Writing and Creating Books

William Faulkner: Don’t Be a Writer

Don’t be a writer. Be writing. — William Faulkner And that means you! Just write. Don’t worry about the trappings. Don’t worry about the techniques. Don’t worry about the tools you use. Just write. Don’t worry about spelling. Don’t worry about grammar. Don’t worry about style. Just write. You are very much a writer if you just write. […]

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Book Writing GIFs: Your Book Is Finally Published

This is the fourth section of a multi-part blog post on the book publishing process as seen through a series of 8 GIFs. You’re finished with your part of the book. It’s been a year since you finished. And now you wait . . . And wait . . . You get your book cover […]

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Book Writing GIFs: How to Find a Publisher for Your Book

This is the third section of a multi-part blog post on the book publishing process as seen through a series of 17 GIFs. You now have an agent. What’s next? Now it’s time to submit to publishers. So you’re back to making submissions, which makes you do a Conan: Then the editors start saying no […]

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Book Writing GIFs: Finding a Literary Agent

This is the second section of a multi-part blog post on the book publishing process as seen through a series of 14 GIFs. You have finished a novel. Only then do you find out that you have to find a literary agent. What the heck? So you write your query letter. And you obsess over […]