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Five Links Friday 11/18/16

November 18, 2016 By: Jason Bougger

The best articles I read about writing this week.

Time again for Five Links Friday! Hope your week was as productive as mine. Here are some links for ya. 1. Ever wonder how a literary agency sells its authors? Here is a post by Andrew Lownie at Publishing Talk to tell you how: How does a literary agency sell its authors? 2. NaNoWriMo is […]

Podcast Episode 23 – The Long and Short of Promotion

November 10, 2016 By: Jason Bougger

In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott take a look at promoting yourself as a writer with tips on pitching your novel and finding speaking engagements.

In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott take a look at promoting yourself as a writer with tips on pitching your novel and finding speaking engagements. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS and YouTube. About the hosts Jason Bougger lives in Omaha, […]

Five Links Friday 10/21/16

October 21, 2016 By: Jason Bougger

The best articles I read about writing this week.

Whoa, we’re running out of awesomeness this month! Just too much going on. I’ve already decided against NaNoWriMo, but I hope a few of you out there on the internetz are still considering it. Here are 5 Links for ya! 1. Let’s begin with a post fromĀ Rachel Thompson at Bad Redhead Media that is a […]

9 Truths About Writing for Writers and Non-Writers

October 18, 2016 By: Jason Bougger

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Do you ever feel like nobody outside of your “writer friends” circle really understands you? As far as the struggles you go through working on that next revision, or simply dealing with the craziness of real life while trying to finish your first draft. While those topics are a little more glandular than what I […]

Thoughts from Nebraska Writers Guild Fall Conference 2016.

October 17, 2016 By: Jason Bougger

Nebraska Writers Guild

It’s been a great, inspirational, and educational couple of months for me, with the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold conference in September and the Nebraska Writers Guild Fall Conference this month. This was my fourth NWG conference, and I found it to be the most valuable one so far. The sessions this time followed […]

Stuff you need (and stuff you don’t need) for your author platform

September 13, 2016 By: Jason Bougger

How important is your writing platform to agents? How should you present yourself, as a writer, on your social media sites?

Something interesting happened at the RMFW conference. I heard differing opinions on something. I kind of jest, but on this one topic, it seems like the consensus has been 100%. And topic is The Author Platform. If you’ve followed the business of writing in the last five years or so, you would think that everything […]

August Progress Report and September Goals (2016)

August 31, 2016 By: Jason Bougger

My writing goals for the month

Last month I decided to do a post sharing my writing accomplishments for the last thirty days as well as listing my goals for the coming month. As August comes to a close, I decided to do it again. I think it’s a good practice to occasionally review your progress toward your end goal, and […]

Five Links Friday 8/12/16

August 12, 2016 By: Jason Bougger

The best articles I read about writing this week.

Well, here it is Friday already and it looks like I forgot something…I forgot to blog this week! The standard excuses are family illnesses, the day job, and working on the novel revision. FWIW, the revision is coming alone fairly well šŸ™‚ But enough about me. Here is another Five Links Friday post for you […]

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