#penduluminaction

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A decade after his first book deal, British writer Matt Haig posted a list of “30 Things Every Writer Should Know,” which appeared in The Telegraph. It’s a very worthwhile list, and more knowing than cynical and filled with aphoristic advice that every writer should take to heart.

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Assigning a genre to a book can be a form of ghettoizing it.

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In the business section of the New York Times today were virtual side-by-side articles showing how some people understand today’s marketplace while others still operate under the impression that we’re living in the 1960s.

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Do you even read them if they happen to appear?

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You never know what’s going to work. But certain trends seem to keep popping up, and writers try to jump on them.

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Innovating from within can be just as important as creating something entirely new.

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More people are asking me about self-publishing, not only for my thoughts about my own experiences in publishing my novel “The Rectory”, but how my friends and colleagues are doing with their own self-published books.

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People are no longer tied to consuming information in only one way, whether that’s movies, television, music, books, information in general.

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Getting your book noticed has always been a challenge.

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Your book may not be finished, but you can still begin to profit from it by publishing it in parts.

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Talk to the crowd, but talk to them as if their opinions count, because they do.