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Kindle Vella Bonus Results: The Ultimate Teardown

The May bonus report has me rethinking the whole side hustle — I no longer recommend Amazon Kindle Vella to every eligible writer in search of a side hustle. There’s still gold left in those hills, but you may have to dig deeper than you did when I wrote my first story on how to earn Vella bonuses earlier this year: The Amazon Vella Bonus Hustle If you can publish short episodes fast, there’s a bonus waiting for youmedium.com

Side Hustle

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Kindle Vella Bonus Results: The Ultimate Teardown
Kindle Vella Bonus Results: The Ultimate Teardown

Published in The Writing Cooperative

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You Can Earn a Full-Time Living Writing Fiction

I earn more writing novels than short stories — and you probably will too — For several years now, I’ve been earning the majority of my income by writing fiction under a variety of pen names you’ve never heard of. And it isn’t anything special about me. Thousands of authors you’ve never heard of are quietly making a full-time living creating fiction. True, thousands of…

Writing

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You Can Earn a Full-Time Living Writing Fiction
You Can Earn a Full-Time Living Writing Fiction

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An Index To My World; For My Very Latest Stories, Please Scroll Down

A guide to some of my most popular and useful stories — Birds, Birding, Nature Writing, Self-Publishing, and the Full-time Author Money, Investing, Side Hustles Crystal Magick, Practical Magick, and Manifesting Other Favorites Fiction

Birds

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A guide to my most popular stories
A guide to my most popular stories

An Index To My World; For My Very Latest Stories, Please Scroll Down

A guide to some of my most popular and useful stories

Birds, Birding, Nature
Writing, Self-Publishing, and the Full-time Author
Money, Investing, Side Hustles
Crystal Magick, Practical Magick, and Manifesting
Other Favorites
Fiction
Ringtail Lemur Mother & Child Photographed by the Author in Berenty, Madagascar, 2007

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15 hours ago

No More Mr. Nice Lady

If you want to compromise with my rights, you don’t believe I have rights — and I’m calling you on it — Today’s official block-hammer goes to the nice lady who thinks American women should find some middle ground with those people who already ruled we have no right to privacy. Apparently, as reasonable people, the nice lady believes we should be able to see that those other people hold deep and…

Politics

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No More Mr. Nice Lady
No More Mr. Nice Lady

1 day ago

My Membership Drive With Angry Alligators

Watch your ankles, there are six gators in this picture — Hey, I don’t want to be an alligator loitering in the grass to snap at any ankles, but isn’t it a kind of e̶x̶p̶l̶e̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶d̶e̶l̶e̶t̶e̶d̶ thing to ask your writers to sell memberships to supplement the absolutely terrible pay rate on this platform — but then put a big old…

Photography

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My Membership Drive With Angry Alligators
My Membership Drive With Angry Alligators

Published in Writers’ Blokke

·2 days ago

Three Act Structure Is World’s Dumbest Writing Advice

Don’t care if Aristotle said it, don’t care if your English teacher did too — Ever so often, a Twitter or Discord thread gets started on the topic of, “What’s the dumbest writing advice you’ve ever heard?” Boy, oh boy, does that open the floodgates. …

Writing

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Three Act Structure Is World’s Dumbest Writing Advice
Three Act Structure Is World’s Dumbest Writing Advice

Published in Writers’ Blokke

·Jun 22

The One Thing You Must Do Before You Start Writing Your Book

Don’t write one word before you do this — As a pantser — in polite parlance, a discovery writer — I often start a novel with a tiny seed that will grow into a mighty oak. A scrap of song. A faded photograph. A half-remembered dream. A lot of us start like that. We’re easily inspired. We sit down…

Writing

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The One Thing You Must Do Before You Start Writing Your Book
The One Thing You Must Do Before You Start Writing Your Book

Jun 20

Butterflies and Moths Are Pollinators Too

The birds and the bees can’t grab all the glory — It’s that magical time of year where, once again, we celebrate the pollinators who keep our farms producing and our grocery stores stocked — at least insofar as they are stocked this time of century. Yes, it’s Pollinator Week 2022. As I said last year, we love our pollinators —…

Pollinators

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Butterflies and Moths Are Pollinators Too
Butterflies and Moths Are Pollinators Too

Jun 20

Don’t Miss This All-Star (All Planet?) Lineup!

I just saw all 5 classic planets, and maybe you can too… — It’s possible again this week to observe all the classical planets if you get up early enough — about half an hour before dawn. Don’t recall now if I posted a few weeks ago when I did this, but I’d hate you to miss this lovely opportunity. It’s especially cute…

Astronomy

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Don’t Miss This All-Star (All Planet?) Lineup!
Don’t Miss This All-Star (All Planet?) Lineup!

Jun 19

True Love Is a Beautiful Thing

When a lovebird loves a chubby older cockatiel… — These two just hate being photographed doing anything cute. Often, all I have to do is raise the camera and that’s it. Party over. I got lucky the other day because Nyota the Peach-faced Lovebird and Boobear the White-Faced Cockatiel got into a kind of preening trance. They were so…

Pets

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True Love Is a Beautiful Thing
True Love Is a Beautiful Thing
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