by admin | Jul 30, 2019 | 2019, Asengana, Writing life
What makes a bestseller? It’s not the quality of writing. It’s how many copies it sells. If a book is marketed well, published at the right time, and becomes a bestseller, we assume that it is some inherent quality of the text. Let’s stop here and now and accept the...
by admin | Jul 25, 2019 | 2019, Asengana, Writing life
I heard this quite often. A writer defining his market as enormous with hundreds of thousands of people hungry for his words. Science fiction, romance, crime, and so on. First image that come to mind is that writer in boat looking at me standing on the shore while he...
by admin | Jul 17, 2019 | 2019, Asengana, Writing life
There are a few writers’ conventions where I go every year. A good learning experience and networking. Most times is hard to get the writers talking and interacting with you. Especially when you want to talk with as many professional writers as you can about how they...
by admin | Jul 11, 2019 | 2019, Asengana, Writing life
When you want to be heard over the chatter in a coffee shop, you raise your voice. The same happens in online. Most people are willing to raise their voice in defense or in opposition to an idea, a person, or a product. You’ll notice a lot of opinions about how good...
by admin | Jul 4, 2019 | 2019, Asengana, Writing life
I delete 70% of the blog articles I write at a second reading. I called it Words Quality Assurance. It’s not about you, the reader. I do it for my own mental sanity. I don’t think that the articles I publish are better than the ones I delete. I read online faster and...
by admin | Jul 1, 2019 | 2019, Asengana, Writing life
When we started building Asengana, we knew the project management concepts we want it to apply. We also had a long list of requirements gathered from the writers that were very helpful. In the middle of all this, there were my own experiences as a writer and the ways...
