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Doing art in a public place is a muscle worth exercising. You'll get better at it and start to ignore the attention you attract.
This image is great.
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28. Do you practice "kill your darlings" in your work?
Yes, but I think there is a lot of confusion about what it means. It doesn't mean to kill your favorite characters. I mean sometimes it does but that's not the point. The point is you often need to remove a chapter or paragraph or sentence that you just love, but isn't making the story better.
The story is the only darling that counts. If you have any darling bits that weaken it, killll themmmmmm!
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I7. How do you promote your writing?
My book spent three weeks on Amazon's bestseller list!
What are you waiting for?
https://youtu.be/7KPAZjQ4Q_A
☝️ That's one way. I am making it up as I go along. I start with the assumption that a debut book probably doesn't make any money. I'm almost at the end of a fixed budget spent on a pre-release blog tour with @97b71756, Amazon ads, BookBub, and Booksy. I also offered the digital ARCs on NetGalley and ran a give away on GoodReads.
Sounds like a lot. But it's never enough. The next phase is entering it into any awards I can qualify for.
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But here's the thing I kept coming around to in my reading. There is no state that can spend the amount of energy correcting the minds of minor offenders as the party does in this book. The bureaucracy needed to spy on every human on the planet would require all the people on the planet involved in only that effort
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