Keeping It Real IV

Starting this week, I’ve decided to do something different with this series of articles. Instead of a weekly progress report, I want to write about the journey to bring a novel — a creative work — into the world. As Hillary Clinton wrote, it takes a village to raise a child. It may not take a village to write a book (though sounding boards are a wonderful thing), it does take a village to publish one. When I took my initial steps toward the goal of publishing The Gideon Effect, I had no idea how much help I’d find or have offered to me along the way.

I will have many friends to list on my eventual acknowledgments page. It may be longer than a page.

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Weekly Writer’s Roundup Volume IV

For your reading pleasure this weekend, here are several articles about writing, publishing and promoting I’ve read this week and found useful, thought-provoking, and otherwise helpful. Enjoy!

Writing

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Journaling

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Weekly Writer’s Roundup Volume III

For your reading pleasure this weekend, here are several articles I’ve read this week and found useful, thought-provoking, and otherwise helpful. I’m a day late this time due to an avalanche of distractions. I think I’ll try publishing these on the weekend for a bit and see if my schedule works out better that way.

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Keeping It Real II

Last Monday, I set out some goals for the next few months on my path to getting my novelĀ The Gideon Effect published and some objectives for the week. Today, I look back at last week’s list, see how I did, and give myself some new assignments for the coming week.

Last week’s objectives:

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Weekly Writer’s Roundup Volume 2

For your reading pleasure this weekend, I’d like to share several articles I’ve read this week and found useful, thought-provoking, and otherwise helpful. It’s been a busy week both in terms of the beta read for my novel The Gideon Effect, and in terms of my numerous research projects as I figure out the next steps on the route to eventually publishing the novel. Last week I realized there may be some value for others in collating the articles I find useful as I go through the process.

Vintage Typewriter
Vintage Typewriter

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