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Measuring Success by Gabriela Pereira and the DIYMFA Team
Excerpt below:
What is Creative Success?
Measuring success as a writer (or as any artist) is a challenge because there’s no cut-and-dry scale for creative output. Yes, you can measure your creative success in word count, completed drafts or number of publications, but a lot of creative progress is too subjective to be measured in such quantitative terms. Measuring Success.
On Publishing
Ether for Authors: Booking the Future by Porter Anderson.
How to Get Started Selling Fiction in 2013 by Dean Wesley Smith (New World of Publishing).
On Aspects of Publishing
The Why, What, Who and How of Metadata: 13 Tips for Publishers by Renee Register.
The Other Metadata Identifier You Need to Know by Laura Dawson.
How You Can Sell More Books at Christmas by Lindsay Buroker.
How to Storyboard a Book for Marketing Purposes by Bob Mayer.
5 Principles for Surviving Your First Year of Indie Epublishing by Kiru Taye.
Ghosts of Writers Future by Kristine Rusch. Estate planning for writers – Highly Recommended!
On Social Media
#Hashtags Galore on Writer Wednesday with Stacy Green. Stacy provides a group of excellent tools in this post that you’ll want to peruse and use.
How Can We Brag Without It KILLING Our On-Line Credibility by Kristen Lamb.
Goodreads Ad Campaigns…Should You Take the Plunge? by Monica Davis.
A Community Means Getting a Response by Joel Friedlander.
On Blogging/Technology
The Best Reason to Blog – Part Three by Jami Gold.
Building a Website Using WordPress by Ansha Kotyk.
Creating Blog Posts & Promo Materials With Piktochart by Laura Pepper Wu.
Writerly Uses for Excel – The Power of Form and Function by Jenny Hansen.
On Writing Craft
The Point of a Scene: Thinking in Concepts by Jami Gold. Top Read! Or, maybe I should call the next one, also by Jami, the Top Read – you decide: Actions & Reactions: The End-All-Be-All of Storytelling.
You’ve Finished NaNoWriMo: Now What? by Janice Hardy. Great advice!
Writing A Book: What Happens After the First Draft? by Joanna Penn.
Writing Characters that Evoke Reader Compassion by Geoff Wyss for Glimmer Train.
Character Development: Make Them Angry by Ava Jae.
Plot Fixer: Plots that Rely on Coincidence and Contrivance by Kara Lennox.
The Final Battle: Elements of Act Three by Alexandra Sokoloff.
What’s the Difference Between Conflict and Tension? by K.M. Weiland.
The Secret to a Successful Concept by Larry Brooks.
“Couponing” For Authors by J.L. Greger. Awesome concept!
On the Writer’s Life
Writing Rewards by Gabriela Pereira. Excellent Post!
Trust In Your Ability to Tell a Story by Elizabeth S. Craig.
How to Write When You Don’t Want To by Ava Jae.
Writing Research: A Pain or a Gain? by Jami Gold.
How to Survive a Critique by Marcy Kennedy.
What Are You Missing Out On? by Lisa Hall-Wilson.
An Exercise in Shutting Up the Inner Critic by Lyn Midnight.
From Debut to Multi-Published: What I’ve Learned in my 1st Year as a Published Author by Roni Loren.
Peaceful Journeys.
Gene Lempp ~ Writer 
I can see why you featured DIYMFA’s post – all creatives need that reminder – we are enough and we have to keep moving forward to the end of the project’s road and then, begin again. Joanna Penn’s and J.L. Greger’s posts were awesome, too! The couponing idea was very creative and sent the message home for me!
There are 13 others that I HAVE to read right now! Thanks for sharing all these great posts, Gene! I guess I’ll ask Hubs to cook dinner tonight so I can finish working and reading!
What are you doing this weekend? Have a great one, my friend!
Thanks Gene – for your including Writers in the Storm posts, and for choosing so many wonderful tidbits from all over – hours of reading here!
Great collection, as usual! Thanks for the link love, much appreciated 🙂
One of your best link collections ever. DIYMFA’s post about measuring success really deserved being featured. It’s so easy to undervalue our achievements. Or think that we have done more than we really did without realistic measurements. What you don’t measure, you can’t manage.
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