Self-Publishers: Until You Know How To Market Your Books, Don't Pay For A Book Marketing Service

Self-Publishers: Until You Know How To Market Your Books, Don't Pay For A Book Marketing Service

What to do with feedback

So you are ready, done with waiting, some friends, other writers and or an editor read your draft what to do after you get their feedback.

Check out the options in this article by FEEDBACK "Rewriting: What Is it And How Do You Go About It?"

What Voters Need to Know

What Voters Need to Know

The Bayeux Tapestry facsimile | The home of beautiful books

Interested in freelance work?

Here is a free eBook of those interested in freelance writing.The Freelance Writer's Success Formula is a free download and has valuable information and an easy simple format. 

Steven James, on story telling

Here is the YouTube on Steven James on telling stories and writing as published on PNWA.

 http://www.authormagazine.org/interviews/James_Interview_2016_09.html?utm_source=Author+Magazine+October+3rd%2C+2016&utm_campaign=Author+Magazine+April+4%2C+2016&utm_medium=email

Lin-Manuel Miranda Monologue - SNL

October 2016 Newsletter

Hi Friends,

So far October weather is a relief from the heat of summer. I feel more energy and ready to enjoy the holidays. Three days ago it rained and yesterday started the painting of the outside of our house, I am very excited. 

I hope fall is also a good time for you. So far we plan to dress up for Halloween and go to a family party. Some have already started Christmas shopping but in our family, we have simplified the holiday giving and made it more of a fun thing. We host Thanksgiving, and I like that because it’s the first holiday of the season. I will share more on Thanksgiving and Christmas in my November and December newsletter.

About my writing, I am doing editing from notes by a professional writer/editor. In the past I felt that I was using the "I need more editing" to delay rejection but since I read How To Become Immune To Rejection, "a riveting and eye-opening TEDx Talk" article posted on Happily Daily, by Jia Jiang I decided to start my road of "deliberate rejections." Because of that, my editing has taken on a new "feeling"; not of fear but of Dare To Be A Great Writer as in the title of the late Leonard Bishop's book, who I still consider to be my mentor.

 

I wish you a good October.

Much Love,

Marta

Sacramento County Hosts Job Fair and Career Expo

Sacramento County Hosts Job Fair and Career Expo

How To Use HTML To Format KDP Kindle Book Descriptions

How To Use HTML To Format KDP Kindle Book Descriptions

How to Design Your Novel For Film Adaptation | WritersDigest.com

How to Design Your Novel For Film Adaptation | WritersDigest.com

Over 50 and want to write for the screen?

Check out the free webinar from ScreenwritingU.com and then decide. There also are several free screenwriting YouTubes on youtube. My motto is "never stop growing, up that is." 

https://screenwritingu.clickfunnels.com/over50?inf_contact_key=a90aa803ef4edabbe4b2fd4d8e8109c3ef8b4d8783af49defe68dc4aa146375c

Eye surgery

Hi everyone, I am doing minimal media for the next few day or so. Yesterday I had surgery on my left eye, this morning my doctor  said I'm recuperating very well. 

Dream of becoming a reporter?

Carriers in journalism, part-time or full-time, abound. At POYNTER you can learn at your own pace and it's not expensive. Check it out! Poynter.org
http://www.poynter.org 

From paper to screen

Do you think your book would be a great movie? You will never know until you try. 

On The Aspiring Screenwriter’s Guide to Page One are some interesting guidelines. 

https://screencraft.org/2016/05/23/aspiring-screenwriters-guide-page-one/

Marta C. Weeks, Author: About VIRGINS

Marta C. Weeks, Author: About VIRGINS: VIRGINS,  book one of the Sylph series is approximately 45 thousand words. Pitch: "The Archangel becomes AYEK...

Learn Ancient Greek: 1_Introduction to learning Ancient Greek

A freebie that keeps on giving...

Want your characters to grab readers? Here is a freebie you can get download into most of your devices. Free downloads of Crafting Unforgettable Characters   http://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/confirmed/

Freebies I share with you

I love to share information that can help all, not just writers, live a good life and prosper. Here is one for writers:
The Freelance Writer's Battle by Ian Chandler

Do you read when writing?

This article: "How does what you read affect your writing, " by Laura Moss, quotes Stephen King, "If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that," memoir, "On Writing." 

When writing new work I don't read because the story comes in a stream from my subconscious and all my senses are involved. Virgins came to me over several months and after overcoming weeks of fear and terror I would get up at night and write. After I sense that my subconscious is tapped or I have completed initial writing I read, research and read to learn about the visions or apparitions that have come to me.

With Virgins I had to do months of research and reading after the initial months of visions, apparitions and in fear of what I was seeing, feeling: all my senses on alert and involved. I even saw a therapist, called my best friend repeatedly, went overnight where my husband was staying when working out of town, sought help from my priest and got psychic readings, very scary readings, thought I was going nuts. Stuff I couldn't explain kept happening around me. My writing became so compulsive I wrote until the wee hours but was able to function during the day as if pumped up by adrenaline.

In the months and years that followed, I read all I could find online about the places, apparitions, ideas and to look and verify what seemed facts and most of them to my dread, where facts even the times before I was even born in this life. I started attending a writing group that went on for 5 years.

I wrote other stuff after awhile but the story of the Sylph kept me engrossed. Two years ago my husband and I went to Europe, of the two weeks we spent several days in Lalin Spain, a city near the Pontevedra Coast, where a lot of the book takes place. The experience felt supernatural to both of us.

Also, writing to me is a true labor of love, I have to edit and have others edit for me a lot because I was dyslexic and in my days as a youth that was not diagnosed correctly. English is not my birth language. I came to the U. S. when I was about nine, the first time. Also in college and in my occupation I had to read and write a lot. Like on this article, I check it myself with spell check and Grammarly and pass it by my husband to ensure it's not riddled with errors.