Polish Your Post: 10 Tips for Better Blogging
This is a post by Robert Morris Writing blogs that will capture the hearts of your audience and influence their standings on a particular subject doesn’t only require writing talent. There are many blogs people read, comment on and subscribe to, but what about the lack of editing and proofreading. We all try to write engaging and inviting content, but don’t offend your readers by not spending time to correct the obvious mistakes. In order to hit the mark, a blog post requires a great deal of thinking and planning, as well as some...
read more8 Tasty Tips to get the Creative Juices Flowing
This is a post by Leslie Anglesey For some writers being creative comes naturally and effortlessly. There seems to be a never ending supply. For others, it’s not that easy and they struggle for each brilliant idea that pops into their head. This article gives you eight of my personal juicy tips for arousing creativity in writing when there isn’t much to go around. #1: Define Your Relationship with Creativity In your world is creativity something you directly control, or not? Make no mistake, there are trillions of neural connections ready...
read moreTen Tools You Can Tailor to Any Marketing Strategy
This is a post by Inna Kraner, Managing Editor for The Expert Institue A common expience when launching a company is the desire to track data. You might have started by tracking everything in Excel, making hundreds of calls every day, sending emails by the thousands, or making notes on every interaction in painful detail. In short, wasting too much time trying to keep your data organized. Below is a list for the ten amazing products that can save you from deathly monotonous tasks and help your marketing team elevate data and help transform...
read moreTips to Trick Yourself Into Writing Faster
This is a guest post by Alex Strike I bet, this situation will sound familiar for everyone who writes, no matter what they write – blog posts, essays, short stories, articles, or books. One day sitting at the computer, or in front of a clean white sheet of paper, you try to start writing, but nothing comes out! Words do not come to your mind, sentences look stupid and ridiculous, paragraphs do not appear. You are stuck! You might try to distract yourself somehow in order to find inspiration. Check your e-mail, go to Facebook, look for funny...
read moreRide the Reading Wave to a Bigger and Better Readership
This is a guest post by Rob Tucker of Readwave Let’s start by facing up to a hard truth. For writers, building up a fan-base around your work is tough; significantly more difficult than it is for musicians, for instance. Growing a readership is the writer equivalent of having a girlfriend/boyfriend. It is time-consuming and hard work but it’s also exciting and incredibly fulfilling. Without an audience, your life as a writer will be strangely empty. How is it exactly that talented author get readers in the digital age? Short is sweet Even...
read moreReviews: Karma for the Soul
This is a guest post by Naomi Leadbeater From time to time, I read books. Who knew? This time, I’m reading Untimed by Andy Gavin, perhaps aptly named as I was planning to post the review yesterday, but due to unforeseen events (read: Dodge meet Ram meets my car) I clearly didn’t get it done. This post will also be a review about how to review, and why it is so important for authors to get book reviews. From time to time, I also do this weird thing called reviewing books. Many of you probably wonder why I do it so much. Part of...
read moreThe Problem with First-Person Narratives – Beware the I-Bombs!
This is a Post by Novel Publicity Writing Coach, Lane Diamond Read on to learn more about our new writing coach services and how they can help you take your writing to new heights! Originally published at www.LaneDiamond.com. As both a reader and an editor, I see more and more first-person narratives these days. It likely has something to do with the old guard – the “gatekeepers” – not influencing as many books, as the indie publishing revolution continues. Once upon a time, while shopping my manuscript for Forgive Me, Alex around to...
read moreInfinite-Verb Phrases Give Readers an “Act without an Actor”
This is a Post by Novel Publicity Writing Coach, Lane Diamond Read on to learn more about our new writing coach services and how they can help you take your writing to new heights! Originally published at www.LaneDiamond.com. Too many writers use infinite-verb phrases to open sentences. Way too often. Yes, that’s a strong statement, but I’ll stand by it, because I believe we writers harm our cause when we attempt to rationalize bad writing. The old excuse, “Well, lots of writers do it,” is no excuse. Lots of people do lots of bad...
read moreEven Minor Characters Are Critical
This is a Post by Novel Publicity Writing Coach, Lane Diamond Read on to learn more about our new writing coach services and how they can help you take your writing to new heights! Originally published at www.LaneDiamond.com. As an author, you shouldn’t pass up too many opportunities to heighten the reading experience for your loyal fans – to tug at their emotions. If you really want to keep them glued to the page, give them something to sink their hearts and souls into as often as possible. One of the places where many writers fail to...
read moreSHOW, DON’T TELL: With Words as Paint and the Page as Canvas, Paint Us a Picture
This is a Post by Novel Publicity Writing Coach, Lane Diamond Read on to learn more about our new writing coach services and how they can help you take your writing to new heights! This is part three of Lane Diamond’s Show, Don’t Tell series, 0riginally published at www.LaneDiamond.com. This is a continuation of my last post, though I focus on a slightly different element of “SHOW, DON’T TELL.” Those three little words constitute one of the High Commandments of effective writing. It sounds so easy, doesn’t it? Yet it...
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