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Successful Authors and Their Bad Habits
Originally posted on Following The Dream:
Hello Friends! I came across a post from Literary Agent and Author Rachelle Gardner, that I thought was so great I had to share it. The post is titled “7 (Bad) Habits of Highly Successful Authors” and can be found on the blog “Books and Such“. http://www.booksandsuch.com/blog/highly-successful-authors/ I found…
Social Media Marketing: Necessary or Distraction?
Originally posted on Legends of Windemere:
Yahoo Image Search (Funny thing: Imogen Bell Writing posted on this topic this morning. So, check out her list of tips here.) This week I’m going to go into a few social media sites. I think I did this once before when I had started, but I think I’ve…
Who reads our books?
Originally posted on Nicholas C. Rossis:
I found on the Passive Voice a reference to the latest Harris Poll concerning Americans’ reading habits. The upshot was that Americans who read more electronically, read more, period. There is, however, a wealth of useful information to be gleamed from the report. So, who exactly are our readers? And how much…
to Write is to Serve
Originally posted on chrismcmullen:
Authors write books. A book is a product. But authorship entails more than just making a product. Authorship is a service. Ultimately, writers want their work to be read, and therefore they serve an audience. Please the audience and gain more readers. The first step is for the content to please…
Facing the might of a High School Creative Writing Class…. #HSWriters #writingtips
Originally posted on Jami Gray's Blog:
The last month and half have spun by in a whirlwind. As you could see from the previous posts, I had Shadow’s Moon hit the shelves and coming up in two weeks, Hunted By The Past is making its grand debut. In between these, I attended the Romantic…
AUTHORS: Is “Showing” versus “Telling” Truly Either-Or?
Originally posted on Creative Writing with the Crimson League:
Today I am continuing a series of post about opposites in fiction that writers often consider to be cases of “either-or” but in reality may be seen to be the ends of a spectrum instead. By the very nature of saying that a spectrum exists, there…
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