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Self-Inflicted Obstacles to Becoming a Writer and How to Overcome Them - video
Lauretta Hannon
As a radio commentator, marketing consultant, teacher, and newspaper columnist, Lauretta Hannon has been in the communications industry a long time. When she considered pursuing writing her memoir The Cracker Queen she faced many internal hurdles and...
over 7 years ago
Managing Your Writing Life
Time Management
How Authors Can Use Social Media Effectively in Their Overall Marketing Strategy
Kathi Macias
An author’s main goal when using social media should be finding new readers, explains author, editor, and ghostwriter Kathi Macias. Two ways she does this is by hosting contests and asking for reader input for her writing. Anything that can generate...
over 5 years ago
Social Media
General
How an Effective Setting or World Can Inform and Shape a Story
Mike Robinson
To be most effective, award-winning author, screenwriter, and editor Mike Robinson believes your story's setting or world should develop organically and serve as the backdrop to the story. In his own writing, Robinson starts with a premise or a character...
over 2 years ago
Fiction
Setting
How Proper Feedback Can Help Writers Avoid Repeat Mistakes
Neil V. Young
Per author Neil V. Young, there is a common trap that many writers fall into. They spend years working on a writing project but never have it properly critiqued or reviewed by their peers or editing professionals. Their piece is riddled with mistakes...
over 4 years ago
Getting Feedback
Peer Reviews
Book Cover Trends - article
Author Learning Center
Capturing Your Audience with an Engaging Cover With nearly 200,000 new titles published each year, bookstores have books featured everywhere—stacked on the floor, standing on end caps and sitting on tables, not to mention the rows of shelves. This...
over 8 years ago
Branding
Brand Development
Coffee With Bill: 3 Steps to Move From Teaching to Training with Nonfiction Readers - Part 1 - video
Bill Donahue
When you're writing nonfiction, you need to communicate a lot of information effectively. In this presentation, "From Teaching to Training," Dr. Bill Donahue provides expert advice on writing a coherent nonfiction book, and he covers the following topics...
over 8 years ago
Nonfiction
Elements
Coffee With Bill: 3 Steps to Move From Teaching to Training with Nonfiction Readers - Part 1 - podcast
Bill Donahue
When you're writing nonfiction, you need to communicate a lot of information effectively. In this presentation, "From Teaching to Training," Dr. Bill Donahue provides expert advice on writing a coherent nonfiction book, and he covers the following topics...
over 8 years ago
Nonfiction
Elements
Author Allie Pleiter on The Chunky Method of Writing
Allie Pleiter
Bestselling author Allie Pleiter has published over 50 books, both fiction and nonfiction, and has sold over 1.5 million books worldwide. As an extremely productive and successful writer, Allie wanted to help other writers that were struggling to reach...
over 4 years ago
Managing Your Writing Life
Goal Setting and Process
Nurture - Sort - Q1 - Yes
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