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How Not to Screw Up Social Media - A Blog by Julie Butcher

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Friday, May 23rd, 2014

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How to Not Screw Up Social Media
by Julie Butcher-Fedynich

Twitter: You’re doing it wrong.

We will give you the benefit of the doubt for a little while. We know some of you are new. Everyone was the new guy once upon a time so here are some nice rules so you’ll quite looking like a self-absorbed narcissistic jerk.
Please be sure and advertise your book every chance you get. As writers, we absolutely all have more time and money than good sense and taste, and are happy to throw our dollars into your pockets on a whim.—not.

I absolutely, when given the chance, buy books from people who I have met on twitter. I especially like to walk through a bookstore and go,” I know her—don’t know her—Oh, he’s nice,” and buy their books. But these are people I’ve joked around with enough to remember their names. They’ve jumped into conversations, and have helped me with ideas and information.
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Which Way To Publishing by Julie Butcher-Fedynich

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Tuesday, March 18th, 2014

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Which Way To Publishing
by Julie Butcher-Fedynich

There are so many roads you can travel in publishing today that the average writer doesn’t know which direction to go. Some of the roads look difficult. There are snakes and twisty paths that wind inside dark forests and tunnels and stuff. All sorts of unknowns make them shiver and shake.
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The Romantic Bucket List

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Tuesday, February 11th, 2014

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The Romantic Bucket List
By Julie Butcher

I’m not the person who normally thinks that everyone deserves the same things in life. After all, some of you work harder and longer and maybe after you do, there will be rainbows and puppies and butterflies. But, every single person on this earth deserves to love and to be loved in return. Every. Single. One.

There isn’t a limit on color or gender or any other darn thing people argue about. Each person on this planet should experience the magic and wonder of love. If there is a single reason that we’re put on this earth it is to love one another.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 New International Version (NIV) This is love.

Romance, however, is a whole different ball game

There’s a reason that a gerjillion romance novels are sold each year. We all have experienced love in one form or another—from partners or parents or our children—but romance is as fleeting as a firefly in summer. I’ve had some amazingly romantic moments. Once a boy took his father’s guitar and his mother’s emerald ring and knocked on every door on my street to find me to serenade and propose. Of course I was five so I didn’t appreciate it as much as I should.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we all could use a little more romance. So I give you (with the help of my lovely Facebook and Twitter friends) The Romantic Bucket List.
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A Writer’s Letter to Santa

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Tuesday, December 17th, 2013

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A Writer’s Letter to Santa

Dear Santa.

What a writer wants for Christmas isn’t quite the same as what a normal person needs. Since our minds and choice of profession are all twisty-bendy, we need more unusual presents. Stop me if I run on about how we are—but we tend to go on ranty-rants and if we lose focus for more than a millisecond, we’ll fly totally off the map.

First, we would like a comfy chair. I swear the quality of our writing depends upon our seat cushion and lower lumbar support. Really it does, Santa. You have no idea how many times characters we’ve written end up having back-aches and numb butt-cheeks because we get all mixed up in the head, or bottom—whatever.

This next present we want could be a little tricky. But, since you can visit every child in the world in twenty-four hours, we thought you could handle it. We’d like to be able to slip through the cracks in time. Writer’s honor, we won’t mess with the time stream or change history. There just aren’t enough hours in the day for us to do the whole job-thing and still make a decent word count. We’d gladly ditch the job and write if there wasn’t for needing to eat food, and to have a roof to put our chair under. Also please don’t have the time-slipping thing depend in any way upon reindeer poop. Because—eww.

Speaking of time, could we get one whole week on the beach, or in the mountains, or somewhere really nice? We’d like to be by ourselves with not a care in the world and our laptops. If you could slip a full-blown plot of awesome into our dreams the night before, that would also be way cool.
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You Can’t Make Writers Be Thankful

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Thursday, November 14th, 2013

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You Can’t Make Writers Be Thankful
Written by Julie Butcher

So now it’s November. Most of the writers I know are in the middle of NanNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month. They’re ripping out chunks of hair and typing their little fingers into nubs. The rest are still banging out scenes, trying to roast giant birds, and baking eleven kinds of pie at the same time. (Mmmm…pie)

Cold blustery weather is keeping the writer’s kids inside of the house. And they, the most reclusive, eclectic, disorganized group of people—ever, will have to venture OUT OF THE HOUSE to shop for the holidays. They are making lists people, and when a writer makes lists, trouble is on the way. Not like, I forgot to buy sugar—trouble, More like, I forgot the sugar and now the world will implode in a horrific and terrible way—trouble. Soon their little arms will flail about like Muppets on crack.

And in the midst of all this chaos, we’re still supposed to be thankful.

So, if your critique group emails you that they hate your main character so much that they want to slap his whole face, and that he should die the death of a thousand delete keys, you should probably be thankful. If it wasn’t for their precious time being spent on your manuscript, you wouldn’t get any better. It wasn’t easy for them to tell you. It certainly wasn’t a joy for you to hear. But you will write a better book now.
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