marketing incites from righting my 9th novel

Last year I launched my final "Enoch Wars" novel. It took exactly ten years to write and publish the 9-part series. And following are some insights that occurred to me after finishing it up. You may find some of these insights useful. Others might sound completely confusing or even inane. And a few will likely make no sense at all — with the last one not even making sense to me. All right here goes: * Days off from writing weaken momentum like women weaken legs * Ideas are given life when writing, stories are given life when editing * Social media has destroyed more books than all of history’s book burning tyrants combined * The first draft is just a gesture sketch * Think chapters not words or pages * Hurry up * Write one chapter per day no matter what * Rocky Balboa’s “One step, one punch, one round at at time” line is perhaps the single greatest piece of writing advice never told * Start with a satyr carrying packages in the forest and build from there * Whatever you write today will likely be completely different if you wrote the same story/content/themes/ideas tomorrow (i.e., if I wrote THIS email tomorrow instead of today, it would very likely be radically different, and maybe even something else altogether) * But don’t get hung up on that fact… * …Otherwise it could make you procrastinate or drive you insane with what could have been if you wrote it yesterday, could happen if you wait until tomorrow, or could transpire if you don’t write it at all and decide to write something totally different * Stephen King was onto something about writing with the door closed * Speaking of Stephen King… don’t wipe your ass with poison ivy * If it ain’t fun, you’re not doing it write * Some of the most famous lines ever penned were written in the passive voice * You don’t write novels, you right them Admittedly I probably just rote more than I no. And if you find yourself curious about my fiction, and especially if you’re a liberal weenie, I leave you with this warning from Email Players subscriber Daniel Throssell said when he wrote the intro to book 8 of the series — “God Blood” — for me: “It’s like Ben wrote these books HOPING to be cancelled... and had a devious smile on his face as he did it.” He is right, slapping a “Banned on Amazon!” slug on the covers would be fun.. Maybe my next series will push the write buttons? Who nos? But I’ll be starting that one soon enough. In the meantime: If you want to read the first book (Zombie Cop) in the 9-part Enoch Wars series free, you can find it in eBook, audio book, and even screenplay format in the free Enoch Wars mobile app at the link below on your mobile phone or iPad (it is not available on desktop yet). I also have some writing and other fiction-related lessons in there, too, if that kind of info creams your righteous twinkie. All right here it is: [( Ben Settle This email was sent by Ben Settle as owner of Settle, LLC. Copyright © 2024 Settle, LLC. All Rights Reserved. No part of this email may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from Settle, LLC. Click here to [unsubscribe]( Settle, LLC PO Box 1056 Gold Beach Oregon 97444 USA