February 2011 – The Write Side Up

Stuck Plot

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Mark Sennen

I was reading something on a forum the other day about getting plot ideas and about getting stuck in a rut and not being able to climb out. I don’t do muc...

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Spotlight on the software I write with

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Mark Sennen

I use Writemonkey as my word processor. The observant of you will have noticed the link to it in the menu column. I am thinking of setting up a page dedica...

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Sales Numbers Don’t Equal Success

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Mark Sennen

I think indie authors are too hung up on sales numbers. Having thousands of sales at 99c (approx 70p) does not mean that the author is more successful or better...

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Dreams

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Mark Sennen

Have you ever had one of those dreams that appears to solve everything? In this case I am talking about my novel. Last night I had a dream where everything fell...

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Down To Work

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Mark Sennen

So why on earth am I writing this? Still in second draft purgatory and having read through my old SF novel (see previous post) I am now wondering about the some...

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Dusting Off

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Mark Sennen

So I have been dusting off and old science fiction novel I wrote a few years ago. I thought that I would be shocked at how bad it was but it was the other way a...

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Misbehavin’ Characters

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Mark Sennen

Charlotte has been behaving herself recently, which is nice. Unfortunately some of the others haven’t. They keep getting ideas well above their stations o...