In which a Substacker advises writers to ignore writing advice. Come again?
I had to snicker at the title of this post from Henry Oliver on his Common Reader Substack: Writing advice is a lie.
From there, Oliver offers some advice of his own. He tells us to ignore all that writing advice you see floating around Substack and in books. (Excluding his own, presumably.)
“Almost all of it is wrong,. Flat wrong. Plain wrong. Waste-of-time wrong,” he writes.
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One of the more prolific indie writers I’ve discovered on social media is K.T. Carlisle, the pseudonym for a writer who has two murder mysteries to her credit (Reasonable and Forget-Me-Not) and two more in progress (Unhinged, which will be out this November, and I Know What I Saw, which comes out next January). The first three books are part of a series she calls, “What Happened to Mia Davis?” The fourth book is a young adult paranormal thriller.
K.T. also is active on X (Twitter), where she harnesses the power of that social media platform to promote her work, grow her audience, and connect with other writers.
Despite (or perhaps because of) her experience working in a literary agency, K.T. decided to self-publish her novels. In addition to writing murder mysteries, she offers copywriting, website development, and social media management services through a niche marketing agency she founded in 2018. Somehow, while juggling all these activities, she found time to share insights about her writing, her influences, and her use of social media as a marketing tool.
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