The AmWritingFantasy Podcast: Episode 36 – How to handle bad reviews

09/02/19 • 38 min

Not everyone will like your book, but they aren't supposed to either. You aim is to find the reader who likes the kind of fiction you write.

What happens when you do come across someone who doesn't appreciate your work and leave a bad review on Amazon? How do you tackle it?

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Not everyone will like your book, but they aren't supposed to either. You aim is to find the reader who likes the kind of fiction you write.

What happens when you do come across someone who doesn't appreciate your work and leave a bad review on Amazon? How do you tackle it?

Tune in for new episodes EVERY single Monday.

SUPPORT THE AM WRITING FANTASY PODCAST!

Please tell a fellow author about the show and visit us at Apple podcast and leave a rating and review.

Join us at www.patreon.com/AmWritingFantasy. For as little as a dollar a month, you’ll get awesome rewards and keep the Am Writing Fantasy podcast going.

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The AmWritingFantasy Podcast: Episode 35 – Should you write every day?

If you spend any time on the Internet, you'll find advise stating that writers should write every day. Is that true?

What happens when things get in the way? Are you then a failure?

In episode 35 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast, Autumn and Jesper shares their thoughts on a topic that troubles many.

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Read the full transcript below. (Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion).

Narrator (3s):

You're listening to the amwritingfantasy podcast in today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing join to best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them. Now onto the show with your hosts. Autumn Bert and Jasper Schmidt.

Jesper (32s):

Hello? I am, Jesper.

Autumn (34s):

And I'm autumn,

Jesper (39s):

this is episode 35 of the amwritingfantasy podcast. And, uh, today we're gonna talk a bit about how difficult it is to write every day. And sometimes things are just getting in the way and it can be difficult to continue to write every single day. And we're probably also gonna touch on what you can do to overcome it. I, I'm not sure we have all the answers, but I think we can probably give you some ideas on it. But, uh, yeah, I guess I guess we need to start to say sort of welcome to the new amwritingfantasy.

Uh, we're not supposed to say that. Maybe

Autumn (1m 18s):

I feel like it's new. This is our first real like dedicated podcast. So yay. Am we've got some learning to do about how we're doing this. It's a whole new set up, a whole new recording system. Um, I'm currently on the road, so I'm sitting outside next to a library in Canada, in Poult port Colborne. So if anyone is from the area listening, Hey, I love your town, it's really awesome. I love that your library. But I'm sitting outside because there's no, I don't want to disturb the other library listeners.

So if you hear a little bit of traffic and cicadas on this beautiful August day, that's because am Hey, we're just kind of winging this and learning. And they always say, never wait until the, the situation is optimal. They see this about writing all the time too. You can't wait for everything to be perfect because nothing will ever be perfect and then you'll just keep waiting. So we're doing this and I'm really excited about it actually.

Jesper (2m 16s):

Yeah. Eh, you know, we, we sort of have a, a game plan how we want to structure these podcast episode, but I sort of feel like, uh, until we get the hang of it, we run the risk of getting lost in our own new forms. We'll see how it goes today.

Autumn (2m 33s):

So everyone bear with us. This will only get better, but I hopefully you're as excited as we are to be really launching our podcast and moving away from YouTube is now our secondary channel, but we're still going to have something up there for the pupil or dedicated fans who are still on YouTube.

Jesper (2m 50s):

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean everybody can listen to the amwritingfantasy stuff anywhere. It's almost a little, yeah, if you prefer podcast or if you prefer YouTube. That's all good. The only difference is that you can't see us anymore. So we can sort of sit in our pajamas here like we talked about last week and uh, yeah, you will have no idea.

Autumn (3m 18s):

No, but I says I'm sitting outside. I am not in pajamas today. Maybe next time.

Jesper (3m 24s):

Oh, thank God. I was just thinking if we hear like a police car, something that we know why,

Autumn (3m 29s):

yeah. If I disappear for Siri, suddenly am just don't ask, but post bail. No,

Jesper (3m 38s):

no, exactly. Yeah. And we, uh, we also talked in some, a, a bit of music. They in the beginning as you can hear. And, uh, throughout the podcast we have a few other sorts of music pieces that we're going to use. And by the end of the episode there's also some music. So I will be curious to know what the, what the listeners thinks of the branding music. Uh, I mean, we, you and I autumn have been debating a bit about the, the branding music when we got it recorded. Uh, we, as you can here, we paid somebody other than ourselves to, to do the, uh, the recording of that music.

