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Post Novel Publishing Process - Pain

What happens after you publish your novel?

If you want to ensure you have the absolute best output you possibly can, then you've got more work to do.

Here I discuss the post pub process and offer a few ways to make it less intimidating and frustrating.

You can get my latest novel Gates of Okinawa, here.

2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July

Writing in the Margins: Crafting a Novel Amidst Life's Chaos

2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July

Secondary Character Send-offs

How I'm closing small plot threads
2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July

Your Novel Begins Today: Redefine what it means to be a novelist

2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July

How to use ClaudeAI for Novel Writing

2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July

Selling and failing: an attempt to get my novel into a Japanese bookstore

Taking a chance in Japan (日本語でも）
2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July
Refreshing Repetitive Scenes: A Novelist's Strategy for Reader Engagement

Refreshing Repetitive Scenes: A Novelist's Strategy for Reader Engagement

Lessons from Writing Multiple Soul Trials in Horror Fiction
2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July

Daily Streaks, Fiction Peaks

You can always write your way out
2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July
When the Words Won't Flow: Turning Bad Days into Better Stories

When the Words Won't Flow: Turning Bad Days into Better Stories

Embracing Feedback, Fighting Self-Doubt, and Writing Through Adversity
2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July

AI-Assisted Novelist | Character building in a drinking contest scene

Dinner, demons, and drinks with a side of AI
2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July

Prose under pressure: Writing with a time limit

2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July

Comedy rhythm in dialogue | writing when sick

2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July
The Hero With A Thousand Faces

The Hero With A Thousand Faces

The universal story of psychology, myth, and heros
2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July

Murakami Method | Writing consequences in fiction

Running with ideas, what it's like to be hated
2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July

What to do when you have no idea what to write

Make the muse sing
2024‘s Thoughts
✦ July
On Writing

On Writing

Stephen King's writing memoir
2024‘s Thoughts
✦ June

Giving a secondary character something to do

For when ideas are lacking