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  1. Magik

    I'm Starting A YouTube Channel: Your advices ? (+TL;DR)

    EXECUTION 
    They will if you violate copyrights, post nudity, anything illegal, and for some other reasons. Certain niches get the ban hammer quicker, like dieting/weight loss, music/film related, dating related. Just read the guidelines and follow them.
  2. Magik

    I'm Starting A YouTube Channel: Your advices ? (+TL;DR)

    EXECUTION 
    My main piece of advice would be to closely adhere to YouTube's guidelines (I won't list them all here). Keep in mind that they are in control. They can kill your business anytime they want, and the newer you are, the higher you are at risk of this. My other piece of advice is have something...
  3. Magik

    HowToPubYourself is up and running!

    PUBLISHING 
    Very interesting. It hadn't occurred to me that this even existed. Thanks for posting this. I picked up that they design your book cover and handle all the tech aspects of getting the book formatted and up for sale. Regarding marketing, are they doing any paid ads, or do they just focus on...
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    Brain Abundance Brain Fuel Business Opportunity And Product Information

    HOT! 
    I'm amazed at how mad and defensive these MLM people get. It's incredible. They are hell bent on being right and justifying their position. I've seen it online, and offline in the real world. Nothing changes.
  5. Magik

    Gullible MLM junkies. SOS

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    They always get mad, don't they? It's unbelievable. When I was managing a T-Mobile store, I was approached by a guy who was trying to recruit me into an insurance sales MLM. I took his card, and told him I would look into it. 5 minutes of due diligence via a Google search (seriously, that's all...
  6. Magik

    Admitting there's a problem is the first step.

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    Damn OP, you've got many of the top posters helping you out. I hope you understand how HUGE that is. Many of us didn't get that level of attention. My recommendation is to kill your slowlane job as quickly as possible. I asked if I should quit, @zend***phin told me to go for it, and I did. BEST...
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    Finish My Book and Publish

    PUBLISHING 
    Here's a few more things I have done lately. -Took a few sections out that didn't seem to fit (unnecessary flashbacks) . -Removed a character because he didn't fit in the story. -Moved a few sections of those flashbacks to the beginning, will work them in as backstory. -Decided to build up a...
  8. Magik

    He sold potato peelers and became a millionaire

    OFF-TOPIC 
    This is why we say that success is about your process. Perfect example.
  9. Magik

    At the very beginning...

    PUBLISHING 
    I want to read The Martian (I think we're referring to the same book). It seems like an interesting story, certainly one that I haven't read before. I think the weirder the story, the better, as long as you can hold the reader's attention. People are longing to read something new, something...
  10. Magik

    At the very beginning...

    PUBLISHING 
    Yes, process is everything in writing, almost more so than other entrepreneurial businesses. The writer's job is to tell an amazing story and keep the reader in it, with as few distractions as possible. Easier said than done, especially since everyone is different. Any technique or method of...
  11. Magik

    Remember What Apple did to Smartphones? Now watch Amazon

    It makes sense. The airline could set it up so that they get paid an affiliate commission on every sale. Granted, this wouldn't be much, but on a large scale, with thousands of flights a day, it would add up quickly. They could do this with retailers other than Amazon as well.
  12. Magik

    Upside down equity in a vehicle.

    Yeah, I would sell it, but the first thing I would do is refinance it and get out from under that 16% interest rate. Refinancing will not make your loan go down, but you can get a lower rate and shorten the amount of time it takes you to pay off the loan. Banks love to refinance cars, not near...
  13. Magik

    A Reader's Rants and Thoughts on Writing

    PUBLISHING 
    Oh, sorry, I misunderstood.:) When I have blocks of narrative summary, between scenes or at the end of a chapter, I get loose and use bigger words and metaphor. When there's a scene with dialogue, I do the opposite. I say as little as possible as the narrator, usually just enough to keep the...
  14. Magik

    Should I Publish My Poetry?

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    If I publish it, I'll do it under a pen name, for sure. I could see how fans would be turned off, poetry is a different type of writing than fiction. Thanks for the input.
  15. Magik

    Should I Publish My Poetry?

    PUBLISHING 
    No, it's not on a bucket list or anything. I just have a lot of it and thought that I might be able to make a little money off of it. I could enter the best one's in some contests, I thought about that, but either way, poetry won't be a major focus of mine.
  16. Magik

    A Reader's Rants and Thoughts on Writing

    PUBLISHING 
    @COSenior- Hmm, well, my point regarding reader's intelligence is that readers are usually smart people. They can usually understand what's going on in a scene without the adverb, but that's more of my own opinion, so take it with a grain of salt. I'm more guilty of using a weak verb without an...
  17. Magik

    I hit publish on my first romance novel!

    PUBLISHING 
    Congrats! I'm not far behind you. I've got a novel on deck that I'm getting close to finishing, and some short stories in the hole. The key is to write as well as you can, write a lot, and try to get better with each work you put out there. It also doesn't hurt to give the market what it wants...
  18. Magik

    Should I Publish My Poetry?

    PUBLISHING 
    If I had a character in a story who wrote poems, some of them could serve as his poems, thus the poems become a part of the story. Otherwise, I don't see a way I could incorporate them into a novel because they are too abstract for that. There are people who buy poetry books, but it's a much...
  19. Magik

    Should I Publish My Poetry?

    PUBLISHING 
    When I was a teenager, I wrote a lot of poetry. I don't know how many poems I wrote, but I bet I have 200 scattered across 4 or 5 notebooks, maybe more. I went back and thumbed through them today. Some of this stuff I haven't read in years. A good portion of it sucks, but then, some of it would...
  20. Magik

    Finish My Book and Publish

    PUBLISHING 
    Word count is currently around 44,900. I have a few more sections to finish, probably looking at around 50,000 words total. It's hard to say where it will finish. Once I begin self-editing, I will probably see things that need to be removed, as well as thing that need to be added. Then, it's off...

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