Making the decision to write a book, a magazine article or even a blog is an exciting moment filled with big thoughts and even dreams. But reality sets in the first moment that you sit down to actually write. Where do you start? Think of a carpenter trying to build…
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Ways to re-frame and resolve writer’s block.
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It is sometimes difficult for authors to realize that successful authors don’t simply promote books, they are promoting a brand. It is the brand that they then use to promote books and other offerings.
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Why do authors use pseudonyms? Check out the YouTube video for answers
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Grammar still matters. If you are a writer and publish anything: a book, article, blog post, FB post, and even a Tweet without editing it first, you will cost yourself readers. Social media is overrun by misspelled words, mismatched tenses, and word choice problems. I didn’t even mention punctuation.
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In a previous post, I answered the common question, ‘What is an Author Platform?’, and to some extent why a writer needs one. This post will discuss the ‘HOW’. I will talk about first steps and some of the tools that can help you along this path, it’s an amazing journey, and often the difference between writing and being able to make a living writing.
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If the rest of you are anything like me, older writers have long lamented the loss of the great independent bookstores. The kind of place that makes you feel like you can actually smell the history written within the books on the shelves. Like a library where you don’t get shushed, or given that look ( you know the look I am talking about). Much of that loss, of course, was caused by the book mega-stores like Barnes and Noble and Borders.
Continue Reading →Do you have to tools to write well? Do your tools make things simpler or harder?
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I keep seeing posts and questions in Facebook writer’s groups asking if they can still write a book if they don’t read. For a word geek like me, the first reaction is something like, “yeah, but it’ll suck.” But as I have contemplated this question, I realize that that is a rush to judgment.
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