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with Drake The Duck Muse
Multi-Genre Author ~ Editor ~ Book Designer ~ Writing Coach
The Blog Thingy
Where Emotion and Information are Dispensed Inconsistently... Sometimes
You'll find some interesting stuff here...
a few Op Eds, some Writing Craft Information, Book Reviews, and More. Poke around the categories and see what ruffles your feathers... in a good way!
Writing In The Wild: The John Ball Zoo
August 2023 Writing Field Trips, as I've eluded to in past posts, are something I truly enjoy. I spend an entire day exploring my...
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Writing Field Trip: DIA 2023
October 2023 If you're a writer, you've experienced it… writer’s block. That creative rut you get into and can’t seem to find a way to...
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How Goal Planning Works For Me
December 2024 My list of writing goals this year is long and lofty. I’m always ambitious when setting goals for the new year because for...
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Sending ARCs to Kindle Devices
ARC readers are tremendously valuable to the Indie Author. Through the eyes of the objective reader, we find supportive accountability...
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So Many Stories and My Gemini Brain
December 2021 Three times, in as many days, I’ve seen posts in various groups on Facebook asking whether writers work on multiple...
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Book Reviews, Indie Authors, and Bilateral Breathing
February 2022 The impact of a book review cannot be overstated. As Indie Authors, we all know this. We live it and breathe it… But do...
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The Bicycle Seat
June 2022 I read on one of the many writing group forums today, a novice author expressing their gratitude for someone pointing them in...
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Five Ways To Build Reciprocity Into Your Indie Author Marketing Plan
Since first becoming an Indie Author in 2010, I’ve focused on not only building my writing career, but I’ve also worked to share the...
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Ratings For Books? Yes!
Occasionally, I’m asked if books have a rating system, like films. We all know that reader audiences are defied mostly by age group, but...
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What's Your Genre?
The writing world has changed a lot over the decades. We began simply enough… Fiction or Non-fiction? Real or Make Believe. Then, as...
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The Writing Research Carousel
July 2023 Every writer I’ve ever met is specifically talented. Each has a storytelling gift they generously share with readers....
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Word Counts Are Only Half The Story
Dateline: January 14, 2025… At last night’s virtual writing session with Creative Slingers of Ink , Drake and I wrote a total of 499...
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Copyright & Public Domain
Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States to the authors of "original works of authorship," including...
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No Holes Without Flashlights
The life of an author is a great deal of fun. Long nights spent talking with your imaginary friends, intense research rabbit holes,...
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When It Comes To Contracts, Don't Be A Racoon!
While I was doing my usual scrolling through posts on Facebook last night, I saw that an author posted an important question in one of...
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