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Authortube: What to do When You Write Yourself into a Corner (and How to Get Out of It)

Posted on July 26, 2024 5:27 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: What to do When You Write Yourself into a Corner

(and How to Get Out of It)

It’s okay. It happens. Sometimes the story rolls so strong you just go with it and see where it takes you. Unfortunately, though I firmly believe the Story knows best, sometimes a writer finds themselves in a place where they have written themselves into a corner and there is no way to move the story forward. Everything and everybody in your tale is stuck and locked in Time. You tried to fix it but only made it worse. You don’t want to scrap it or rewrite a pile of stuff that came before this point, and even if you backtracked, it wouldn’t be the same. What you have is perfect except . . . you’re in a corner.

Here’s how you get out of it and get the story moving again.

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Authortube: What to do When You Write Yourself into a Corner (and How to Get Out of It)

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Authortube: How to Write Your Back Cover Synopsis | 3 Easy Steps

Posted on June 24, 2024 5:11 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: How to Write Your Back Cover Synopsis | 3 Easy Steps

Most writers complain when it comes to part of making a book where the back cover synopsis has to be written. Plenty of writers struggle with writing it . . . but it doesn’t have to be that way because, in truth, it’s a basic process. Case in point: If you’re able to sum up your book in one to four words as a title, it’s guaranteed you can sum up the same but just a little more loosely.

Follow these three simple steps and you’ll be writing your back cover synopsis with ease.

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Authortube: How to Write Your Back Cover Synopsis | 3 Easy Steps

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Authortube: Dear Aspiring Writers – Do You REALLY Want to Write?

Posted on June 17, 2024 6:05 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: Dear Aspiring Writers – Do You REALLY Want to Write?

It’s a serious question. If you’re an aspiring writer, are you serious about this or is it just a want? Or are you writing but don’t consider yourself a writer? In this video you get both encouragement and instruction regarding these questions.

The answer is very simple. Watch and see.

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Authortube: Dear Aspiring Writers – Do You REALLY Want to Write?

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Authortube: Open Letter to All Scammers, Spammers, and Solictors of Services

Posted on June 10, 2024 5:15 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: Open Letter to All Scammers, Spammers, and Solictors of Services

This video letter is speaking on behalf of myself and thousands of other authors around the world. We are sick and tired of you spamming our book announcements and threads with solicitation of services we can easily do ourselves.

Two words: Stop it.

Another two words: Grow up.

You are not a professional. You are a scammer for anyone who spams scams. Period.

Please share this video if you’re an author/creator and feel the same.

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Authortube: Open Letter to All Scammers, Spammers, and Solictors of Services

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Authortube: Don’t Overthink the Story (The Subconscious Mind)

Posted on June 7, 2024 5:16 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: Don’t Overthink the Story (The Subconscious Mind)

There is a tendency to overthink while writing, especially amongst new writers. You want to do well, want to make a good impression, want to come up with something well-written and perhaps clever, and while these goals are good, they can also lead to the slippery slope of overthinking your story.

This video goes over adjusting your headspace so there is no disconnection between your conscious and subconscious mind due to overthinking your story.

The solution is simple. Watch and find out.

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Authortube: Don’t Overthink the Story (The Subconscious Mind)

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Authortube: Freelancing: The Follow Up | Manners

Posted on May 29, 2024 5:18 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: Freelancing: The Follow Up | Manners

So, when to follow up with an employer?

This just happened at the time the video was made. I decided to make the video a little fired up because the arts are all about honesty and honest expression so that’s what you’re getting here.

The same rules of manners regarding the follow up is the same for freelancers as it is for working in the public or private sector. This is it on how to be a professional freelaner.

This is basic stuff. We learned this in kindergarden. I hope you learn something from this video, especially if you’re new to the freelancing world.

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Authortube: Freelancing: The Follow Up | Manners

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Authortube: How to Get Past the Writing Wall | How to Overcome Writer’s Block

Posted on May 22, 2024 6:16 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: How to Get Past the Writing Wall | How to Overcome Writer’s Block

Writer’s block hits every writer once in a while. For myself, it only happened once until I figured out how to overcome it. That was over twenty years ago. This authortube video is meant to encourage you and put you in the right headspace to keep the story moving forward despite if you feel blocked. Without proper headspace, you won’t get anywhere anyway. It’s my hope that this video helps set your head on straight so you can continue with your story.

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Authortube: How to Get Past the Writing Wall | How to Overcome Writer’s Block

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Authortube: How to Handle a Bad Review

Posted on May 15, 2024 5:33 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: How to Handle a Bad Review

Oh no! Someone bashed your baby! All those months–maybe even years–of hard work and somebody doesn’t like it. They leave a bad review and you’re stuck feeling like garbage. Or should you?

Veteran author and self-publisher A.P. Fuchs weighs in on a very simple way to handle a bad review.

Hope you find this encouraging despite it being blunt.

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Authortube: How to Handle a Bad Review

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Authortube: The Best Piece of Writing Advice I Ever Got

Posted on April 29, 2024 5:20 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: The Best Piece of Writing Advice I Ever Got

A long time ago, a fellow author and I were talking about book reviews and how some of them can be so malicious.

During that conversation, my friend said something that would change how I approach writing and producing books from then on forth.

Watch this vLog to hear what he had to say and how it can apply to your own writing or artistic efforts.

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Authortube: The Best Piece of Writing Advice I Ever Got

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Canadian Scribbler: Collected Letters of an Underground Writer

Posted on March 11, 2014 3:48 pm by A.P. Fuchs

Canadian Scribbler: Collected Letters of an Underground Writer

Bringing together letters from 2005 – 2013, Canadian Scribbler: Collected Letters of an Underground Writer is a look into the world of independent publisher, author, editor and cartoonist, A.P. Fuchs.

Topics include: self-publishing tips and tricks, writing advice, the C4 Lit Fest short story critiques, Fuchs’s superhero epic The Axiom-man Saga, book reviews and commentary, the Second Coming, thoughts on the comic book market, the gray areas of modern day society, and much more.

Includes letters to such literary notables as Stephen King, Dave Sim, George Clayton Johnson, Piers Anthony, Brian Michael Bendis, Kevin J. Anderson and many others.

Always insightful, often witty and consistently inspirational, Canadian Scribbler: Collected Letters of an Underground Writer is a thoughtful collection of letters from one man whose passion for the creative industry—and trying to survive in it—shines through on every page.

Available as a paperback at:

Amazon.com
Amazon.ca
Amazon.co.uk
Barnes and Noble
Other On-line Retailers

Available as an eBook at:

Amazon Kindle
Drivethru Fiction
Smashwords

For more non-fiction, consider Look, Up on the Screen! The Big Book of Superhero Movie Reviews.

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