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Lindsay Schopfer

Lindsay Schopfer

I asked 750k People What Would Convince them to Buy an Unknown Author’s Book

A couple of months ago, I posted a single question in several Facebook groups for writers and authors with a total membership of over…

5 min readJun 5, 2023

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I asked 750k People What Would Convince them to Buy an Unknown Author’s Book

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Lindsay Schopfer

Five Things I Learned While Writing The Adventures of Keltin Moore

It’s been over ten years since I first started writing my series about the adventures of a professional monster hunter. With the recent…

3 min readMay 31, 2023

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Five Things I Learned While Writing The Adventures of Keltin Moore

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Lindsay Schopfer

Tips for Handling Writer Blindness

Have you become blind to the mistakes in your manuscript? Are you in that limbo of eternal editing without really getting anything done…

2 min readMar 1, 2023

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Tips for Handling Writer Blindness

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Lindsay Schopfer

The Style of Hellboy Covers a Multitude of Sins

I recently finished reading all six volumes of the collected Hellboy library editions as well as the complete Hellboy in Hell compilation…

4 min readJan 27, 2023

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The Style of Hellboy Covers a Multitude of Sins

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Lindsay Schopfer

The Benefits of Outlines

I am not an organized writer. I rarely have a detailed plan before I start a story, and what little pre-planning I do have is almost never…

2 min readSep 27, 2022

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The Benefits of Outlines

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Lindsay Schopfer

The Writer’s Struggle to Read for Pleasure

One of the best known tips for writers is to be well-read. This has been said hundreds of ways by hundreds of authors, poets, and…

3 min readAug 29, 2022

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The Writer’s Struggle to Read for Pleasure

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Lindsay Schopfer

Trial and Error

Everyone loves getting something right the first time. Like cruising through a series of green lights all in a row, a steady momentum built…

3 min readJul 27, 2022

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Trial and Error

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Lindsay Schopfer

10 Things You Don’t Want to Hear At Your Book Launch Party

1. I’m pretty sure I’ve already read this book.

2 min readMay 31, 2022

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10 Things You Don’t Want to Hear At Your Book Launch Party

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Lindsay Schopfer

Good Setting Description Depends on Your Genre

Too often, the concept of “good writing” for prose fiction is overly simplified by well-meaning industry professionals.

2 min readApr 29, 2022

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Good Setting Description Depends on Your Genre

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Lindsay Schopfer

It Took Me A Year To Make My First Video Essay

It had been a dream of mine for years. I’d watch YouTube videos, thinking of my abilities as a writer as well as my theater experience and…

3 min readApr 27, 2022

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It Took Me A Year To Make My First Video Essay

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Lindsay Schopfer

Lindsay Schopfer

Lindsay Schopfer is the award-winning fantasy author of "The Adventures of Keltin Moore" and a top-rated creative writing instructor.

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