And of course...

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The AmWritingFantasy Podcast: Episode 37 – How to choose a title for your novel

You've got the story, but what do you title it? Is choosing a title for your novel pivotal? Are there any steps to pick the right title?

Autumn and Jesper hash out why choosing a title is actually very important and how to go about doing it in episode 37 of the Am Writing Fantasy podcast.

Check out the links we mention in the podcast:

https://www.adazing.com/book-title-generator/

https://www.pickfu.com/books

http://www.lulu.com/titlescorer/

https://publisherrocket.com/

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Read the full transcript below.

(Please note that it's automatically generated and while the AI is super cool, it isn't perfect. There may be misspellings or incorrect words on occasion).

Narrator (1s): You're listening to the amwritingfantasy podcast. In today's publishing landscape, you can reach fans all over the world. Query letters are a thing of the past. You don't even need a literary agent. There is nothing standing in the way of making a living from writing join to best selling authors who have self published more than 20 books between them. Now onto the show with your hosts, Autumn Birt and Jesper Schmidt.

Jesper (30s): Hello, I'm Jesper. This is episode 37 of the amwritingfantasy and we're going to talk about how to choose a title for your novel.

Autumn (43s): It should be an interesting one because I know you and I have very different techniques. Yes. For on how we choose our titles, which would make it really fun for our code books, but we'll get to that in a minute. For now it's a kind of a fun week, so for me, I've just actually gotten off the road, you know, I live like in a camper and we travel all over North America and we are finally landed back in Pennsylvania. I'm visiting my parents, which is always fun and I'm adjusting to waking up in a real bed and are better having family around and not just birds and squirrels.

So that's my life right now that it's so far so good. It's always nice. I'm catching up on sleep for some reason even though we slept really well and I love sleeping in the camper. Am just been tired the last couple of days. So yeah. You said you fell asleep on the couch or something like that? Yeah, yeah. Which is not like me. I'm not a nap person. But yesterday I couldn't, especially just seeing my parents for the first time in months and months and months and, and you know, I'm supposed to be like talking and socializing and I just passed out on their couch.

Jesper (1m 54s): How do you wear, when you're traveling around, how do you actually do laundry and stuff like that? Do you find like laundry, laundry mats? Is that Colton? Is that what you do or do you have any sort of, uh, laundry or possibility in the car? How do we actually do both?

Autumn (2m 14s): So sometimes we'll actually, there's like three choices. Sometimes we go to a town with a laundromat and go there. We used to sometimes stay at a hotel and often they will have at least a washer and dryer and some campgrounds. Especially you're a Canadian, uh, campgrounds. So Canadian national parks, you guys, Canada, you guys are awesome. I don't, there can be, not say that, but uh, often the Canadian national parks, we'll actually have a washer and dryer, which American national parks often don't even have a shower. So I can't even tell you how awesome Canadian national parks are compared to the U S ones.

Sorry guys. It's true. Why is that? Do you know what, why is that different? I don't know. I don't know if we just have more of them and they're very much, the U S ones are very much under funded. They cannot even keep up with the road upkeep where the Canadian, I've been to some of our national parks and they literally have these granite countertop wash stations with under counter lighting is where you just can go and do your dishes and they have hot showers.

I mean there are nicer than someplace, some luxury resorts I've stayed in and this is just a little pavilion to do your dishes and hang out and talk. And they often have open fireplaces. I mean, they're just amazing, amazing places. And then the U S ones, they're often, you know, struggling to stay open, struggling to take care of their finances, don't even have enough interpreters and park Rangers. So mostly budget, uh, Canada seems to take their national parks really seriously. And they just had their anniversary.

I can't remember if it was the Centennial or 150 years on their national parks. And they put a ton of money and made all the national parks in Canada free in 2018 and that was, I just can't ima...