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An interview by Ross Dunn With Dr. Ralph Wilson, the Editor-in-Chief of Web Marketing Today. Dr. Wilson gets lots and lots of writing done and tells Ross how he does it. There’s information there any writer can use.

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Laura Duksta sold well over 100,000 of her self-published children’s book. She has two videos that outline how she did it. One comment from me. I know you can self-publish a book for way way less than the $10,000 she quotes, so don’t lock in on that. Instead, pay attention to who she recommends in the first video and her marketing strategies in the second.

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Yesterday I was, for a bit, convinced I’d never finish what I was calling the final pass on the book I’m working on. My goal was to finish my proofreading so I could turn it over to a copy editor.
It’s a book for an upcoming teleclass called How To Get Your Book Written With Vision And Spirit. But I wanted the book to also work for people who want to get a book written but who don’t want to take the teleclass. I think I’ve accomplished that.
I’ve been working to finish it over the last month, and this last …read more

Books are not only hard to write, the manuscripts tend to get long and messy. I’m going through the draft of my book about writing books and my headings are all messed up. I also changed typeface for the body somewhere in the middle. Plus, I started drafting in double space and then, as I got closer to completion, switched to single, except there are three or four sections that didn’t get switched.
As I’m editing and realized it was past time to set up a style sheet for the book. A style sheet simply defines the style, like typeface, type …read more

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It’s wordless Thursday around here because this week I’ve finished two major projects and my mind is fried.
I’ll probably go to the gym later today, and I’ll probably make it to the library, but that’s about it. Crashing with a dumb novel, that’s me today.
You’d think I wouldn’t be amazed any more at how much a long stint of good writing takes out of me mentally. But it does.
And I’m often surprised.
How do you recharge your mental batteries?
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I suspect many of you are like me. I started writing because I had some sort of a need to write. Somehow, maybe as early as sixth grade, I loved getting words on paper. It was probably around that time that the romance of being a writer began to creep in. Although I started reading Writer’s Digest magazine as soon as I discovered it, and buying Writer’s Market annually in college, I didn’t even submit anything over-the-transom until I was 32.
Of course, at any and every job I’d end up with the writing chores – never paid directly, but loving …read more

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I’m awarding myself and this blog a blue ribbon because sometime last night we passed passed a major page views milestone. I’ve been flirting with that mark for the last couple of months, but am now firmly over it. It’s only the 29th and I’ve already hit the mark.
The thanks, of course, goes to you, the reader, the subscriber and the linker who have helped make this blog grow, and grow, and grow. Big virtual hugs all around.
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(www.thegoldenpencil.com) A while back I tracked the top five or ten posts here and they rarely seemed to change much. Today I looked and wow! Here are the top five with some comments by me:

Testing Lulu.com – this must be part of the ever-increasing interest in self-publishing.
Should The Government Monitor ‘Net Content? An Odd Couple Posting – could it be people are finally getting interested in protecting the Bill of Rights? I hope so!
Publisher Problems With Amazon Continue to Grow – Shame Shame! – with self-publishing on the rise, interest in this issue only make sense.
The tag Work at Home …read more

Blogs by writers and by literary agents gives us some almost insider information that wasn’t available before blogging. If you’re looking for an agent you could do worse than search out their blogs. Here are a few agents and a couple of authors sharing their experiences with agency.
THE NEW LITERARY AGENTS – chatty blog from agents who are fairly new to agenting.
Guide to Literary Agents – a blog about finding and using agents by the author Chuck Sambuchino. Worth spending some time with.
Dystel & Goderich Literary Management – interviews with their authors plus posts by the agents themselves.
How To Get …read more

Contract Worker has a post called 6 Weeks to a Better, Stronger, More Energetic You. Rico is going back to doing push ups – a particular form of exercise I really have no interest in at all, but it did get me thinking about physical fitness.
First, I applaud Rico and anyone who is doing anything to improve their physical fitness. We are animals, after all, and we function best when we move a lot.
Writers, of course, tend to sit around a lot, at a keyboard, maybe moving their fingers… I know – that’s what I do the most of. …read more