MARYLEE MACDONALD Hello Reader, I want to let you in on a secret that took me years to accept: your first draft is not supposed to be good. I'm serious. The goal of a first draft is not to produce publishable prose. The goal is to get the story out of your head and onto the page. That's it. Everything else comes later. I used to write a sentence, hate it, delete it, and rewrite it. I did this for hours. I produced almost nothing. A wise writing teacher finally told me: "Marylee, you can't...
9 days ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, How will readers know your book exists if you don't have some way to let them know when it comes out? You absolutely need to think about what comes AFTER you finish writing. Apart from uploading book files to Amazon, every writer needs a website presence. A website presence doesn't mean a blog. There are simpler and cheaper options, such as doing an interview on somebody else's website. This Week's Ten Questions Feature This week I'm featuring an interview with Lorraine Dusky....
about 3 years ago • 1 min read
Hello Reader, I had such a terrific response to my last email that I had a great idea. I thought it would be cool to create a page on my website where you could download many of my popular tips, cheat sheets, and pdfs. Here's the page. Feel free to download everything at one time, or just come back when you need specific help. Here's the page--> https://wp.me/P7nsfn-5L You may have written the best book in the world, but if readers don't know about it, you're sunk. Here are examples of two...
just now • 2 min read
