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72Writing a Good Bio for Your Website
Most writers crave attention, not so much personally, but for their writing. Many authors shy away from the personal bio. They either go overboard with their life story, or they do not give enough of the "right" information. A bio should be tight,...
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60Writer? Gather Followers...
Learning the writing biz challenges the best of us. So many routes, paths, forks to take, so few to guide. In fact, when it comes to guidance, in writing you need to follow your instincts as much as the advice of successful writers. When something...
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59Continuous Partial Attention
What makes you dive out of bed and into the day each morning? Anything? Something in this life must excite you - must launch your heart and soul and mind into a tizzy - and dump loads of eagerness into your body. For me, writing ratchets up the...
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61Writing Confidence
I feel this question is somewhat rhetorical for most writers. I struggle far too often when it comes to confidence. It's a crazy dichotomy - I know I write well, but often my confidence wanes. These times where I stumble along wondering what the...
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60What Do I Write?
How many times as authors do we sit down with the intention of writing and our minds blank out? Too often from my perspective. Too often we allow ourselves to believe we have nothing viable to say in this world. Too often we switch over to Hearts or...
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67Theory of Positivity
Writing embodies a solitary mindset. Until we learn to 'network' brains like computers, writers must pursue their task alone. Yes, we may use input from other authors. Yes, we may think-tank or group-think ideas, plot lines, characters, etc. Yes, we...
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62Book Marketing - Start Now
What a tacky title - Marketing is More Important Than the Book Itself. So it's not entirely true. Or is it? When do you start marketing the book? Wow. There's a loaded question. The first thing you must consider is - are you serious about this...
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61Preparing to Make Money Writing
Most writers desire money to keep their habit going. We love to write and generating money from something we enjoy sometimes feels like a hallucination. Money in writing most often does not jump up and down and shout, "Here I am!" A writer must dig...
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65Traditional Publishing - Why it Sucks (Part One)
I was reading a thread on LinkedIn yesterday about publishing. I ended up having to quell the urge to grab two fistfuls of my hair and rip them toward heaven and scream, "Why?" I've been tooling around in the writing/publishing world now for over...
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60Those Who Do and Those Who Don't
Much like how the the moon and stars rose to prominence, writers who 'make it' appear to do so mysteriously or even magically. Unlike the moon and stars, these writers all followed their own sentient path - they marketed and promoted their product....
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