5 Most Popular Posts on CameronChapman.com!
Despite not posting much in 2015, I had over 28,000 page views from over 17,000 unique visitors. My goal is to reach that traffic level per month in 2016! So chances are, some of you are new to this blog. Awesome! WELCOME!
If you caught my post yesterday, you saw that one of my big goals for 2016 is to have a blog post published every day! Woah! Ambitious, I know. But hey, why not? When I first started blogging almost a decade ago, I published multiple posts every day, while holding down a full-time job! So theoretically this whole one post per day, 7 days a week, should be simple. Right?!?
Anyway, if you’re new here you might be interested in checking out my most popular posts from the past. These are the posts that people come back to day after day, because they find them to be uber useful. Hopefully you will, too!
#1: Ebook Formatting the Easy Way
A little warning on this one, it’s pretty deprecated at this point. Sometime this year I’ll try to update it, but a lot of the basic formatting info and process is pretty similar. Just be warned that the software has been updated since the post was originally released.
#2: No More Times New Roman! Font Combinations for Book Design
This is one of my favorite posts for anyone who’s putting together a book or other typographical layout. I get so sick of seeing Times New Roman as the default for things other than, say, academic papers. There are so many other great fonts out there that you should be using!
#3: The Rules of Writing: Switching POV, or “Head-Hopping”
The Rules of Writing series that I did is still proving to be popular, even after a few years. This one deals with the dreaded “head-hopping” we hear so much about, what it is, and when it’s okay to do. Hint: the answer isn’t “never”.
#4: The Rules of Writing: Use Perfect Grammar
We all heard this one drilled into our heads. If you wanted to come across as intelligent, you had to follow the rules of English grammar to the letter. Except a lot of the “rules” we were taught in school aren’t really rules at all, and were just borrowed from Latin. And particularly in creative writing, it’s important to feel free to break them when necessary.
#5: The Rules of Writing: Dialogue Tags
Dialogue tags can be one of the key indicators of a noob writer. Honestly, “said” or “asked” are going to work for you 99% of the time. Even better? Make it clear who’s speaking without having to add a dialogue tag.
So there they are: A bunch of oldies-but-goodies for you to enjoy at the start of 2016! I’ll be posting a LOT more in the coming year, both here and at my other blog, Step Three: Bliss, which will be re-launching soon.
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