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Up to 76k words on "Junker" today. Estimated end count around 100k. I sometimes run to 150k. My LEOs are relocated to a decommissioned missile silo at the moment. My two MCs are in Europe headed toward a really massive Pile of Jinks surrounded in razor wire. :) #writingcommunity #booksky

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Expect things to be highly dynamic tomorrow. Be careful and thoughtful if you are in large groups. Things are coming to a head. Like a big ol zit and citizens are squeezing.

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The stock market continues its plunge today. And at the grocery store - rising prices but guess what, there will be a tank parade after this asshat spit on veterans. Put a NO KINGS sign in your front yard or inside your vehicle window tomorrow. #protests #nokings

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Visit your local library to pick up a short story collection to read. Look at your poetry collections. Look at anthologies in your genre. Sniff around at whats in the new section. Reading is FREE. Stop giving yourself explanations for failures. #writingcommunity #booksky #libraries #reading

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A 50 Million $$$ military parade suggests one man with inadequate penis size - after the fact, those roads will cost millions more to repair and for what? Tomorrow is 🤴NO KINGS 🖕day with citizens telling this awful regime to f*** off. Honk at your local protest site. #writingcommunity #booksky

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I'm up early today because the pool is early for me. I have stopped the gout pill and hope current toe health remains stable. I have mail to drop at the post office on my way. It's Friday in early summer and I intend to enjoy it out there.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Fans like an active 'career building' writer. They feel like they discovered you early and are following your career like a celebrity groupie. Be active. Do the thing. Ride out the imposter syndrome crap. Do more of the thing. You are doing this, ikky bits and all. #writingcommunity #booksky

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

If you feel slammed by rejections (there are lots of rejections for every sale) you haul your butt off to a mental health counselor to help your improve your reaction. You don't sit on your hands and stop submitting work. Don't be the constipation 💩 in your career. #writingcommunity #booksky

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Get used to moving multiple pieces of writing on a weekly basis seeking new sales. We call this 'rotation'. When you land a sale and the contract is fair, you TELL your fan base why you are having a good day. They will be looking forward to each sale. Fans are fans!!! #writingcommunity #booksky

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Poetry is a viable market for writers. You need a poetry market list as well as short stories, flash, micro fiction, nonfiction, anthology, collection, foreign markets listings. This is basic business. Create your list management system and use it. #writingcommunity #booksky #marketlistings

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Short stories or shorter fiction, poetry, nonfiction are all fingers on the same hand writing novels. It is a body of work. It tracks your life across your struggles and challenges. It expresses your thoughts long after you are dead and gone. Write well! #writingcommunity #booksky #shortfiction

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The puny little nothing short story you write this week and struggle to sell into next year, may be the single asset that funds your grand children's lives. I'm serious. Treat your writing as serious. Handle it properly. Maybe you suck. Maybe suck sells. #writingcommunity #booksky #shortstories

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Short stories can be optioned for films. These contracts can be monsters in terms of $$$ and manipulation of story for film purposes. ALWAYS get a lawyer for these who is familiar with option contracts. You may also need representation at that point. #writingcommunity #booksky #filmoptions

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A short story (et al) can be sold to a magazine and to an anthology so long as their contracts are not in conflict. You need to come up to speed on how sales operate. If you are prolific you may need a contract lawyer to review all contracts. #writingcommunity #booksky #contracts #lawyers

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Your physical file may well include the polished version of your story printed out and stapled together, dated, copyright registered number. This establishes what the story is for your heirs. Behind that copy are your sales contracts in order of sales. #writingcommunity #booksky #paperwork #files

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Learning basic bookkeeping as a writer is simply part of your writing life. Every single story, poem, flash or article is a potential asset that will exceed your lifespan by up to 70 years. It's your job to create and manage these assets for yourself and posterity. #writingcommunity #booksky

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

If you are up the ass in debt this second then acknowledge you currently suck at money management. Your necessary remedy is to take one or more courses on money management to LEARN how to manage your writing career money. Take the courses. LEARN. #writingcommunity #booksky #moneymanagement

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A single story has multiple rights. You manage and defend each of these. Stories have first rights, second rights, etc... and foreign rights in various languages and countries. All of these are $$$ for you. These are financial assets so start treating them like money. #writingcommunity #booksky

