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5 Great Quotations about Metaphors

���Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.��� - Orson Scott Card

���A metaphor is like a simile.��� - Anonymous

���When I can���t talk sense, I talk metaphor.��� - John Philpot Curran

���The metaphor is perhaps one of man���s most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic.��� - Jose Ortega y Gasset

���The reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.��� - Ray Bradbury

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9 Tips On How Authors Can Create A Media Kit

��� Utilize mainstream media to promote book 
��� Create media kit to promote your book
��� Yes, you can create your own media kit! 
��� How to write a press release for your book 
��� How to make your press release newsworthy 
��� What are "book specs" on a press release?
��� Pay attention to your author's bio pic 
��� How to land a television or radio interview 
��� What to do if your press release is ignored 
��� BONUS: "A writer can't not write. If a writer can't write, a writer will bite." 

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Intro to Self-Publishing: 12 Things You Must Know

��� What is self-publishing and should I try it?
��� Self-publishing vs. corporate publishing 
��� What you need to self-publish your book 
��� Computer requirements for self-publishing
��� Costs of self-publishing: What you'll pay for
��� What are the steps in publishing process?
��� How to purchase an ISBN for your book
��� No need to purchase SAN for self-published book 
��� Ebooks differ significantly from paper books
��� Avoid "publishing packages" if self-publishing
��� Be careful of fee-for-publishing companies
��� Try "taster book" if new to self-publishing 
��� BONUS: Many famous books first were self-published

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How frequently? Biweekly vs. Semi-weekly

If someone told you paychecks came out biweekly, would you give them a confused look and say, ���Twice a week? Why so often?��� And if someone said a class met semiweekly on Wednesdays, would you ask them if that was ���the first and third or the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month?���

Yes to both? Then read on.

Bi- means ���two,��� so something that is biweekly occurs every two weeks or every other week. For example, We receive our paychecks biweeekly or about twice a month.

Semi- means ���half,��� so something that is semi-weekly occurs every half-week or twice a week. To wit, The class meets semi-weekly on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

Though you now know the difference between the two words, your readers still might not. To prevent confusion, instead write ���every other week��� for biweekly and ���every two weeks��� for semiweekly.

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9 Tips for Structuring Your Novel

��� How to form your story���s basic structure
��� Start your story with solid narrative hook
��� Unfold action to develop a stronger story
��� Add ���big scenes��� to give story some oomph
��� Basic guidelines for your story���s rising action
��� Consider using counterplotting in your novel
��� Write your story���s penultimate scene
��� Descend the mountain with falling action
��� Make final words of your story count
��� BONUS: ���There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.��� ��� W. Somerset Maugham  

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5 Great Quotations about Growing as a Writer

���Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is because a real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. The world has many labels for him, of which the most treacherous is the label of Success.��� - James Baldwin

���If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one...he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.��� - Honore de Balzac

���So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.��� - Harold Acton

���Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.��� - Tom Robbins

���Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.��� - Jennifer Egan

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Words of Encouragement for Writers

��� I am a successful writer because I decided to be 
��� I drive my story in the direction it wants to go 
��� Express your gratitude by continuing to write! 
��� Reading is an ocean. Writing is a boat. 
��� Good writing asks good questions 
��� BONUS: ���I will write until the day I die, or until I am robbed of my capacity to reason.���

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��� Boost book sales with public presentations
��� Offer more than just a book reading or lecture 
��� Weigh cons of a book presentation against pros  
��� Steps in organizing a book presentation 
��� Potential locations for book presentations 
��� Promote your book at writing conferences
��� How to offer workshops based on your books
��� How to promote your book presentation
��� Create visuals for your workshop presentation
��� Setting up your book presentation  
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