Rob Bignell, Editor/Author

Ask at end of your book for a review One of the best ways to encourage people to buy your book is by having others speak highly of it, especially on a web page where a person can make a purchase. Amazon.com and other bookselling …

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Five Great Quotations about Why We Write “I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.” – Anaïs Nin“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” – Joan Didion“I have no tas…

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How to come up with characters’ names One of the most important decisions you’ll make as a storyteller is the names if your characters. If the names don’t ring right with readers, it can wear on them despite that the rest of your story…

How to come up with characters' names
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Copy editing intended for book near completion One type of editing you can have done is copy editing.This generally includes:• Correcting spelling, capitalization, punctuation and obvious grammar errors• Ensuring the text is clear and…

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12 Formatting Tips for Indie Authors For those new to self-publishing, the formatting process can be awful confusing. Here are some great tips to help make it more clear (click the linked title for the full article): • Is your book re…

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The Ultimate Guide to Understanding POV in Storytelling! #indieauthor #writerhelp #writerslift #amwriting #writingcommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872323

Ensure Descriptive Details Aren’t Just Chrome Descriptive scenes of places, characters or the time period in stories ought to be relevant to the plot. Such scenes should provide details that molds the reader’s understanding of the charact…

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Writing Inspiration: When are you creative? When are you most creative and most productive as a writer? Write a description of that place, noting the time of day, which of your senses are appealed to during that span, if you use pen and pape…

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How to establish your own writer’s voice Ever notice how you can identify some writers by the way they write? That’s because they have a distinct voice.Each writer sounds unique because each of has our own world view. Someone who is …

How to establish your own writer's voice
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Watch for consistency errors in your story As a novelist or short story writer, among your chief goals is to establish and maintain a fictional dream, which occurs when readers actually feel like they are experiencing what is being rea…

Watch for consistency errors in your story
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Serial comma: Use, don’t use, or don’t worry? A number of grammarians, teachers often think that punctuation, capitalization, spelling and grammar rules are absolute. The reality is that grammar hardly is black and white. It evolves over time,…

Serial comma: Use, don’t use, or don’t worry?
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Utilize both internal and external conflicts All stories center on conflict; arguably, the whole point of a story is to resolve some type of conflict. One way of thinking about conflict is to divide it into categories – internal and external.…

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Second person: Make your reader the protagonist One rare point of view that you might consider using is second person. In this point of view, the reader becomes the protagonist and decides how the story will turn out. Authors typically use …

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Add hashtags to your social media posts Among the best ways to increase your social media visibility is to use hashtags. This involves adding a pound sign (aka as a crosshatch or a tic-tac-toe sign) before a keyword in your post or …

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Four Writing Prompts: Doubt Good stories center on the clashing of characters’ goals and motivations. Sometimes a character’s goals and motivations arise from feelings of uncertainty or a lack of conviction. Here are fou…

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Eschew cliches like a toxic waste dump A quick way to strengthen your writing is to replace (or just avoid altogether) overused expressions and phrases. Such expressions and phrases are known as clichés. They include terms such as “avoi…

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Follow social media etiquette during promos When promoting your book via social media, you’ll want to make sure you’re observing the site’s “social etiquette.” Users of each site have unwritten standards of what is considered spamming, …

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Five Great Quotations about Writer’s Block “Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.” – Norman Mailer“You can fix anything but a blank page.” – Nora Roberts“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like…

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How to Build Your Story's Setting #writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872390

Maintain tension throughout your story Any story you tell by definition has a plot, characters, setting, point of view and theme. But to really make a story pop, an author has to interweave and play these elements against one anoth…

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Every moment offers a great opportunity to write A passionate writer never can be bored. Every location and situation offers an opportunity to write.Writing is largely an internal, in-your-head activity, after all. It involves your imaginati…

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4 Tips on Filing Taxes for Your U.S. Writing Biz • Tax forms self-published authors must fileAs a published author, you’ll have to pay taxes on your earnings from book sales. If a self-published author in the United States, you are a self-proprie…

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Make Sure the First Page of Your Story is the Best it Can Be #author #indieauthor #writer #amwriting #writingcommunity www.amazon.com/Write-Storys-F...

Self-Publishing Services Hire a professional, experienced editor to guide your book through the self-publishing process! I’ve self-published myself and have helped a number of other first-time authors through th…

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Affirm Your Belief in Beauty by Writing Perhaps what sets us apart from the animal kingdom is that we create art. Yes, chimps and elephants both have made paintings while whales and dolphins sing, but no animal on the planet other t…

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