Posts Tagged ‘Writing’
How Artificial Intelligence (AI) Can Help, or Hurt, Your Writing
There are many different AI-powered writing tools available, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. Experimenting with different tools can help you find the best fit for your writing needs.
Read MoreDo Productivity Hacks Work? Yes! Here Are My Top 10
How’s your productivity? This pandemic has seriously highlighted how much one can do and not do in a given space and time. Millions of working folks may now be working remotely. More specifically: Upwork estimates that 1 in 4 Americans over 26% of the American workforce will be working remotely through 2021. They also estimate…
Read More5 Memoir Writing Exercises To Help You Right Now
Stuck in that, “Now what?” phase in writing your memoir? Let’s move you along. “Memoir is about something you know after something you’ve been through,” says Marion Roach Smith, author of The Memoir Project. Many memoir writers, once they’ve given themselves permission to write their story, get stuck after writing that terrible first draft. First drafts…
Read MoreHow Much Money is Enough to Make from Your Writing? by guest @colleen_m_story
When asked how much money they want to make from their writing, most writers would probably say, “As Much As Possible!” But there are consequences to that answer that you may not have thought about. Being more precise about your desired writing income can make the difference between enjoying a long and successful career and…
Read MoreHow to Not Waste Your Valuable Time When Guest Blogging by @ThDigitalReader
What is Guest Blogging? Guest blogging ( aka “writing for exposure”) puts your work in front of a new audience, giving you the chance to find new readers or clients. It can be a great way to get attention, but that is only true if the host blog has an audience in the first place.…
Read MoreHere Are The Winners For #NaNoProMo Week Two
#NaNoProMo 2020 Week Two is over! Are you one of the winners? A huge thank you to all my amazing sponsors, experts, and YOU – all the writers who read, commented, and shared these terrific, informative guest posts and giveaways these past two weeks. It’s been a whirlwind, hasn’t it? Whew. This entire initiative is…
Read MoreHow To Write On Medium and Be Successful by Guest @ShauntaGrimes
What you need to know going into Medium, even if you’re not a new writer. I know a lot of writers. In fact, it often feels like just about everyone I know is a writer of some kind. And even if they don’t identify themselves as writers, I just see the writer in everyone. I…
Read MoreWill Your Novel Solve a Reader’s Problem? by Guest @Janice_Hardy
Marketing is a challenge for writers because marketing a novel is different from marketing a product. A core tenet of good marketing is to show how your product solves a problem, but with novels, the “problem” isn’t so cut and dry. Maybe it’s boredom, maybe it’s a love of reading, maybe it’s to entertain. “I…
Read MoreHow to Start Heart-Centered Book Marketing by Guest @BethBarany
By the time I was ready to publish my first novel, I knew I needed to start thinking about marketing too. But I was scared. I felt like a young child daring to reveal her precious art to the whole world. I was small and they were huge. And their response mattered a lot. How…
Read MoreThis is What It Takes to Sell a Lot of Books by Guest @WritePubSell
What We Wish Would Happen…We Sell a Ton of Books! Finish writing our incredible book. Get it prepped for publishing. Load to Amazon. Miracle pixie dust… boom, bestseller status, and LOADS of sales! What is most likely to happen – everything up to the load to Amazon part and then a trickle of sales. Maybe…
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