A Guide to Writing Selfishly

S25 Bonus – A Guide to Finishing Your Book

For more than three years I wrote more than 400 words every day. I mean, every calendar day. If, in those pre-portable days, I couldn’t get to a keyboard, I wrote hard the previous night and caught up the following day, and if it ever seemed that it was easy to do the average I upped the average. – Terry Pratchett

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S25E8 – A Guide to Building an Author Brand

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works. – Virginia Woolf

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S25E7 – A Guide to Publishing

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer J. Adler

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S25E6 – A Guide to Plotting the Series

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story. – Frank Herbert

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S25E3 – A Guide to Worldbuilding

In many ways, a book is, in itself, a tiny universe. Each page is like a newly formed galaxy, fashioned from a single, pulsing thought. A book travels for days, for years, sometimes for centuries to meet you at an exact point in time. – Lang Leav

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S25E2 – A Guide to Plotting a Hero’s Journey

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before. – Joseph Campbell

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