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Wacky Writing Idea #2: Sci-Fi Universe Where All The Alien Races Just Recently Entered Space

September 29, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to […]

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Wacky Writing Idea #1: Authoritarian Hogwarts

September 27, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to […]

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How To Take Advice When Starting As A Writer

September 23, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Being the type of person I am, I’ve read a number of books, articles, and blogs with writing advice. I’ve gone to writing meetups, joined appropriate online communities, and sought out interactions with other writers. There’s an avalanche of advice for writers, with great enthusiasm from both the people asking the questions and offering the […]

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Creators Promoting Their Work

May 17, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

It’s challenging for creators to try to find an audience for their work. All advice for doing this amounts to: 1) find where people who like your sort of thing online are and 2) tell them about your stuff. When a creator first attempts to execute this, they find these people INCREDIBLY, and surprisingly, hostile. […]

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The Complicated Relationship Between Creators and Consumers

April 9, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

There was recently a release of outraged articles when George R. R. Martin called some of his own fans “internet assholes”. Further back, there were angry trekkies when William Shatner announced that he would no longer sign autographs outside of paid convention signings. During his baseball career, Barry Bonds was famously hostile to his fans. […]

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Monetizing Communities

March 26, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

I’ve been a member of online communities since before most people had heard of the internet. Before internet access had reached the masses, bulletin board systems (BBSes) allowed computers to connect, one-on-one, and form local, small versions of what we’re all now apart of. One element of this has been the evolution of online communities, […]

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BookFunnel, StoryOrigin, Prolific Works, and BookSprout

March 23, 2021 by John Champaign 12 Comments

When people first consider writing, they believe that writing is the hard part. Then, once they have a written draft, they assume editing and getting it ready for release is the hard part. Once they’ve published, they find that getting people to consider reading what they’ve created is actually the hard part. A number of […]

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Website Visitors

March 13, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

When you’re getting started with something, having a metric to measure your progress is important. At the lowest possible level, just your time devoted to the activity can work, but it’s better if you can manage a more sophisticated measurement than that. I’ve been trying to write commercially, and the ultimate measurement for that is […]

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Merchant Magician Released

February 14, 2021 by John Champaign 1 Comment

I’ve released an urban fantasy novella. This feels like it is, in many ways, my debut book. With Sunday Game Sessions I joined together all the web serial posts I’d made and put them on Amazon, but with this book I worked through the text with an editor, had proof reading done repeatedly, adjusted the […]

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Beta Readers

February 10, 2021 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

I recently published what I consider my debut novella, “Merchant Magician”. As part of the process, I had a number of beta readers provide feedback on it. Overall, it was mixed experience. What is a Beta Reader? A beta reader is someone who reads your about-to-be-published work and gives you feedback from a reader’s perspective. […]

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