Tag Archive | Informative
Descrambling Scrivener: Part II…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
by Judy Penz Sheluk In Descrambling Scrivener: Part I, I promised to tell you what I’d learned from Gwen Hernandez’s excellent course on Scrivener. Here are the basics: Creating a new project: Think of Scrivener as a three-ring binder where you can store your writing,…
9 Tips For Using Fiction Techniques When Writing Memoir…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
By Michael Mohr on The Creative Penn: Memoir is much more than just writing down an aspect of your life story. Intro by Joanna Penn: In fact, if you do that, it’s unlikely that anyone will read it. Because people want a character they can empathize…
Why You Have To Promote What You Do, Everyday…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
By Derek Haines on Just Publishing Advice: Everything online is competitive, so you need to promote to succeed There are no shortcuts to success in any form of business. You need to have a very good product and have a plan for how you are going to…
Book Description Basics…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
By KS Brooks on Indies Unlimited site: The number one problem we run into during the vetting process here at Indies Unlimited is a book’s description, also sometimes known as the book sales pitch or the book blurb. Too long, too short, too detailed, too vague,…
Loglines and Pitches – How to Reduce Your Book to a Sentence…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
by Erica Verrillo on Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity: When my agent asked me for loglines for my book, I had no idea what she was talking about. I pretended I understood. (FYI, “faking it” is a required skill for writers.) Once I was…
Win Amazon vouchers in the Electric Eclectic Prize Draw…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
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Here’s how to check which apps have access to your Facebook account—and delete them…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Further to my blog linking post on 15th March Facebook doesn’t make it easy to delete your account – Here’s How to do it Please also read the following from Mike Murphy on Quartz Media LLC: If you’ve been on Facebook for a while, you’ve…
How Can Authors Protect Their Works in Progress?
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
by RJ Crayton on Indies Unlimited: This question gets asked by readers a lot here at Indies Unlimited: How can I protect my manuscript from being taken by someone I let read it? And as common as the question is, it’s an easy answer: you can’t.…
Writing About Death, Dying, And Grief With Dr Karen Wyatt…
Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog:
Extract from an article on The Creative Penn: Death is an inevitable part of life. We spend a lot of time trying to forget that fact but as writers, our job is to face the difficult things and write about them anyway. We can heal…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 