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One Little Story Adjustment
For some time now, I’ve been having difficulty getting my first draft of the 2nd King Leary novel, “The Meaning of Death,” off the ground. First, there was the car accident of February 2nd, which...
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Writing Trick I’ve learned along the way
Every writer has tricks in their trick bag that they’ve picked up here or there. Sometimes we don’t even know where we gleaned these little techniques. Here is one of my favorite writing tricks:...
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Keyword Optimization
Keyword Optimization Tips For Bloggers If you’re blogging then you will almost certainly have heard about keyword optimization. There are many ways to get traffic to your blog, but the best free method...
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Writing for a Living
This site, this blog, is not just about me… Chris Jay Becker. It’s about all of you, too: my fellow freelance writers, indie authors, internet marketers, dedicated bloggers, self-publishers, SEO...
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WRITE DRUNK EDIT SOBER – A writer’s call-to-action
THE GREATEST WRITING MAXIM THAT HEMINGWAY NEVER SAID “Write drunk, edit sober,” it’s an often-quoted bit of advise generally attributed to Ernest Hemingway. This pithy quote is all over the internet....
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Hollywood
As I write this post, I’m sitting by myself in a corner room in the ReTan Hotel on Whitley Ave, just a few doors down from the seven-nights-a-week party that is Hollywood Boulevard. I started this...
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Elmore Leonard
Today we learned that Elmore Leonard died. He was universally lauded as perhaps the finest American Crime Writer alive. The world is a little sadder now that there will, soon at least, be no more new...
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WRITE DRUNK, EDIT SOBER — Part 2
“EDIT SOBER,” WAY MORE FUN THAN IT SOUNDS Alright now, people. This here’s where the rubber meets the road. You’ve already hammered away at your latest masterpiece, AKA,”The latest P.O.S.” You wrote it...
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Communal Workspace Review: Ignited Spaces–Hollywood
This might be a geeky thing to admit, but I was watching the pilot for the Amazon Prime sitcom “Betas” which opens at a communal office somewhere in San Francisco. This caught my imagination, so I...
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Back to the Heartland
1 August 2014– After exactly one year of living in my native Los Angeles, which to me also meant a return to Hollywood, I have returned to my adopted hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to regroup, work,...
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