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What If – Random Quote Generator Widget

December 23, 2018

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Please note that none of my Android apps is any longer maintained – and they’re not even available on Google Play anymore – for reasons you can read about here. If you still have any of the Home for Fiction Android apps installed on your phone, you’re advised to uninstall them. The post below should be seen purely as a snapshot of history.

Besides GhostWriter and Narrative Nods, I’ve also published a third Android app about which I haven’t talked in this blog. The app is called What If – Random Quote Generator Widget.

As the name probably reveals, it’s a simple widget that lives on your screen and shows random what if quotes. It’s an entirely random quote generator, which means it can produce some inadvertently hilarious phrases.

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Authors, Here’s How to Deal with Negative Feedback

December 17, 2018

Writing

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If you’re an author, whether of fiction or nonfiction, one of the things you must learn is how to deal with negative feedback.

As soon as a novel (or book in general) reaches a public audience, it becomes a potential subject of critique. Most authors welcome that – or at least they claim they do! And yet, what they really are after is not feedback but positive feedback.

To an extent this is human nature. Most people would prefer to hear good words and praises about their work, not criticism and reasons why someone thought it was bad. But you can’t please everyone – neither should you try – and hence it’s inevitable that negative feedback is something that you, as a writer, will have to deal with sooner or later.

In today’s article I show you how to deal with negative feedback. Sneak preview: it’s not what you think it is!

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Authors Talk: a Discussion with Scott Peters

December 9, 2018

Author Interview, Literature

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This article is a part of a series of blog entries, which I refer to as “Authors Talk”. You can think of it as an author interview and, indeed, that is the name of the blog category. However, I prefer to see it as a friendly chat between fellow authors. Today I’m having this virtual chat with Scott Peters, author of – among others – adventure stories set in ancient Egypt. A detailed list of useful links to Scott Peters’s work can be found at the end of this article.

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