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You Can Be An Author

Posted on April 20, 2025 by Franklyn Helfinstine
We all have an area which we have more experience and knowledge than the person next to us.What many don't realize is that there's frequently a hungry market out there ready and willing to cover the information we have to offer.Yes, it takes an enormous amount of effort to find a publication to end and printing, but it's well worth it.Some things I've learned through the experience:- Start small.Don't try to handle a 400-page work for your first book...

Self-examination vs Self-indulgence

Posted on August 10, 2024 by Franklyn Helfinstine
Self-examination is brutally honest.Self-indulgence is brutally maudlin.Writing requires the writer to be harshly candid about motive, intent, and goal, which, needless to say, mean self-examination.However, too little sincerity becomes self-indulgence, that is self-pitying.Writers got to know why they're writing, their motive.Could it be for the money, acclaim, or self-satisfaction? Could it be to see, entertain, or convince the reader? Could it be to satisfy a need to titillate, deceive, or subvert the reader? The writer should be sincere when she or he considers the desire...

Talent or Toil

Posted on July 9, 2023 by Franklyn Helfinstine
As in every endeavors, toil is essential to succeed and much more so on paper.Work or its habit may be the mother of talent.A writer must labor over his craft until it becomes strength, and the only path the writer can form this efficacy is by working at it, sitting at one's desk or computer and writing.Like any work, this involves the expenditure of time--time spent writing, time spent thinking, time spent practicing the craft of writing, and time spent deliberating in what to create and how exactly to write it...