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Thursday, August 3, 2023

Travelling to promote a book or to promote yourself

 

Angela Lansbury at the Hayes Conference Centre, Writers' Summer School.


You should not be posting while you are travelling, but after your return. Why?

a) You might be telling potential burglars that your house is empty.

Your insurance company might decline to pay because you had advertised that your house is empty.


Before you set off, you should have clear in mind

a) What you want to tell others

b) What you wish to learn from the people you meet and the destination.

Many novelists and short story writers take trips to gather information for plots, about characters, places, and plot twists. Simple misunderstandings can be the twist in a short story or chapter. 

Somerset Maugham found many of the plots for his stories from talking to people in the bar of the hotel where he was writer in residence.

Somerset Maugham was prolific. 

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Read more by clicking the look inside on the book by Angela Lansbury

https://www.amazon.com/Improve-Your-English-alliteration-assonance/dp/1675046840

Angela Lansbury's book Improve Your English with alliteration, assonance and rhyme is on Amazon.

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