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Published in A Life of Words

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How to Scare Kids: 13 Rules for Writing Middle-Grade Horror Fiction

How do books by R. L. Stine such as the Goosebumps series diverge from those written by Stephen King — if both authors scare their audiences? — If you are just curious about how horror works for children, or if you are an aspiring author thinking about writing children literature, or even if you just love the Goosebumps series, perhaps you would like to read the 13 rules that follow. 13 because, well, it is a scary…

Childrens Books

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How to Scare Kids: 13 Rules for Writing Middle-Grade Horror Fiction
How to Scare Kids: 13 Rules for Writing Middle-Grade Horror Fiction
Childrens Books

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Published in A Life of Words

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How Stephen King Wrote His First Best-Selling Novel

Hint: He wasn’t drinking a $10 Latte Macchiato at Starbucks. — Before I start, let me ask you something: What do you need to put your words down on paper? What are the conditions you need to fulfill before you can say, “All right, it’s time to write”? Perhaps you can only write on a specific app like Scrivener, Microsoft Word…

Writing

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How Stephen King Wrote His First Best-Selling Novel
How Stephen King Wrote His First Best-Selling Novel
Writing

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Dec 29, 2021

Timeless

(Warning: contains strong language and depictions of physical violence.) The show starts when time stops. The children stare at my purple costume, frozen in their places as I walk around. I’m the only one moving in the entire birthday party; everything and everyone else is as static as a picture…

Superheroes

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Timeless
Timeless
Superheroes

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Published in A Life of Words

·Aug 25, 2020

How I Got Curated — and How You Can Do It Too

Hint: I wrote about something I do know. — While some fellow Medium bloggers claim to maintain a curation rate – the rate of one’s posts that get distributed in topics – of around 75%, it is a different story for many of us. None of my first twenty, thirty stories got curated. Not distributed in topics was the…

Curation

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How I Got Curated — and How You Can Do It Too
How I Got Curated — and How You Can Do It Too
Curation

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Published in A Life of Words

·Aug 22, 2020

How I Read 69 Books in 2019 without Changing My Routine

And how you can do it too. — Even though we are (finally) reaching the end of the catastrophic year that is 2020, there is something I want to tell you about 2019. Yes, 2019, or 1 b.C. (before Corona). I have never read so many books in a year as I did in 2019. I fell one…

Reading

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How I Read 69 Books in 2019 without Changing My Routine
How I Read 69 Books in 2019 without Changing My Routine
Reading

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Aug 22, 2020

Join The Indie Writer

Read this if you want to contribute to the publication. — So you want to write for The Indie Writer. That’s great — and it would be a pleasure to have you as a contributor. Please read the following Q & A to see whether you are a good fit: Who can contribute to The Indie Writer? Anyone with a background…

Indie

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Join The Indie Writer
Join The Indie Writer
Indie

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Aug 21, 2020

This Is Why You Should Never Write Drunk

No, not even Hemingway did it. — I just hate it that creative writing — just like other forms of expression — is often misunderstood as the stuff of troubled geniuses. You have probably come came across people who had this mindset. People who regard themselves as the crème de la crème of artistic sentimentalism, affirming that…

Addiction

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This Is Why You Should Never Write Drunk
This Is Why You Should Never Write Drunk
Addiction

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Published in The Book Mechanic

·Aug 3, 2020

How to Self-Publish a Book That Won’t Sell

Or: How to Launch a Book Like an Amateur in 5 Unprofessional Steps — I have been there. I dreamed of being one of those many indie authors who “made it” — people who can boast about their hundreds of fans, their five-figure paychecks, and the wide recognition of their work. In my first attempt, however, I did exactly what they don’t do. I…

Self Publishing

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How to Self-Publish a Book That Won’t Sell
How to Self-Publish a Book That Won’t Sell
Self Publishing

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Published in The Book Mechanic

·May 11, 2020

How to Create Writing Sessions Out of Thin Air

Even if you don’t have time — and we both know you have. — I don’t think lack of time exists. Time is our most abundant and most precious resource. We have a lot of it — enough to waste it with pointless activities that bring no positive outcome. Those hours scrolling down our feeds on Instagram and Twitter, for instance. But time management…

Writing

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How to Create Writing Sessions Out of Thin Air
How to Create Writing Sessions Out of Thin Air
Writing

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Published in Writers Guild

·May 11, 2020

The Best Quotes After 7 Years Reading on Kindle

After so many books read in this period, these are the words that touched me the most. — When I first bought a Kindle, one of its functions promptly caught my attention. It is pretty mainstream nowadays, but it was groundbreaking for a person used to old-school reading. It was highlighting. Yes — the same thing we do here on Medium. You read a passage that for some…

Writing

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The Best Quotes After 7 Years Reading on Kindle
The Best Quotes After 7 Years Reading on Kindle
Writing

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Morton Newberry

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