Tag: independent publishing
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An Experiment
I want to try an experiment. Recently (mid 2021), Amazon announced the beginning of “Kindle Vella”, a new avenue of publishing where books or stories can be released in “episodes” — or basically chapter by chapter. Readers buy tokens and can spend these tokens to purchase episodes of their favorite stories. Now I am not…
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When?
At what point does one give up? It’s a reasonable question with an answer that almost never is certain. “It depends” seems to be the most reasonable reply. Even still, that brings forward more questions — meaning that it isn’t an adequate answer. So how then does one answer the question? This question slides into…
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Writing the Excuses 3 – The Publishing Stuff
In keeping with the suggestion I made for myself in my post, “In The Numbers”, I am going to go over the 4 excuses that Dean Wesley Smith listed in his own article that inspired the aforementioned post. In this post, I’ll go over the 3rd excuse: “Excuse #3… What about all the publishing that…
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Getting Done
To be honest, I’ve been having a lot of trouble these last couple of years. Much of it is my own doing of course. Writing is challenging, and in so I certainly make many attempts to skirt away from the task, even as I am obsessed by it. Besides that it has led me to…
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Institutional
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with institutions. On one hand, they can be a collective force for a greater good, a group of people working towards something bigger and better than the individuals within. But they can also do evil. They can also be a force that stifles creativity and innovation if favor of…
Jeremy C Kester 