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Writers must be comfortable with failure To be successful, writers must be comfortable with failure.Remember that no first attempt at a short story, novel or nonfiction book will be perfect. In fact, it probably will be more awful than go…

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Not a reluctant tip: Loath vs. loathe These are two words you’d hate to mix up.Loathe is a verb meaning to “dislike greatly,” as in I loathe my mean grammar teacher!Loath without an e is an adjective meani…

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Everyone’s vs. everyones’ vs. everyones Sometimes singular and plural pronouns and apostrophes can leave you feeling like you’re swimming in a turbulent ocean. Such is the case with everyone’s vs. everyones’ vs. everyones.To begin, we sh…

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Attract and Keep Readers Via Blogging Among the best ways to begin a dialogue with readers as well as keep them and the media up-to-date is by creating a blog. A link to your blog should appear on your website among the navigation…

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Perish the thought! Disdain vs. distain All too often writers who mix up these two words are the butt of mockful criticism.Distain is an archaic word meaning to be stained or disgraced. Typically what writers mean when they use the word …

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How to Format Your Ebook: Quick, Easy to Understand, Practical Tips #authorlife #writerslife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872234

Rotate third-person limited to avoid issues Sometimes writers structure their book so that the third-person limited point of view alternates from scene to scene between major characters in a book. However, within each scene, only one of…

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Scrubbing out those cleanup vs. clean up errors Many writers misuse clean up and cleanup. Time to sweep away those errors!Cleanup is a noun that means making something clean. Metaphorically, it also is used to indicate that someone has made a lo…

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Challenges faced running a business from home For authors, running your business out of your home offers a number of great benefits. But there are some challenges. Before going online to order new furniture, before converting the storage …

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A friendly argument: Amity vs enmity Some writers have a real love/hate relationship with this pair of antonyms.Amity is the feeling of friendliness that one has: Having known each other since kindergarten, Brook and Kieran enjoyed gr…

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Writing Prompt: Random sentence 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: Take a fiction book off you…

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How to Follow a Writing Process for Your Nonfiction Book #author #writer #indieauthors #amwriting #writingcommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872382

Add color to your fiction manuscript Even if your story offers a lot of dramatic tension and the sentences are tightly constructed, it still can feel a bit monochrome or colorless. When that occurs, the writing probably is not particu…

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Using names of companies, products in a story? There’s a lot of confusion among writers about whether they can use the names of real companies and brands in their stories. Not surprisingly, there are plenty of misconceptions about trademark pro…

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Preparing your book reading, presentation If you’re a little anxious about speaking in front of a crowd for a book presentation, that’s understandable; public speaking is one of the biggest fears people have. But with a little prepara…

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You must always be ready to write To be a writer, one must write. With all of the modern world’s distractions – social media, the demands of work, a house to be cleaned, cell phone texts, a family that needs attention – findin…

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Appeal to sense of taste in descriptions Of the five senses, taste is the rarest in stories. The reason is that we’re not eating, drinking, smoking or falling face-first into the dirt as frequently as we are seeing, hearing and smell…

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Five Great Quotations about Fiction “It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth.” – Tim O’Brien“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.” – G.K. Chesterton“Humanit…

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Improve descriptions by appealing to ‘touch’ As with sight, we’re constantly barraged with the sensation of touch, but often it goes ignored. American and Western culture prefers personal space that prevents a lot of touching, and our buildin…

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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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Mimic sounds to appeal to sense of hearing As appealing to a sense of hearing when writing, you may want to include the sound itself. For example, if describing the sounds of insect-like aliens in the distance as writing a science fict…

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How to Effectively Use a Writing Process When Writing Fiction #amwriting #author #write #writer #writing www.amazon.com/dp/1948872374

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Use confidant to reveal hero’s inner turmoil Sometimes to reveal the protagonist’s inner conflict, he shares his thoughts with another character. This character who the protagonist trusts is referred to as a confidant (or a&nbs…

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