Category: Blog
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Social Media for the Anti-Social Man
Let’s face it: I have a love-hate relationship with social media. While I have accounts in 4 different networks with only 3 that I can claim any kind of activity on. (If you count Reddit, I have 5 accounts, but I still only am kindof-active on 3). Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram get the bulk of…
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Age of Opinion
If you are after truth and facts, you are living in the wrong time. This is the age of opinion. It’s the time of fake news, toxic tribalism, and the idea that truth is more determined by the team you belong to than well… truth. I’ve been thinking a lot on this topic, beyond the…
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Quantity or Quality?
This has been an age-old question: is quantity more important that quality or vice versa? Two things particularly have brought this question back into my sights. The first, the fact that I have 5 projects that I have in the waiting for revision with a 6th closing in. The second, was Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s latest…
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Being Indie
There are a host of reasons as a writer to pursue traditional publishing or indie publishing (aka self-publishing). Each lists a number of benefits; each lists a number of problems. For me, before I had dove into the task of drafting query letters for my novel, The Good Teacher, I learned of the idea of…
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Free Fiction Fridays!
I like alliteration. And I feel like experimenting. And I want to give myself more to do rather than constantly dialing back when I stumble. I want reasons to keep pushing forward, to work through my obstacles. At one time, I wanted to do this on a weekly basis. I am going to try to…
Jeremy C Kester 