I was asked a couple of days ago, "Why do you write?" I have developed a standard answer over the past year. But, I have decided that standard answer has been more on a surface response than going deep. I have told others on several occasions in recent months to find...
Book Review 95: The Successful Author Mindset by Joanna Penn
Digital Publishing has spawned the rise of the indie author movement over the past several years. As a result, there is a lot of books these days about how to become a successful indie author and how to make a living with your writing. However, there are only a few...
Wisdom of Kammbia 4.2: Why Do I Write?
It has been awhile since I wrote a blog post. However, I was asked recently by a close friend a question. I have thought about their question for several days and decided to write a blog post. Here's the question: Why Do I Write? Why I Write for 3 reasons: 1) I want...
Book Review 70: For Love or Money by Susan Kaye Quinn
"Writing challenges me to discover who I am. Publishing challenges me to remember it." "You have to work like crazy, be smart, somehow invest every particle of emotion into the book itself, but then fling it out in the world and be ruthlessly pragmatic about how to...
Quotes 83
“I’d like people to enjoy reading them. A readable novel is a gift to humanity. It provides an innocent occupation. Any novel takes people away from their troubles and the television set; it may even stir them to reflect about human life, characters, morals. So I...
Quotes 82
“A novel without a story must work very hard in other ways to be worth reading, and indeed to be read. Some of today’s antistory novels are too deliberately arcane. I think story is essential to the survival of the novel. A novel may be “difficult” but its story can...
Book Review 58: Discoverability by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Indie Publishing movement of the past half-dozen years has changed the course of the publishing industry. Publishing books have become a lot easier thanks to eBooks, Amazon, and other Print-on-Demand (POD) publishers. Would-be-novelists (like myself) that have...
Wisdom of Kammbia 3.30: The Importance of the Writer-Reader Relationship
I believe this quote should make writers realize the importance of the writer-reader relationship and that we don't disrespect that connection. "What disrespect we writers have for the people who read our work. Our readers don’t expect perfection every time we publish...
Wisdom of Kammbia 3.29: How Do I Write A Novel?
This is the best writing advice I've ever read how to write a novel: "So how do you write a novel? Simply do the best you can every day during the writing, finish the book, fix the mistakes a trusted first reader finds, and mail the thing or publish the thing...
Quotes 80
"Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction." {Guy Gavriel Kay}