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Ashley Dufault
Apr 25, 20174 min read
THE DARK SIDE OF ONLINE WRITING COMMUNITIES
As you know by now, I’m in love with J.A. Konrath’s blog. In a post made a few years ago, one of the things he suggested to do is to join...
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Ashley Dufault
Apr 21, 20173 min read
MY WRITING DISTRACTIONS
The volume of my distractions never ceases to surprise me. Currently, I’m supposed to be talking to my boyfriend about book cover...
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Ashley Dufault
Apr 19, 20172 min read
#THINGSONLYWOMENWRITERSHEAR: SEXISM IN PUBLISHING
If you’re on Twitter, you heard about this trending hashtag today: #ThingsOnlyWomenWritersHear. It started as a way to reveal sexism in...
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Ashley Dufault
Apr 15, 20173 min read
DRAFT COMPLETED. NOW WHAT?
You ever get so wrapped up in something that you lose track of time, or just don’t care about time at all? I stayed up late last night to...
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Ashley Dufault
Apr 10, 20172 min read
WHAT IS A BLOG TOUR?
It used to be that when authors released a book, they’d travel the country, visiting every bookstore known to man to sign their books and...
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Ashley Dufault
Apr 10, 20174 min read
WRITING TIPS: THE SNOWFLAKE METHOD
If you’ve read much at all about writing you’ve probably heard of the Snowflake Method, but what is it? To simplify, it’s a method that...
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Ashley Dufault
Mar 28, 20172 min read
WHAT'S YOUR CHARACTER PROFILE?
Think of the people in your life. You know their age groups, their personalities, their hopes, dreams, and fears. The characters we read...
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Ashley Dufault
Mar 23, 20173 min read
TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING VS. SELF-PUBLISHING
I get a lot of shocked, disappointed looks when I tell people that I plan to self-publish. I usually get the following questions and...
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Ashley Dufault
Mar 17, 20172 min read
USING A PROFESSIONAL BOOK COVER DESIGNER
Every weekend, my boyfriend and I go out to eat somewhere. This past weekend, as we were waiting for a breakfast skillet and eggs...
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Ashley Dufault
Mar 14, 20172 min read
IF I LET YOU GO BOOK COVER BRAINSTORMING
It’s been a while! Editing is going well with 19,000 words left. I made 3 book cover mock-ups. This was the first. I like it, but it’s...
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Ashley Dufault
Mar 11, 20172 min read
SOME NOTES ON BOOK COVERS
I’ve never been very into art, but I will say this: I love me some 80s-style imagery. That’s why this book cover post by J.A. Konrath...
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Ashley Dufault
Dec 29, 20163 min read
WORD COUNT UPDATES
To hold myself accountable, I’m going to update a post once a week with my word counts. As long as I’m making about 10 pages of progress...
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Ashley Dufault
Dec 27, 20163 min read
MY FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH OBJECTIFICATION IN PUBLISHING
When I told myself I wanted to finish my third draft of If I Let You Go by Christmas, I didn’t realize I had about half the book to go....
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Ashley Dufault
Dec 17, 20162 min read
TWITTER MARKETING
In my last post, I touched upon how I’ve been using Twitter to meet more people and make more people aware of my writing. As of this...
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Ashley Dufault
Dec 14, 20162 min read
PUBLISHING IN 2006 VS. MODERN DAY: NOTES ON J.A. KONRATH
As I’ve mentioned before, I spend a lot of time reading J.A. Konrath’s blog. I’m not sure where he’s disappeared to as of late, but his...
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Ashley Dufault
Oct 23, 20163 min read
DRAFT #3 OF IF I LET YOU GO: THE BETA-READER COMMENTS
I thought draft #3 was done, until I gave my book to my first beta-reader, my boyfriend. Verdict on draft #3 of If I Let You Go: He loves...
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Ashley Dufault
Oct 9, 20162 min read
ALMOST DONE EDITING IF I LET YOU GO
In between life and worries and adventures, I’ve edited about 6,000 words and added another thousand or so. I have 5,000 left. I could...
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