Indie Author Confidential 12: Indie Author Confidential, #12

By M.L. Ronn

The ground-breaking, behind-the-scenes look at a working writer continues with Vol. 12!

 

Prolific writer M.L. Ronn (Michael La Ronn) shares his lessons learned on his journey to become a successful writer. You'll discover writing, marketing, business, and other miscellaneous tips that you don't hear every day.

 

Covered in this volume:

•    A change in Michael's strategy
•    Lessons in character tagging, a little-known but effective craft technique
•    A game-changing AI app that Michael built
•    Michael's thoughts on AI art

 

The information in this book is what writers discuss over beers at writing conferences. You may find it useful on your journey to becoming a successful writer. It just might make you more money and help you satisfy your readers, too.

 

Are you ready to dive into the world of Indie Author Confidential?

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Author Level Up LLC
• Release date: Sep 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9798885511322

M.L. Ronn

Science fiction and fantasy on the wild side! M.L. Ronn (Michael La Ronn) is the author of many science fiction and fantasy novels including the Modern Necromancy, The Last Dragon Lord, and Sword Bear Chronicle series. In 2012, a life-threatening illness made him realize that storytelling was his #1 passion. He’s devoted his life to writing ever since, making up whatever story makes him fall out of his chair laughing the hardest. Every day.

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Indie Author Confidential 12

INDIE AUTHOR CONFIDENTIAL 12

SECRETS NO ONE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT BEING A WRITER

M.L. RONN

Copyright 2023 © M.L. Ronn. All rights reserved.

No AI was used to write this book.

Published by Author Level Up LLC.

Version 1.0

Cover Design by Pixelstudio.

Cover Art by jasoshulwathon.

Editing by BZ Hercules.

Time Period Covered in This Book: Q1 2023

Special thank you to the following people on Patreon who supported this book: Matty Dalrymple, BB Dee, Michael Guishard, Jon Howard, Sheila Klein, Olivia Williams, and Ryan Zee.

Some links in this book contain affiliate links. If you purchase books and services through these links, I receive a small commission at no cost to you. You are under no obligation to use these links, but thank you if you do!

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For avoidance of doubt, Author reserves the rights, and no one has the rights to reproduce and/or otherwise use this work in any manner for purposes of training artificial intelligence technologies to generate text, including without limitation, technologies that are capable of generating works in the same style or genre as the work without the Author’s specific and express permission to do so. Nor does any person or company have the right to sublicense others to reproduce and/or otherwise use this work in any manner for purposes of training artificial intelligence technologies to generate text without Author’s specific and express permission.

CONTENTS

About This Series

Introduction

Become a Writing Master

Strategy Change: Become a Writing Master

Studying the Mega Bestsellers More Closely

Writing a Journalistic Magazine Article

Lessons in Character Tagging

Craft Lessons from Spyro the Dragon

Become a Technology and Data-Driven Writer

Cold Hard Facts About GPT-3’s Editing Accuracy

Accessibility for Authors

Shutterstock’s AI Art Generator

Status Update on AI Proofreading Application

Renting a Macintosh in the Cloud

Looking Forward

The Growing Backlash Against AI Art

The Promise of ChatGPT

Strategic Defense in the Age of AI

Speaking at Superstars 2023

Content Created While Writing This Book

Read the Next Volume

Meet M.L. Ronn

More Books by M.L. Ronn

ABOUT THIS SERIES

This isn't your typical writing self-help book. This series is a compilation of lessons learned from an indie author trying to walk the path to success. Follow author M.L. Ronn (Michael La Ronn) as he navigates what it means to master the craft of writing, marketing, and running a profitable publishing business. Learn from his successes and failures, and learn about things that most successful authors only talk about behind the scenes.

To read all the collected volumes of this series in an anthology, visit www.authorlevelup.com/confidential.

INTRODUCTION

Life happens in cycles. This quarter, I overextended myself and found myself traveling for a lot of events. I was so occupied that I missed my deadline for publishing this volume.

There were times in the past three years where I had so much to write for the Indie Author Confidential series that I filled volumes early. In fact, I would write so much that I would have to save content for future volumes. So, I’m not surprised that I find myself on the opposite end of the production spectrum.

What ultimately matters is that I deliver, so here I am. People reading this volume five years from now won’t know the difference so long as the volume is published.

My Core Strategic Priorities

As a refresher, my mission is to create content that entertains and/or educates my audience, preferably both, and to remain nimble in an ever-changing industry. I do this by focusing on three strategic priorities:

Become a world-class content creator

Become a technology and data-driven writer

Become the writer of the future (looking forward)

Stay tuned for a minor strategy course-correction.

What’s in This Volume

In the Become a World-Class Content Creator section (now renamed to Become a Writing Master), I explain the reason for the name change, new insights I