osmarrow.com
Author of litRPG series THE HERO SLAYERS and LOOPKEEPER.
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In other news, my Great Book Heist was a roaring success
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You've found my weak spot - the words "found family" make any book irresistible to me
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Even better, I can download it on KU and you can save the promo days!
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Absolutely love this nature connection list. I live in the centre of a major city so some of these are harder for me, but perhaps all the more important as a result!
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Definitely the latter - it's something I've struggled with for years, even before I started writing, so I know it's something I'm susceptible to. As, I imagine, a lot of us are!
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So here are some others things that are, in fact, productive:
🎨 Enjoying art
🌳 Being in nature
🍲 Cooking a nutritious meal
🎵 Listening to a new album
🚶 Going for a walk
🛀 Having some 'me' time
📖 Journalling, or writing for yourself
🙂 Stopping work early (not when you're exhausted)
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And finally, the Community Leaderboard - a new one for 2025. This is essentially a shared word count leaderboard where you can support (or race?) your author friends!
Get it here: www.patreon.com/posts/commun...
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The Project Planners - Track your project against expected word count, plot beats, and more.
Get them here: www.patreon.com/posts/projec...
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The Writing Tracker - Track your word count, set targets, plan your year, and more.
I just planned out my 2025, and now I know exactly how soon I can expect each project to be ready!
Get it here: www.patreon.com/posts/writin...
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*slams shitpost button repeatedly*
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I'm 31 so maybe a little late to be outgrowing my teenage fancies!
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I think you're right on the money there, very well put
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100%, Montserrat, 11
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For books, that emotion might be as profound as "I want to see how this character reconnects with his long-lost son" or it might be something as simple as "I want to see this cool superpower in action!" Whatever it is, build your blurb around that.
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When we write marketing copy, we should aim to highlight our USP - the aspect of our product that makes it stand out against others. What makes the book different?
But it's not as simple as just explaining that USP; we should be putting the associated emotional connection front and centre.
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Will join and fire my air horn if your WPM ever drop below 40
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I've done both over the years, but I think I started by focusing on just one book (and I thought "This is it! My magnum opus! I'm gonna be big!")
Looking back... maybe I, in fact, was not writing my magnum opus. Maybe I was learning.
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Horrific semicolon % in this post
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That's an absolutely killer cover
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And sometimes that's a perfectly valid reason! I've been focusing on transitioning to writing full time so I didn't have the luxury of writing something without an audience - but that might change...
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This might just be the post that gets me to give RoP another go - I didn't have strong feelings one way or the other after the 1st season so I'm glad to hear the 2nd is a little faster paced!