Alex’s writing advice and book recommendations
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LGBT literature recommendation: Sexiled: My Sexist Party Leader Kicked Me Out, So I Teamed Up With a Mythical Sorceress!
Third Monday will be for a LGBT literature recommendation. This is exclusively for prose works (aka not comics, shows, etc. Just written works), and the fourth Monday will focus on non-prose works. I will link to Amazon for these and may receive payments for referral links. These will tie into the post from the first…
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Advice I take issue with: write what’s popular
This is a semi-regular column I will do on the second Friday of the month if I have advice that I dislike and can tie into the month’s theme. This month it’s all about ignoring what you like to read about and instead choosing to write what’s popular, and why I highly recommend against it.…
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That blank white page
Welcome to the Random Writing Advice corner. Here, more offbeat or loosely connected pieces of writing advice that don’t fit within the main post of the month will be posted. These will either be on the first or second Wednesday of the month, depending on if I have announcements on the first Wednesday. For the…
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How I came up with Unfinished Business: A thought about the fantasy genre
So, shortly after I finished my first story, I started on my second, Unfinished Business. The posts on the second Monday of the month will focus on that story, and the creative process behind it. All from a thought The idea for Unfinished Business came from a simple thought: Why do we never see elves…
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How I came up with Raven: Priestess of Nocturne’s concept
Every first Friday of the month, I will write about how the current month’s theme applies to how I created Raven: Priestess of Nocturne. For this month, it’s about how I got the general concept and world down. Inspiration The idea didn’t really dome from my advice to write what you like to read, at…
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Random update and a Did You Know about Kindle Direct Publishing
The random update is that advertising should start appearing today. As to the Did You Know, did you know that in order to include your book on Kindle Unlimited, you have to agree to only publish it on Amazon? This means no inclusion on Google Play Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, or Apple Books. It’s…
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What should I write about?
The number one question any writer should, and probably will, ask is “what should I write about?”
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“I want to write a novel”
I remember hearing the title phrase a long time ago, in an ad for some sort of annuity company advertising a retirement savings plan. No, I don’t remember which one. However, I do remember the first time I heard it, I though well, why don’t you just write a novel, then? Over the intervening years,…
Got any book recommendations?