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Break Through the NaNoWriMo Brick Wall with this Super Simple Technique
Originally posted on The Sprint Shack:
Every NaNoWriMo journey has its ups and downs, and one of the hardest downs to overcome is the Brick Wall, also known as Writer’s Block or, to anyone experiencing it, Despair. It’s a common problem around this point every NaNoWriMo. You’ve been going full steam ahead with your work-in-progress…
Should Writing Success Always Be Counted in Money?
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
I’m delighted to hand over my blog today to American writer Cara Lopez Lee who should win the prize for the best ever title of a memoir: They Only Eat Their Husbands. This is the blurb: After a lover threatens to kill her, twenty-six-year-old Cara Lopez Lee runs away…
Insights after a KCD promo and tips on Thunderclap
Originally posted on Effrosyni's blog:
As promised, I’m sending out this post today to share with you my experiences with my very first KCD promo. I also have some insights and tips for you where it comes to Thunderclap. In the past, I’d only run 3 FREE promos which had yielded anything between 500-5,000…
Writing Tip: Parallelism
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
I came across this on Online Writing Jobs and thought you’d enjoy it! This month, it is Pearseus: Rise of the Prince that’s on sale. Read the second book in my best-selling epic fantasy series for only 99c (no, you don’t need to have read the first book to make sense of…
Can a GENIUS thrive in today’s self-publishing world?
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
GENIUS WRITERS By genius, I don’t mean as measured by an IQ or any other kind of test. I mean qualitatively, someone with an exceptional natural ability. (Look up the word in a thorough dictionary and you might be surprised at some of the definitions of this word. I received a…
Marketing the Wrong Element of Your Book
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
THEMES & TOPICS The big challenge of book marketing is finding what works for you. It’s often not just what you do, but how you do it. The difference between a successful or unsuccessful marketing technique may lie in something incredibly simple. Like which element of your book you mention. You…
Read More
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
READ MORE Reading more is a good thing, of course. I highly recommend it. But that’s not the focus of my post. Every writer would love to have more readers. They are so hard to come by. Yet those Read More links and buttons are spurious. Open your WordPress reader. Some…
Hard-core Manuscript Formatting
Originally posted on Lara Willard:
Or, Making your Typesetter Love You. This is Part Two on my series of MS Formatting. For the basics of MS formatting, read Part One here. Get a template here in Part Three. Remove all double spaces. First, find and replace all double spaces with single spaces. Each period should be followed…
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Anybody use Disqus?
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
DISQUS I read this fascinating and rather lengthy article about Amazon recently: http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/955189-129/the-perks-pitfalls-and-paradoxes-of I rather enjoyed reading the article, but it concluded with a negative note about the quality of self-publishing. So I decided to leave a comment on this. (Not an easy comment to make, I felt, as there are…