Celebrating Independent Authors
Carpe occasio.
There are a lot of good moments as a writer, stretched out over the course of writing (and hopefully, selling) a book. Maybe a line of description that you write which surprises you. Maybe something a character “says” that you could swear they did say, while your presence as a writer above the page or in front of the screen was just that: A presence. Like you watched it happen, without doing it yourself. Continue reading “Ed’s Casual Friday: Seize the moment.”
This post isn’t exactly covering new ground, it is more along the lines of gathering a number of tips, tricks, and advisories from other posts hither, thither, and everywhither, into one place. Our own KS Brooks trumpeted betas to the heavens only yesterday, and as has previously been stated, it is ALWAYS a good idea to have an editor, a proofreader, or beta readers who are not you looking at your writing. Otherwise, your brain is going to see what it wants/expects to see when it is reading stuff you wrote. Continue reading “Ed’s Casual Friday: Do NOT self-edit. (but when you do…)”
Non sequitur –
Let us call it a hazard of the driving profession.
But say you are heading east from Glendale on the US 60 – or as it is also known, the Superstition Highway – and let us say you are behind the wheel of a Mercedes Benz 600 Limo with a v12 lurking under the hood. That’s right. Twelve cylinders. Twelve cylinders nobody actually uses, as a limo does start-and-stop traffic downtown, idles at stoplights, parks in lots outside posh restaurants and seedy houses on the south side. The car never gets to growl. Never gets to sow its oats. But this is 11:30 PM on a Friday, and every officer of the Phoenix law is downtown seeing traffic safely out of the ballpark, and more power to them. The Superstition is just that. Dark. Empty.
This is not the first time somebody here at Indies Unlimited has opined about the writer-reviewer relationship. Our illustrious Evil Mastermind, Stephen Tiberius Hise, did a not one, not two, but three part investigation only last year. My weekly habit of ending columns with a real One-Star Review on a “classic” book is always intended as a friendly reminder that somebody out there hates every book ever written. But like the noted philosopher David Coverdale from the University of Whitesnake boldly proclaimed, here I go again. 😉 Continue reading “Ed’s Casual Friday: Writers & Reviewers (and the O.K. Corral)”