bradshreff
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What the Future Means to Writers – or – Some Advice to A Friend
A friend of mine said to me on twitter today, “Brad, kind of struggling lately with the idea of being a writer, given so few people read these days. Any recommendations?” It was an innocuous enough question, and he was probably just looking for me to say “Keep at it!” or “You’re great!” or some…
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How to Setup Automatic Redundant Free Backup
So here’s the step-by-step that I promised a few days ago. For this, I will be assuming you use Scrivener, but as I said before, this would be possible with any program that has an automatic backup option. Downloads Install both of these programs on your computer. Default settings on both are fine. Google Drive: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive (you’ll…
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For Writers: How to Get Automatic Free Redundant File Backup
Today, I was clearing out some old Scrivener backup files and wasn’t paying as much attention as I should have been. Somehow, deleting one of the backup archives broke my current Scrivener project and dumped me back to where I was on my WIP two months ago, effectively losing 5 full chapters (and a ton…
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Time Travel – Or – How to Make a Blog Post with Next to no Effort
So I really don’t know what the long term purpose of this blog will be, but for today I hope to make some people laugh. I was digging around my stuff and stumbled across this post that I wrote a few years ago and laughed at it, so I thought I’d share it with all…
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Submitting to Agents – Or Querying: The 10th Circle
As I said previously, I have begun the Querying Process, submitting my query and such to literary agents in the hope of getting representation for my work. I completely blame the misery and pain I have been experiencing non-stop for the last week on my friend and torturer Eileen Caines (check-out her blog here: neverwordless.wordpress.com). She…
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New and Used Blog
Recently, I started submitting some of my work to literary agents, and it is a long, tiring, stressful process that I will most likely delve deeper into in future blog posts. For the purposes of this post, suffice-it to say that it has made me feel a little down. I realized that part of why…
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10 Reasons You Should Do NaNoWriMo
As you all know, I’m a huge supporter of NaNoWriMo and The Office of Letters and Lights. They posted this on their blog today, and I love it, so I’m sharing. Here is the link to the original: http://blog.lettersandlight.org/post/32671611607/10-reasons-you-should-do-nanowrimo National Novel Writing Month is just around the bend! How around the bend? The sites are…
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askDavid.com Promotion
askDavid.com is a book promotion site that is GREAT for indie authors. I submitted my book to them a few weeks ago, and they posted it to their site today! They post it on their site and promote it for you a little. It is easy and free. Check out the link here: http://askdavid.com/reviews/book/fantasy/1653 If…