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March 26, 2018

How to Write Effective Blog Posts and Quickly Grow an Audience of Admiring Fans

by Bryan Hutchinson Source link Note: This is a guest post by Blake Powell, he’s a writer, entrepreneur, and dreamer. He helps writers uncover the power of their voice and share their unique messages with…
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Published on March 26, 2018 12:07

March 25, 2018

What Could Be Stranger Than Writing?

by JW Source link People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people—a conversation with no one and yet with everyone. What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a question to a text? What could bes
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Published on March 25, 2018 20:59

How This Writing Contest Will Transform Your Writing

by Joe Bunting Source link If you want to become a better writer and eventually get published, you should join a writing contest. Here’s why: writing contests are one of the best ways to practice your writing (and as I’m sure you can imagine, we’re pretty obsessed with writing contests over here). Even better, ats
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Published on March 25, 2018 17:57

Indie Author Interview: JeryLyn Harrington

by Alan Kealey Source link Indie Author Interview with JeryLyn Harrington – Author of the Science-Fiction Thriller City of the Guardians. JeryLyn Harrington has written short stories and journals from high school through…
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Published on March 25, 2018 14:56

Rethink Your Definition of Productivity to Squash Uninspired Filler

by Kelton Reid Source link You’re not losing your mind. A constant stream of social media posts on the internet right now promise to pull back the curtain on the next great advancement in usefulness, productivity, or shiny automation engines. The cult of productivity is always knocking on our doors because it’s a part ofs
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Published on March 25, 2018 11:55

LAST LETTER FROM GREAT AUNT NORA GANNON GALLAGHER by Greg Rappleye

by Courtney Harler Source link They tapped a cask of sherry—cozy is as cozy does— in a command post near Brunete.
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Published on March 25, 2018 08:54

Review: Welcome, Reluctant Stranger (Between Two Worlds Book 3) by Evy Journey

by Marta Cheng Source link A foiled assassination attempt, a corrupt government and an almost two decades’ long mystery are the surprising and intriguing elements in Welcome, Reluctant Stranger, the standalone third installment in Evy Journey’s excellent Between Two Worlds romance series. At age nine, little Leilani Torres’ seemingly perfect life was uprooted when hers
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Published on March 25, 2018 05:53

Flog a BookBubber 133: Will North

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
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Published on March 25, 2018 02:52

March 24, 2018

Macro Monday Is Off To Austin

by terribleminds Source link New macro photo there. Is it good? No. Do I like it? Yes. I’m noodling actually on getting a new macro lens — the MP-E 65mm, would let me do macros up to 5x (!) instead of 1x magnification, which is huge, but would also require greater technique, stability, light, ands
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Published on March 24, 2018 23:51

Punctuation Is Important

by Debbie Ridpath Ohi Source link
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Published on March 24, 2018 20:48