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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,…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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By Lisa Tener – Book Writing Coach One strategy that can help catapult your book to page one on Amazon results are your Amazon book reviews. Of course, your book needs to be categorized well on Amazon (with the right keywords and categories). It needs…

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By Anne R. Allen “Agnes Gooch,” “Mr. McCawber,” “Albus Dumbledore”: memorable names of memorable characters. How can writers come up with character names that readers will never forget? In his painfully funny 2006 book, Famous Writing School, a Novel, Stephen Carter’s writing teacher-protagonist advises his students…