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

You should have a separate file (mine is plastic) for stories and their individual contracts and a section on editors. You need to track all of your story contracts and keep track of when rights revert. This may include multiple rights reversions on one story. #writingcommunity #booksky #tracking

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Build an anthology market list. Mine is a spreadsheet, same as my regular short fiction market list. You want a section for the editors name and links to where they hide out in various social media. You want to hear about their next anthology plans. #writingcommunity #booksky #editors #markets

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

An anthology is a good way to work with specific editors. Editors tend to know other editors. Reputation is important and if one buys you, others look over to see why. An anthology is passed around a bit finding you new fans. You need every fan possible. #writingcommunity #booksky #anthology

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Let's take a look at anthologies. An anthology is a collection of short works by different authors combined in one book. An anthology is a good sale. Make sure the anthology contract is good (do some due diligence) and that you retain rights afterwards. #writingcommunity #booksky #anthologies

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The fans you generate today are the fans who spearhead buying your novels later. They are the early purchases that drive the algorithm that moves your novel on launch upward into view of new readers. Fans are incredibly important to you. FEED them shorts! #writingcommunity #booksky #shortfiction

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Today is when we submit and manage our short stories in order to grow our writing career. You need stories in rotation. These can be short stories, flash, micro flash, poetry, nonfiction and even novelettes. You need your name on writing and fans. #writingcommunity #booksky #shortstories

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It's Friday with the stock market in freefall this morning. Please understand the stock market is not the economy but it is a waving flag of investor fear. I'm up too damn early this morning and in no mood for the reigning chaos of asshats. Be kind to yourself today, someone needs to...

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Did the pool and it was full, except for my lane. I may be slightly scary to some folks. Let's just say that I have no difficulty not being overly social. I'm there to swim, not to chat.

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Become a fan-fiction writer of your own novel. This requires you to plan in at least a one-year resting period where you forget it. When you return after a year, your fan objectivity will be available. You can cheat on your former self. It's allowed. #writingcommunity #booksky #fanfiction #write

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I was a child puddle splasher. Mud was okay too. I'm not delicate but gleeful. Splashing others has happened. I do write bad poetry and sometimes sell it. Can I rhyme that? I've grown backwards into my own skin. Now to ungrow my aches. When did I sign up for aging?

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This is a pool and lap swim morning for me. I can now put on my right shoe which means my foot is slowly shrinking back to normal. Toe is only a little weird. I love swimming. I'm starting today's write at 72k words of projected 100k on "Junker". Also a change the sheets day - in the life...

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Your success is the success of all creators. Support other creators (writers, artists, musicians). We are a small community under intense hostile pressures. Your successes encourage others to continue creating, continue doing the thing. Don't self-defeat. #writingcommunity #booksky #writinglife

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You should be a fan reader of the exact sub-genre you write in. You should know all the best titles. You should go hear the top writers at readings. You should be friendly and professional and fan geek them online and at conventions. Pay attention. #writingcommunity #booksky #fanreading

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Today you should be spending your 2 dedicated writing career hours on READING. I'm so mean to you. I really don't care what you were planning for your slacker Thursday. I'm peeping your procrastination. Read. Read. Read! Listening to audio books counts. #writingcommunity #booksky #reading

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We change the direction of our writing life one decision at a time. It is incremental. It is slow. It is like turning an aircraft carrier slow. You are changing everything to align precisely with creating a writing career and novel sales. #writingcommunity #booksky #writinglife #careerbuilding

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I try to repeat advice weekly as I know a lot of writers procrastinate or are avoidant of anything related to marketing or career building. Change is a hard and slow process of shifting bad habitual thinking into positive forward actions. #writingcommunity #booksky #writingcareer #howto

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Writing is a lot like a pedal car. You are pushing it forward with two legs pedaling at the same time. You are writing a novel. You are writing a short story, poem, flash, nonfiction. These two writing concerns help your career move forward. #writingcommunity #booksky #writing #careerwriting

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Library reading is FREE. You can be skint and still move your career forward today. Writing short stories is FREE. You can move your career forward today. Winning awards is FREE. You must submit your work to enter the pool. It too is FREE. #writingcommunity #booksky #writingcareer #mostlyFREE

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Take one solid step each day to forward your writing career. If you haven't read for comps then today will be about getting books on order through your library. No excuses. You have a lot of reading to do to gather the info you need to help your novel later. #writingcommunity #booksky #library

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