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How to Write & Publish Books of Blues. Hopefully.

How to Write & Publish Books of Blues. Hopefully.

Nat Finn's first series of novels / new books

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Fifth "First" Book

Coming back out of hibernation to go back down the rabbit hole called Books of Blues

December 28, 2018 By Finn Leave a Comment

Original: 2010/1/15… It’s taken a couple days to get back into the groove back home. I’ve been gone four weeks and the world feels like it’s passed me by. Thus is the tempo of digital marketing. Therein it goes. I just finished working on wearing out my running shoes. And I just finished killing some […]

Filed Under: Fifth "First" Book

First step / trick / advice to writing a book / novel

June 20, 2017 By Finn Leave a Comment

I have 2 books scattered unevenly throughout 5 books. I’m fresh off a near-6 year tech Odyssey and back on the shores of Ithaca. I still see the writing rust speckled about the floor when I get up from the table after another session. With all that little authority, the first piece of advice I […]

Filed Under: Fifth "First" Book, How to write a book

A Through Line (or Spine) in a story. How I heard it.

June 20, 2017 By Finn Leave a Comment

Over the weekend I drafted out the top-level chapter names for the fifth-first book, again. I read them off to Katie and explained a little bit about each. She lit up like a Christmas tree and exclaimed: “Yeah. I really like how the through lines work.” I nodded, agreed, thanked her, and replied with an […]

Filed Under: Fifth "First" Book, How to write a book

[Review] “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed.

March 6, 2017 By Finn Leave a Comment

Last Sunday, Katie and I were bumming up and down Main St. in Pleasanton when she found a little book shop nestled in an old, iconic house. Town Center Books, I discovered the name when I went to pay. Pretty cool little niche place. Our Barnes & Noble membership didn’t work there and there was […]

Filed Under: Books, Fifth "First" Book Tagged With: reviews

Allergies for new Bay Area Residents within 3 years of moving here? It happened to us, too. But…

February 22, 2017 By Finn Leave a Comment

One of the things we were told to prepare for when moving from Chicago to San Francisco was that we were going to develop allergies within three years, but that we’d adjust. We had doctors tell us that, friends tell us that, blogs tell us that… But we dismissed the warnings because we thought we […]

Filed Under: Bay Area, East bay, Fifth "First" Book Tagged With: Bella, Dublin, East bay

“Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” vs “Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By).”

February 10, 2017 By Finn Leave a Comment

I was writing the beginning of the ending of the fifth first book when, before I realized it, I had been singing Will the Circle Be Unbroken? for over an hour. Hell, maybe a day? Week? It just crept up on me as I’ve been thinking through where I was going with this story. Well, […]

Filed Under: Book of Blues, Fifth "First" Book, Research, Songs

TV & Media #FOMO but we turned off the TV at 8pm tonight in order to read and write and create.

January 25, 2017 By Finn Leave a Comment

chromecast makes a great fomo fox

It’s 9:03 pm on a Tuesday night in mid-late January. Katie’s on the phone with her brother discussing what to read next: Thoreau, Kierkegaard, Asimov, McCarthy…Brian Sanderson’s Mistborn appears to be the winner. I’ve got a stack to read on my farmer’s table… …and a stack of what I’m currently reading next to my side […]

Filed Under: Distractions, Fears, Fifth "First" Book

From BiziPorts back to the beginning

January 20, 2017 By Finn Leave a Comment

We told clients nearly two weeks ago that we’re mothballing BiziPorts. Once that happened, gravity felt weaker. I could stand taller, sleep longer, and walk farther. So, while that’s mothballed, it’s time to get to what I’ve been itching to get to since before we started BiziPorts: Books of Blues. The first book of blues […]

Filed Under: Book of Blues, Fifth "First" Book

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