Rob Bignell's Blog, page 244
July 11, 2017
24 Writing Prompts to Inspire Your Next Story
Each link includes four writing prompts:
��� Experimentation
��� Finding identity
��� Finding meaning
��� Hope
��� Innocence lost
��� Rebellion
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July 9, 2017
Five Great Quotations about Books
���Books 
are a uniquely portable magic.��� - Stephen King
���A good book is an event in my life.��� - Stendahl
���I love the smell of book ink in the morning.��� - Umberto Eco
���A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.��� - Rebecca Solnit
���Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.��� - Lisa See
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July 8, 2017
European editing client publishes her first book
A recent 
editing client of mine has published her first book. Nikki J. Goldman���s ���Never Forgotten��� asks a simple question: What if your entire life you felt that you were someone else ��� a different gender, born to different parents in a different country, where you learned to speak an entirely different language? Goldman explores that concept and discovers that while in this life she is a woman born in communist Czechoslovakia, in her previous life she was a man from Oklahoma who died in the Vietnam War. And what if after you discover who you were, you contact your previous life���s family? The book is available online as a paperback.
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July 7, 2017
Editing client publishes relationship book
A recent 
editing client has published her first book, which asks the question, ���What does it mean for a woman to be in a ���real relationship��� with a man?��� In ���Better Left Said: Diary of a Single Girl Turned Christian,��� Amber Rhodes shows women how they can find an authentic love if first they move into a genuine relationship with Christ.
Drawing upon firsthand accounts of her bad romances, Rhodes describes how she found herself in a cycle of unequally yoked relationships, only to one day realize she no longer had to live that way. Change was not instant, she discovered, for all us need to time heal through Christ before we can move forward. Now Rhodes shares the message with all unhappy women that took her so long to learn: The beautiful relationship you deserve is out there, so long as you take the right steps to change yourself and to find it. The book is available online.
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July 3, 2017
Why self-published authors must keep records
As a writer, 
you undoubtedly keep every one of your writings. You���ve got journals full of story ideas, descriptions and story outlines, you���ve got great lines and character names scribbled on scraps of paper, you���ve got file folders with printouts of stories in various stages of revision.
Once you self-publish, you���ll need to bring all the meticulousness of that word hoarding to bear on your business records. That means never tossing a receipt and tracking them on income statements and balance sheets.
I know, I know, that sounds all terribly boring. But there are several reasons why you must keep business records:
��� Monitor your business ��� Records allow you to see if you���re making a profit or loss, to identify which products or services are selling, and to decide via data about how to make your business more profitable.
��� Provide financial statements ��� You���ll need income (specifically profit and loss) statements and balance sheets when you pay taxes or should you decide to seek a business loan.
��� Identify source of receipts ��� This information is needed to separate business from nonbusiness receipts and taxable from nontaxable income.
��� Keep track of deductible expenses ��� You then will be able to ensure you save some money at tax time.
��� Support items reported on tax returns ��� The IRS will require you to submit some of these records and at any time can request to inspect them to prove the validity of your returns.
Usually just a few minutes a day are needed to maintain your business records. Remember that recording the expenses as they occur will be much easier than trying to remember them or locate receipts when doing taxes. And before you offer the excuse, ���But that cuts into my writing time!��� know that not doing so likely means you���ll spend days of having to forgo writing at tax time.
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July 2, 2017
Five Great Quotations about the Writing Life
���There 
was nothing glorious about the life of a writer or the life of a drinker.��� - Charles Bukowski
���Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.��� - Julien Green
���Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.��� - Franz Kafka
���There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.��� - P.G. Wodehouse
���Date a girl who reads/Or better yet, date a girl who writes��� - Rosemarie Urquico
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Editing client publishes spiritual biography
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editing client of mine has published his first book. Brian Cox���s ���Tennis with God: My Quest For The Perfect Game And Peace With My Father��� tells the true story of a globetrotting Foreign Service brat who travels with his family through hardship posts in Africa, Asia, South America, and the Middle East. Along the way, high-level tennis and table tennis are his faithful companions, as Cox perfects his game and aims to earn the respect and acceptance of his overbearing father. During his journey, Cox becomes fascinated by spiritual knowledge and the paranormal. His search for self-realization eventually leads him to a mystical healer who demonstrates miracles and has no patience for rules. Under this teacher���s unique tutelage, Cox begins to transform himself as he seeks to find a way to heal his relationship with his father, and with himself as well. The book is available online.
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June 30, 2017
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Editing client���s novel novel explores jihadism
The second 
novel from an editing client who���s a former U.S. Army major general and college president has been released. Paul R. Lister���s ���Enemies��� marks a thoughtful political/military thriller about the rise of a new jihad in the Middle East. The Neo-Jihad is a well-funded and targeting specific military and industrial U.S. sites, combined with a calculated propaganda effort to subvert the support of the American population for programs that target extreme Islamist groups. Agent Tom Meredith ��� a lawyer, former SEAL, and Air Marshal ��� teams with the FBI to counter this movement���s attacks but seems to be fighting a losing battle. The action intensifies when the Neo-Jihad targets a prominent U.S. senator. ���Enemies��� is available online in paperback or ebook.
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