There were puns aplenty with the news that older women dominate the growth in self-publishing. Big cheer to Alison Baverstock, associate professor in publishing at Kingston University in England, for her research which found:
Over at Write-Track towers we’ve launched head long into trying to tell the world about our start-up. Part of this involves engaging with the scary world of pitching for funding and whilst that doesn’t come too easily to introverted types like us it’s been useful in ordering our thoughts and telling our story. With this in mind, we thought we’d share a bit of background on where Write-Track’s come from – and where we’re heading.
Our second week has settled into a routine as new users join and set goals, and current users track their writing. Apart from the occasional vortex, things are as they should be. It gave Bec a chance to leave her desk and go into the world and talk to real people. Here she runs through some of the week’s writerly activity.
After years of dreaming and months of tweaking on Friday 12 September 2014 Write-Track was unveiled for beta testing. We emailed the patient writerly types on our launch list and kept our fingers tightly crossed. Here are a few snippets of how the first week went – it involved missing robots, some superstar goal-achieving writers - and the occasional vortex.
On the Write Track is written by Bec Evans and Chris Smith, founders of Write-Track, the pocket writing coach for writers of all types.
We talk to top writers about how they write. We interview experts about how to break into writing. We collate the latest thinking and research on writing habits and behaviours.
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