for now, I had to give myself four to five tasks daily for six days. My only regular Sunday task is to clear out my email; I use Outlook Express, and it gets cluttered easily. Lately it seems spam has increased dramatically. I need to set more message rules to get that under control again! I may also save most fiction writing tasks for Sunday as well.
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