WRITING GOALS AND DELAYS
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Ashley Dufault
- Jun 9, 2017
- 3 min
Blog Tour Scams
The other day, I got a message from someone asking if she could PLEASE review my book, If I Let You Go. She linked to her site in her...
Ashley Dufault
- Apr 28, 2017
- 4 min
BAD REVIEWS
I want to talk about bad reviews today. When I was in college, I studied Communication, specifically Media & Technology. It was an...
Ashley Dufault
- Apr 26, 2017
- 4 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Apr 22, 2017
- 3 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Apr 20, 2017
- 2 min
#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...
Ashley Dufault
- Apr 16, 2017
- 3 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Apr 10, 2017
- 2 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Apr 10, 2017
- 4 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Mar 29, 2017
- 2 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Mar 24, 2017
- 3 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Mar 17, 2017
- 2 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Mar 14, 2017
- 2 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Mar 11, 2017
- 2 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Dec 29, 2016
- 3 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Dec 28, 2016
- 3 min
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....
Ashley Dufault
- Dec 18, 2016
- 2 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Dec 15, 2016
- 2 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Oct 24, 2016
- 3 min
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...
Ashley Dufault
- Oct 10, 2016
- 2 min
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...