Tag: #books

• Refilling Your Tank

  In everything that’s going on at the moment I know some of you are more scared than you’ve ever been before.   There are a million things going on outside our control. Fear eats a hole in our stomachs as we twitch aside window curtains and wonder if just one more visit to the store…

  E. J. Dawson

  April 20, 2020

  On Writing

  #books, #creativity, #creators, #inspiration, #lockdown, #mentalhealth, #writers, #writingcommunity, amwriting, writing

• Wolf at the Door

    I’m having a rant. Want to know why? Because people are being bullied. Being threatened. Being made to feel unwelcome and unwanted in the #WritingCommunity.   I wish this wasn’t the first time I’ve spoken about how I’ve seen or been guilted in the #WritingCommunity about what I do with my Twitter, Facebook and…

  E. J. Dawson

  January 31, 2020

  Social Media

  #authors, #blackmail, #book, #books, #bullied, #bullying, #community, #dreams, #ebook, #F4F, #followers, #indieauthors, #marketing, #Publishers, #reading, #selfpub, #SocialMedia, #Twitter, #writers, #writingcommunity, amwriting, indie, writing

• The Monster… WRITERS BLOCK!

  Welcome one and all to my blog!   For All Hallows Eve (look, if you haven’t figured out I’m Australian by now here is you’re cue), I wish to present to those on the cusp and preparing for the dreaded thirty days of mayhem, trauma, and soul crushing despair, faced during the course of Nanowrimo,…

  E. J. Dawson

  October 31, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #authors, #book, #books, #community, #creativity, #dream, #ebook, #inspiration, #nanowrimo, #Nanowrimo19, #novel, #series, #story, #support, #writingcommunity, #writingsprints, amwriting, rpg, storytelling, writing

• The Green Elephant

  I want to talk about the elephant in the room. The green one. The one that sits behind the screen and judges. Both their own self worth and what they have accomplished. A few months back someone sent me a screen shot a tweet that criticized authors for talking about writing many words in short…

  E. J. Dawson

  October 11, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #authors, #books, #creativity, #inspiration, #wordcount, #writers, #writingcommunity, #writingsprints, writing

• An Honest Review

  There is a battle on Twitter at the moment.   I first witnessed it from several readers who were attacked by Indie authors for leaving anything but a five-star review. Authors… attacking readers.   What kind of a fucked-up person do you have to be to attack your own consumers? One reader had given four…

  E. J. Dawson

  June 23, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #amreading, #authors, #books, #honesty, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #indiebooks, #read, #readers, #reviews, #selfpub, #selfpublished, #selfpublishing, #writingcommunity, indie, writerslife, writing

• Beyond Beginners Marketing

  I was recently speaking to a friend about what else she could do beyond the basics of getting her marketing plan ready, and what it was to actually have one. There were things I knew, information I’d learned over the years that I’d kept to myself. Another Twitter user asked for some pointers, completely separate,…

  E. J. Dawson

  June 16, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #authors, #book, #books, #community, #ebook, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #marketing, #reviews, #success, #writingcommunity, indie, writerslife, writing

• The Big Bad Betareader

      It’s scary, I get it. You’re asking someone who is potentially a stranger to put their grubby paws all over your creation. To dirty it’s walls with comments on the plot. Smear mud on character development. Wee on info dumps. Put a massive turd in that unforeseen plot hole. And the way you…

  E. J. Dawson

  March 28, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #authors, #betareaders, #betareading, #books, #novel, #support, #writingcommunity, #writingtips, amwriting, writing

• The Elusive Review…

      You may as well admit it.   When it comes to wanting a review authors can be like Voldemort, stalking through the Forbidden Forest looking for the elusive unicorn, the magic number of fifty reviews to start spiking on Amazon’s algorithms. Its hard to get them, and there are a host of reasons…

  E. J. Dawson

  March 2, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #bookreviews, #books, #indieauthor, #marketing, #reviewing, #reviews, #selfpublished, #selfpublishing, #writingcommunity, writing

• 1 Book in 25 Days

  I wrote a book in 25 days. Lets cut straight to the facts as they are; I don’t have kids I live in a rural area I have a short commute I worked fucking hard at it   I love the book, I think it’s a great stand alone story and for me that’s a…

  E. J. Dawson

  February 22, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #amwritinghorror, #authors, #book, #books, #creativity, #indieauthor, #inspiration, #novel, #wordcount, #writers, #writingcommunity, #writingtips, amwriting, writing

• Write the Darkness Within

  “I don’t know how you did it.”   The compliment came when I announced I’d completed my 2018 goal of writing six books. They didn’t know how I did it. Thinking back, neither do I.   I normally write a blog post at the end of the year about my accomplishments and hopes for New…

  E. J. Dawson

  January 1, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #authors, #book, #books, #creativity, #dream, #dreams, #ebook, #imagination, #inspiration, #novel, #story, #success, #wordcount, #wordgoals, #writingcommunity, amwriting, writing