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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

@inventingreality.bsky.social

I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com

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6 Tips to Ensure a Successful Book Reading • How to arrange a public book reading/signingJust because you’ve published a book, don’t expect to get invitations to do book readings. You’ll have to arrange them yourself. The good news is you’l…

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04.03.2026 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Marketing scams aimed at writers via email are on the uptick. Here’s the latest list of scammers. Don’t click on their email/text; do send it to spam:
lillysmart1 <lillyusmart1@gmail.com>
Rohan Khan <khannaon3@gmail.com>
#bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #booksky

04.03.2026 14:40 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Five Great Quotations about Publishing “I think I am starving for publication: I love to get published; it maddens me not to get published. I feel at times like getting every publisher in the world by the scruff of the neck, forcin…

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04.03.2026 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Meet these great YA (Young Adult) indie authors at the YA Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #ya #writingcommunity #authorsky go.bsky.app/B4ugViY

04.03.2026 14:16 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Avoid writing sin of authorial intrusion Have you ever read a book where the author suddenly jolted you out of the storyline with an aside or comment that just doesn’t flow with the rest of the work? When the book’s writer – ra…

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04.03.2026 14:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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What is a Writer’s ‘Natural’ Temperament? An image of a novelist as a melancholy, moody artists who dons black as penning books during fits of insomnia or alcoholic inspiration pervades much of our society’s view of writers. No doubt …

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04.03.2026 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why self-published authors must keep records As a writer, you undoubtedly keep every one of your writings. You’ve got journals full of story ideas, descriptions and story outlines, you’ve got great lines and character names scribbled on scrap…

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04.03.2026 13:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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#Storytelling #writingcommunity #amwritingfantasy #mysterywriter #writerscorner

04.03.2026 13:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Ultimate Guide to Understanding POV in Storytelling! #indieauthor #writerhelp #writerslift #amwriting #writingcommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872323

04.03.2026 13:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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7 Tips for Writing Story Characters • What are your characters’ motivations? • Do your characters’ actions arise from their needs? • Downgrade your minor characters Not all characters in…

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04.03.2026 13:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Writing Inspiration: It’s okay to do less Write a little less. Don’t lower your standards but lower your output so you can spend time meeting with your friends or being with your family. After all, you can’t be a good writer if you find it…

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04.03.2026 13:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What is a scene and a vignette in fiction? A major division of a story is a scene, in which a dramatic action occurs, usually involving the same characters at a single locale. Stories typically consist of several scenes, all of which corres…

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04.03.2026 12:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Plot Story Using Dramatic Throughlines When plotting out your story, one useful way of doing so is thinking about in terms of dramatic throughlines.Dramatic throughlines are what happens to a character in a story. Generally, t…

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04.03.2026 11:10 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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7 Tips on Writing Your Story’s Ending • Descend the mountain with falling action • Three potential ways to end your story  • Make final words of your story count • Twist endings best avoided in storytelling  The reality is that twist e…

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04.03.2026 10:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Writing Prompt: Observe Your Thoughts Suffering from writer’s block or need to add some spunk to your writing? The problem may be that you need to change up your routine. To that end, try this tip: For 10 minutes, write down the t…

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04.03.2026 09:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Writing Affirmation: I regret nothing I write All too often when beginning authors think about what they’re writing, they scowl and wonder why they even bother. Their writing, they surmise, is horrible – poor cadence, clunky dialogue, dul…

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04.03.2026 08:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Writing Affirmation: I write to find strength Life can be difficult, and all too often during those times we feel that there’s no way out or that no one is there for us. In the face of such troubles, we can find our energy waning, our desire t…

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04.03.2026 07:10 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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5 Great Quotations about Poetry “Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.” – John Barton“…have good sentences in your ears.” – Jane Kenyon“Poems are never finished &#…

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04.03.2026 06:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How NOT to Create a Protagonist You can have the greatest plot in the world, discuss a deep, universal theme, and write crisp, taut sentences, but if the reader can’t connect to your protagonist, the story will fall flat. Si…

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04.03.2026 05:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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6 Editing Tips for Tightening Your Writing • Use active voiceVerbs give sentences and books vibrancy. When too many of them in a story are passive or weak, the writing sounds drab.• Cut begin fallacyOne way to tighten your writing is to eli…

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04.03.2026 04:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Promote Your Book for Free on Various Websites A number of websites will promote you book for free, usually by posting a thumbnail of the cover and a brief blurb about it. Some of these sites also let you post press releases about your boo…

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04.03.2026 03:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Four Writing Prompts: Guilt Good stories center on the clashing of characters’ goals and motivations. Sometimes a character’s goals and motivations arise from feelings of having done something wrong. Here are four writin…

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04.03.2026 03:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to Create Your Story's Characters #writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872404

04.03.2026 03:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Avoid Starting Story with a Cliché Opening For writers, the challenge with most people who like to read is that they read a lot. They’ve seen all kinds of plots, protagonists, villains and settings. Worse, even if they prefer specific …

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04.03.2026 03:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Make Final Words of Your Story Count After the story’s falling action comes another brief section that wraps up the story. This conclusion is known as the denouement (pronounced “day-noo-mon”).During the denouement – …

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04.03.2026 03:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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6 Tips to Ensure a Successful Book Reading • How to arrange a public book reading/signingJust because you’ve published a book, don’t expect to get invitations to do book readings. You’ll have to arrange them yourself. The good news is you’l…

#writerslift #amwriting #writingcommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...

04.03.2026 02:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Five Great Quotations about Escapism “We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popula…

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04.03.2026 02:30 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How to Build Your Story's Setting #writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872390

04.03.2026 02:16 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Professional Book Editor in San Diego Affordable Book Editing | Novels | Nonfiction

Professional Book Editor in San Diego #amwriting #editingservices #writingcommunity #sandiego #california inventingrealityediting.com/p...

04.03.2026 02:06 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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7 Tips for Writing Dialogue in Fiction For the full article, click the linked title: • Place ‘said’ after speaker’s name Does placing said before or after attribution – as in Thales said or said Thales – matter? The an…

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04.03.2026 02:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0