Hi friends,
Thanks for the brilliant responses to the mental health tip last week. I got some great ideas from your emails to add to my list for future newsletters. Keep them coming!
Also, I’m a bit sad to report that the amazing growth of my new story on Royal Road has slowed down considerably, now that it isn’t new enough to be on the popular Rising Stars list anymore.
My next step for marketing is to learn how to use Discord. Some of you are going to laugh at me while others might be asking, “What’s Discord?”
It’s another way to communicate with people online, in a fashion similar to the old AOL chatrooms (for those of you old enough to remember – lol)
In any case, other Royal Roal authors hang out in Discord chats. So, if I can network with some of them, we can do a shout-out to each other’s stories.
Just another day in learning the business of online marketing for authors. 🙂
In more exciting news, did you know about the amazing writing event that happens every November? Read all the details below:
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But first, for today’s excerpt – a taste of Awakening Horde, currently up to chapter 53 and free to read on Royal Road
Awakening Horde: Free to read on Royal Road!
The sudden darkness felt better and worse at the same time. Without being able to see, Pax could imagine he was in a small room, safe and enclosed. Only he knew better, and his mind began imagining a variety of encroaching horrors sneaking toward them unseen from the vast cavern. The growing noises of a battle below them only made it worse.
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And here’s a run down on NaNoWriMo:
NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month
I know some of you are authors or may have always wanted to write a book.
Well, November is the time to do it!
This month, every year, aspiring authors across the world get together with a goal to write a 50k word novel in 30 days.
That’s just under 2k words a day, which is my goal, since I don’t write on Sundays. Not to mention that Thanksgiving is in November, so . . . 🙂
The fun part is, this event takes the often solitary process of writing and finds you a bunch of friends and tools to do it with. By signing up for free on the website, you can track your words, see your progress, read helpful forum posts, make friends to write with, get discounts and a lot more.
It’s a great, supportive environment for a new author to push themselves. Also, a common hindrance for new authors is they get stuck rewriting that first chapter over and over, or spend hours tweaking the perfect plot or world. All of that keeps them from the most important part of being an author: writing more words.
NaNoWriMo helps with that.
So, jump in and give it a shot! Plus, feel free to add me as a writing “buddy”. I’m listed under docmisty. I’d love to see some new friends write a book this month!
To more fun stories in the world!
— Misty 🙂
p.s. See all my books on Amazon here: Misty Zaugg Amazon Page
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