Amina Warsuma's Blog

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A Memoir, Autobiography, Biography are all different. A Memoir is what you remember that is significant to you and it is not supposed to be in chronological order because not everything you remember is important to you. Concerning people, places, and things.
An Autobiography is written by you about the timely events in chronological order the times of your life from beginning middle and end. If you are still alive you can end at the chapter you want and pick up where you left off or near the end of your life. A Biography is the same as an Autobiography the difference is someone else writes it about your life or after you are dead. Which can give the reader the complete story of your life from beginning middle and end. With the documentation of Months, Dates and Times, Places, People, and Things that happened in your life in chronological order. I hope my explanation has enlightened you as to the difference between the three genres. Have a Happy New Year!

DEFECTIVE KINDLE GIVE AWAY COPY OF AMBER STONE AGENT ZERO

In the giveaway, Amber Stone Agent Zero CHAPTERS, CHARACTERS', WORDS are missing in the kindle. Please stop reading the old defective copy it is no longer on Kindle. I notified Good Reads to inform you so you don't waste your time reading the giveaway version?

I have a new corrected edition of Amber Stone Agent Zero on the market now

I looked over the Agent Zero kindle copy there are errors I had a service to do the kindle copy so I have corrected and did a NEW EDITION. I will do the kindle copy myself. Whatever was missing backstory, story connection, literary glue, new characters are corrected and injected in the story to complete it and I have connected the dots. Please stop reading this old copy. I did receive five stars on the NEW EDITION? If you wish to buy the new edition fine but don't waste your time reading the old giveaway copy and rating it.

Writing is about rewriting very few authors get it right the first time.

Most authors have publishers who spend thousands on the editing and rewriting process and some have a ghostwriter. Today you have software tools to help you with the editing process. But the rewriting still is up to the author and if you are not prepared or have writer's block and can't fix the problems that reviewers or publishers point out. It will be hard to grow as a writer if you just go onto your next book. If you have a traditional publisher they are not going to spend additional money to fix a book that they already spent money on its a win-lose or draw situation. I'm blessed because GoodReads seemed like the worst situation came out for the best for me. I paid $15,000 for Agent Zero and I ended having to do everything for myself. The technology didn't exist when I first started writing my story now it does. Looking at my work closely what I learned is to keep my own counsel if someone said it's good or bad look at it analyze it why is it good or bad? I've come to the conclusion for me no one can do my work better or tell my story better than I. It takes patience to wait for the Universe to download the answers that are missing in my book. Ask and I shall receive. I have all the time in the world to just fix it whereas before I was working on several projects at once. So if one thing fell through the others won't. At one point you are going to have to ask yourself what fell through and why? I've learned one thing that I have to have everything right before I take it to a big publisher or studio. I know my market is 18 to 45 I know what is missing and what needs to be added or what questions to ask the Universe to get the answers. I am a boss and I have to know the answers before I discharge responsibilities to my subordinates and independent contractors. This will be my 20th time rewriting Agent Zero it is not easy I am doing it because it's hard and it forces me to grow as a writer-creator and visionary. I ask myself what would a world be like without love? Where love becomes the most precious commodity? I've seen what that is like on GoodReads which is a reflection of Agent Zero which turned out to be a blessing in disguise for me I can inject balance and some light into my story and not go from one extreme to the other and replace mediocrity with the perfection that supersedes the original concept.

Agent Zero's characters are revealed in the beginning

In the first couple of chapters, I write about the villains and give you a clear picture of who they are where they come from who and what made them into the people that they are. This is the origin of TIE?

As a writer I am authentic to my characters dialogue and world.

Being authentic to your characters do you write as they speak or do you write as you speak? If your characters are from a foreign country how would you know it if they spoke perfect English? I'm saying my characters are from Beirut and I'm writing their dialogue like they are English professors? Is that bringing the reader into their world? Does the reader believe they are living and from Beirut? My object as a writer is to take the reader first is to be original and second to take them into another universe and world and be believable.

Being authentic to your characters do you write as they speak or do you write as you speak?

There is nothing wrong with the grammar or punctuation or syntax and pacing. I had a professional editor from Book Baby edit the first 100 pages. The first two people who read it on Goodreads and my professional reviewers gave me a 4 to 5 star. In the first three chapters, my characters are Lebanese from Beirut speaking English they live in Beirut that is the way they speak English I am authentic to my characters?

My wish for everyone to stay happy and healthy.

Stay Positive I hope everyone is in good health because that is your wealth.

Being able to read the New York Times

When I was in High school in the ghetto we didn't read the New York Times we read the Daily News or the Post. Most students in High School struggled to read the Times or found it tedious none of the articles or stories related to us. But the teacher demanded that we read it so we had to adapt to it and if we did read the times and write an essay out of an eagerness to learn. Those who had an open mind and wanted to learn something new got an A. Those who read it in frustration and struggled to read it. They would rush through it to get it over within a week when she would give them three weeks to turn the paper in. The Times became a tedious paper at the beginning or the middle or at the end of the story. The teacher would require a bio on the writer of the story. They would find a quote they didn't like and use that as an excuse claiming it turned them off. The writers' job is not to please them but to write the story in the Times. They didn't have the energy for the Times it didn't matter because those students didn't wish to read it in the first place. They found the Times to be burdensome they failed the class. While others like me speed ahead and got an A and moved out of the ghetto. The teacher would tell the students it's not the New York Times or the author's problem that you are struggling to read their story while others are reading and comprehending the story clearly. Stop complaining with a bunch of excuses be positive open your mind to learning new things that is the only way you are going to pass with an A. This is what I did and passed that same teacher took me down to Eileen Ford Modeling Agency to meet Eileen Ford personally and she gave me an accurate prediction for my career. Why because I wasn't closed-minded I could see another person's point of view or story an accept a new frontier. There was never No I can't it was always Yes I Can!

I'm looking for Spy Fans.

I'm doing several giveaways I wish to get a group of readers who love action spy genres who will follow my series. I'm not trying to be Stephen King or Truman Capote I am me an original. I'm not trying to compete with other authors I can't be anyone but me I'm real. I get my downloads from the Universe. Amber Stone Agent Zero has her own Universe as the series goes on everything will be revealed its too much to put into one book. I'm confident that my book is of quality and I have posted my reviews from reviewers who wouldn't even review it if it was less than a 4 star. They would have told me to go back and work on the book it's not ready. A book has to be marketed to its genre's audience and that is why I'm on good reads I'm looking for Spy fans who like, action-adventure stories only and wish to see a different take on it. I'm looking for my own audience who are young open-minded who like Comic-Con, Winter Con, Cosplay and originality with an imagination. My characters have costumes and merchandise. Everybody is not my audience. I understand that and making it clear what type of audience I am marketing to anything other is not valid because you are not my audience of choice or desire I wish to appeal to my base. Like J.K. Rowling she started marketing to kids because the publishing companies in England wouldn't publish her book. She had a fan base of kids and it grew into adults. That is the correct way to market a book to a specific audience and it grows outside of that group fine all the better for the author publishers and booksellers. I'm not throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks I know the audience that I am writing for and desire. Even if you are not young you have to be young at heart and want to enjoy action-adventure and new takes or original works. Have fun and enjoy the journey. So if you are a spy fan I invite you to enter the giveaway.