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Sales: How Can You Sell More Books When You’re Terrified of Selling?

Kristen Lamb April 5, 2021 0 comment

Sales can be one of the most terrifying words in the English language. If one happens to be a creative professional, let’s just multiply that fear level by ten…or a thousand. In fact, many writers spent decades longing to sign with legacy publishers for the sole reason that they believed a major publisher would tend […]

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Commitment Matters: The Art of Embracing ‘The SUCK’

Kristen Lamb March 11, 2021 0 comment

Commitment is a rare quality. Always has been and always will be. One main reason? Commitment, though simple, is far from easy. It will test us mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Often, it’s hard to see the benefits and so we rationalize quitting. Today, I’d like to parse this concept. Commitment is one of those […]

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‘The Silence’ Movie: How to Botch Storytelling in Every Way Imaginable

Kristen Lamb March 2, 2021 0 comment

Nope. I am telling EVERYONE. The Silence, for those who don’t know, is an Amazon Original movie. I guess ‘original’ is one descriptor, though I can think of a lot more accurate ones. ‘Rage-inducing,’ ‘insult to horror movies,’ ‘bad knock-off,’ and ‘intellectually insulting’ are a few that immediately come to mind. First of all, for […]

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Tough Choices: The Professional Writer’s Daily Grind

Kristen Lamb February 23, 2021 0 comment

Tough choices are the beating heart of anything remarkable. From being an excellent parent, to getting (then remaining fit) to being a professional writer, every day is a forked path. One road is usually easier, and a lot more fun. The other? Hard work, sacrifice, tough choices, and more hard work. You guys have NO […]

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Amazing Grace: What Do We Do When We’re Our Own Worst Critic?

Kristen Lamb December 21, 2020 0 comment

Grace is one of those things I am pretty good at giving. Receiving? Not so much. I’ve really missed blogging, and a lot has been going on at home. Translation? My brain vapor-locked when I tried to come up with a blog topic. Hopelessly stymied, I did something dangerous… I asked some fellow writers for […]

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EVIL: Our Love-Hate Relationship With Mischief, Mayhem & Destruction

Kristen Lamb November 13, 2020 0 comment

Evil fascinates us, and has since the dawn of human consciousness. I continually emphasize that humans are story creatures, which is good news for writers, since we’re in the story business. Though not all stories face off evil directly, all stories must include conflict to be considered a story. Conflict isn’t, per se, evil, but […]

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Transformation: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Kristen Lamb November 11, 2020 0 comment

Transformation is an integral part all great stories. The trick, however, is to leave a trail of breadcrumbs to show how a character has either progressed or regressed. Few things can be more disappointing than reading a story where SUDDENLY, POOF! The MC has some grand epiphany at the end how they really needed to […]

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Self-Discipline: Can’t Someone Else Just Do This FOR Us?

Kristen Lamb November 9, 2020 0 comment

Self-discipline usually is one of those terms most people use in January when hastily scribbling out New Year’s Resolutions. Of course, that was before 2020 came along and tore a hole in the space-time continuum. Every day is now Monduesday. Ketchup is a vegetable and the past seven months have been like the IRS, TSA, […]

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Holding Out for a Hero: Tips for Building a Protagonist Readers Will LOVE

Kristen Lamb November 7, 2020 0 comment

Humans are a story people, meaning we all share one thing in common—we LOVE a great hero. Yet, crafting a hero isn’t as simple as one might think. In fact, new writers generally serve up a ‘hero’ too soon. They fail to understand that the title—HERO—is something that must be earned. In fact, the harder […]

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Story Structure: Why Some Stories Fall Apart & Fail to Hook Readers

Kristen Lamb October 30, 2020 0 comment

Story structure is a HUGE deal in all stories. The last couple of posts, I’ve mentioned memoirs and how they can utilize a variety of structures. This said, there are so many variegations for the memoir, that I just can’t do them all justice here. Since I am at least sharp enough to know when […]

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