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Sep 265 min read
Owning vs Renting Digital Platforms For Writers by Aaron Saoirse
SUBTITLE: There are three pieces of digital real estate you need to own for author success BODY: Talking about writing and related...
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Sep 195 min read
Selling on the Front Lines: Why Book Fairs are Worth Your Time by Marsh Douglas
Readers go to book fairs to buy books - so why not make it yours? Most authors cringe at the idea of talking to strangers about buying...
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Sep 21, 20162 min read
Separating the Colors
Some of my best writing ideas hemorrhage from my brain while I drive or when I walk—not sure how it all works—maybe the smells, the...
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Jun 17, 20155 min read
How to Name Your Story’s Characters Like a Professional
Ever been intrigued by a good storyline or hooked by a good book description, only to be knocked out of the story by badly named...
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Jun 10, 20152 min read
Characters In Charge
My writer friends will perhaps relate with my latest dilemma. Sometimes we as authors create characters who take on a life all their own....
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Jun 3, 20155 min read
Whip It Good! Writing Erotica That Makes Your Reader Go “Mm hmm”
Since the release of Fifty Shades of Grey, the once latent genre of erotica is making more than people’s eyes raise these days. Of...
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Apr 15, 20154 min read
Following Hemingway
I just returned home from a school trip to France and Spain. Nearly every day the tour guide was pointing out this café or that where...
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Apr 1, 20156 min read
Untitled
New Year Me Resolution I do not believe or participate in New Year’s resolutions as a general rule. In the cynical playground of my...
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Jan 11, 20154 min read
Finding Your Voice
Sunday is my day to catch up on reading. Since I read everything but the Swedish newspaper, catching up could mean learning how to use...
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Oct 8, 20142 min read
The Name Game
Shoes McCheryl. My first nickname, other than the ones that are mutations of my name: Cheri, and Che. The name you give your character...
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Jun 20, 20122 min read
Thanks for the dinosaurs, Mr. Bradbury
By Reed Leon Science fiction and fantasy writer Ray Bradbury died on the night of Tuesday, June 5. He was 91. The flood of obituaries...
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May 30, 20123 min read
APRIL TREMORS
You may not have felt them, but there were several tremors in the publishing world this past month. Apple and Publishers sued for...
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Jan 18, 20122 min read
What’s YOUR Writing Style
By Bear French Poet and essayist Charles Peguy said “A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts....
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Dec 16, 20112 min read
Keeping Morgan out of my head
by Reed Leon In any one day, I read tons of news and current events. During a recent foray, I came across this article on Slate.com...
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Sep 29, 20112 min read
Treat Your Writing Like A Business
By Morgan Chilson (www.exactlywrite.net) I’ve been a freelance writer for 12 years now. Before that, I was a business reporter and then...
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Sep 12, 20111 min read
Publishing Industry Stats Encouraging
By Morgan Chilson BookStats, an extensive survey released in early August, had surprising — and happy! — numbers about the publishing...
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Sep 4, 20112 min read
What the Readers Want. . .
I went to a movie last night with my husband and four friends. We plunked down our $9.50 per ticket to see Cowboys & Aliens, spurred by a...
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Aug 9, 20102 min read
Leo To the Bone
I am Leo to the bone, a fact that my dear friend Anne never lets me forget. She lovingly teases me when I exhibit Leo-tastic™ traits,...
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Jul 18, 20103 min read
Lessons From A Legislative Policy Writer
KWI’s guest speaker at the June 26, 2010, meeting was our own Reed Holwegner, who joined our group in February of this year. Reed is a...
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Jul 11, 20102 min read
Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone
One piece of advice Morgan has shared with us is to write articles, whether for blogging, magazines, devotionals, local newspapers etc.,...
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