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Flog a BookBubber 135: C.J. Carmichael

by Ray Rhamey Source link Writers, send your prologue/first chapter to FtQ for a “flogging” critique. Email as an attachment. Many of the folks who utilize BookBub are self-published, and because we hear over and over the need for self-published authors to have their work edited, it’s educational to take a hard look at theirs

Flash Fiction Challenge: New Life

by terribleminds Source link Two words: “New life.” Lot of power in those two words, and a lot of ways to interpret them. I want you to take those two words, and use them as the basis for this week’s challenge — write a story using those two words as a springboard. Again, feel frees

The story behind my upcoming Broken Crayons picture book with Linda Sue Park for Simon & Schuster BFYR!!!

by Debbie Ridpath Ohi Source link I am THRILLED and HONOURED to announce that I will be illustrating a picture book by Linda Sue Park. The announcement appeared Publishers Weekly Children’s Bookshelf last week while I was out of town:Announcement in Mar. 22, 2018 issue of Publishers Weekly Children’s Bookshelf As some of you alreadys

Start Tracking Time and Increase Your Freelance Writing Income

by Anne Wayman Source link One sure way to improve your writing income is to begin tracking your time. You need to know pretty accurately how long it actually takes you to write whatever kind of writing you do for income. When you begin tracing your time you’ll discover several things: The most obvious iss

Don’t Let Bad Content Ruin Your SEO Rankings

by Grammar Chic, Inc. Source link You’re probably familiar with the old SEO axiom: Content is king. That’s a little bit of an oversimplification, but there’s a lot of truth to it. If you’re trying to enact a savvy SEO campaign and achieve higher Google rankings for your business website, strong content is crucial. It’ss

Your Life Is Your Present

by JW Source link God’s present to me is my own life. It’s not D. H. Lawrence’s or Tolstoy’s or Virginia Woolf’s—much as I might like it to be. And, whoever is reading this, your life is your present, your dowry, your donnée. No one on earth is going to have the same list ofs

Writing Tips: Writing is Rewriting

by Melissa Donovan Source link Writing tips: writing is rewriting. Or is it? Those of us who spend a lot of time studying the craft of writing inevitably come across bits of writing advice that we hear over and over again: show don’t tell, write what you know, and kill your darlings. These writing tipss

Overcoming Burnout: How to Recover When You’re Exhausted From Writing

by David Safford Source link Let’s face it: You love to write. Yet a moment always seems to come when that passion feels more like a prison. Perhaps it’s due to a crushing deadline. Maybe writing becomes exhausting because the words just don’t come. Maybe the readers don’t come either, and you wonder whether writings

Welcoming Our New Students to the Creative Foundations Course!

by Sonia Simone Source link Aww, it warms my heart to see the wave of new students joining our Creative Content Foundations course. That’s a new class from Copyblogger, designed to give you the essentials that every content marketing “pro” needs — whether you’re creating content for your own business, for freelance clients, or ins

HIRAETH by Nicholas Mcgaughey

by Courtney Harler Source link “I feel no longing….” “Hireath” by Nicholas Mcgaughey is a fitting conclusion to our Celtic Issue. Thanks for reading!