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More Thoughts About Seth Godin’s Blog – Part 3

10/04/2022 by Debbi

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I suppose my thoughts about Seth Godin’s blog posts amount to a kind of web series, don’t they? There’s a theme and a continuing series of posts, so … I guess. 🙂

Anyhow, here’s what I’ve got today.

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Lessons Learned from Seth Godin

08/10/2021 by Debbi

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Personally, I think one of the most interesting blogs today is Seth Godin’s. I read his blog daily, because 1) it’s easy to read, 2) he gets to the point (usually) without a lot of filler words, and 3) he has a lot of good suggestions to offer for anyone in almost any career.

If you haven’t read Seth’s blog, here are my take-aways from the last few blog posts I’ve read:

About “Not for Diana”

This story is ostensibly about the ability to sell a necklace that says “Diana” on it.

Imagine how many more you could sell, one man says, if it read “Not Diana”, because there are so many more of those!

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My Book Review of ‘The Eight Characters of Comedy’

03/24/2020 by Debbi

Hi, I have another book review today: The Eight Characters of Comedy.

Now, this book. The thing is, I think even though it’s geared towards acting, there’s a lot in here for writers. It is a guide to sitcom acting and writing. And that tells you how important it is to when you’re writing screenplays to think about the characters.

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My (Slightly Surreal) Self-Publishing Story

03/03/2020 by Debbi

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The following is something I wrote about self-publishing back in 2009 or 2010. Somewhere in there. I’ve had to update the material to reflect current publishing realities. But the point is that you can do this! It’s not always easy and/or fun, but you can! Anyway, here’s what I had to say:

When I first ventured into fiction writing, conventional wisdom was to never self-publish one’s work. This amounted to nothing less than professional suicide. Writers who self-published were looked down upon as poor, pathetic, desperate souls who didn’t have the talent or persistence to impress agents and/or publishers (especially the ones in New York, aka, “real ones”).

I followed this advice and ended up signing a contract for a three-book mystery series with a small press, which went under nine months later. My debut novel went out of print. So much for that. But I kept writing and querying agents and small presses, anyway. Over the years, I revised one novel, wrote a sequel and completed two standalone novels. Meanwhile, I still had this out-of-print novel just sitting and burning a hole in my computer. Finally, I took matters into my own hands. I decided I’d flout conventional wisdom and self-publish the book.

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Meet Debbi

Welcome to my writers' corner of the Internet. I'm a novelist, who also writes short stories and screenplays. I hope to share the benefit of my experiences as an indie author with dystonia since 2009. I also post a lot of book reviews, because I love to read and learn new things. I hope to share that knowledge with you.

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