My latest video calls shenanigans on "Write every day" and three other bullshit creative writing "rules." If you're a new or soon-to-be new author trying to chop through the weeds of social media advice to the point that it's almost keeping you from actually writing, I hope you'll watch this and take it to heart.
https://youtu.be/QfkAywjLQeY
Four Fiction Writing Rules You Should Ignore
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It's the 5th anniversary of finishing the first draft of my fantasy novelette, "The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay," follow-up to my novel "Light of the Outsider." I planned on 6 weeks; it proved more painful and challenging to write and took 5 months. Time well spent. Get it directly from me (preferred) in e-book, audiobook, or handmade, limited edition chapbook editions, or anywhere you buy ebooks and audiobooks online.
https://www.mattselznick.com/item/tpaakb/#fantasybooksMy latest video for new or soon-to-be authors debuting later in life covers one of the fundamentals of indie author marketing: the 3 things (working together) you should have in place at least 6 months before your first book comes out. I hope it's useful!
https://youtu.be/TXbAcZsdYlQ#newauthorsEver feel like your writing, or especially promoting your writing, is unimportant when there's so much injustice and suffering in the world? My latest video spells out exactly why nothing could be further from the truth. Watch it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrADIzh2HC0#writinglifeThe world is on fire. I know. In my next video, I'll be up on the soapbox giving you all the reasons why it's still okay for you to write, to publish, and to promote your novels, short stories, and memoirs, especially if you're over fifty like me. Make sure you're subscribed so you know as soon as it's up!
https://www.selznick.me/ytsub#indieauthors
Matthew Wayne Selznick
Matthew Wayne Selznick is an author, podcaster, and creative services provider making things for people who like the kinds of things he makes... and helping scores of other creators, especially new authors 50 years old and above, do the same for their own creative endeavors. An independent publisher since the turn of the century and a pioneering podcaster since 2004, Selznick is the host of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, a podcast in which he shares his creative life through periodic reflections, observations, expressions of experience, and attempts at understanding in a direct, unfiltered, transparent, personal journal.
So, I'm not in the Epstein Files (what, you didn't search your name?) but y'know who is in there, trading coffee date emails with Epstein ("Hey, pal!"), and hoping to take Ghislaine Maxwell to Knicks games? The worst boss I ever had, that's who. Thinking of how he treated people, who he associated with then and now (the tech tweaker I like to call The Supervillain)... I'm utterly unsurprised. And utterly disgusted at being one degree of separation from that cesspool.
My conversation on the Creative Dynamos podcast is now the second-most popular episode. Have you heard this gabfest on writing, worldbuilding, and indie creative endeavors?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6KVH_LfXgI
Creative Dynamos 030 - DIY Zines to Immersive Fantasy, a Conversation with Matthew Wayne Selznick
First contract and payment for '26: scrubbing a site of the twine-and-spit custom theme from the last developer; now hopelessly out of date. A common request, and just one of the many ways I help authors and other creative professionals. How can I help YOU?
https://mattselznick.com/services
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