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| Writing Advice: 10 Things that Keep You from Writing Your Book and What You Can do About It |
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By Denise Wakeman
9 out of 10 professionals and small business owners have at least one book or information product inside their head, but lack the time and organizational skills to get it out into digital or print form.
You may cringe when you read this list of ten things keeping you from writing your book, because it rings too close to home for you. You may have already written a book or an e-book, or have come close to starting it. It's hard, we know it, and we've been there too. But go ahead and read this list, see if you can identify, and let's discuss a possible solution to the book writing problem.
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Posted by User on Saturday, August 08 @ 23:52:28 CDT (221 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Write Your Life |
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By David Leonhardt
Take out a white piece of paper and place it on your kitchen table. You now have two choices. You can write or draw on it, or you can leave it there.
If you write or draw, you control the paper's destiny, the words or images it will express, the character it will display, the very meaning of its existence.
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Posted by User on Saturday, August 08 @ 23:15:11 CDT (212 reads)
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| Writing Advice: 10 Playful Way Tips to Revision |
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By Roberta Allen
These Playful Way tips can be used to help you revise any kind of creative prose--stories, short shorts, essays, novels, memoirs, journals, plays, screenplays, performance pieces, sketches, monologues--you name it! What is revision?
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Posted by User on Saturday, August 08 @ 23:12:41 CDT (171 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Coping with Rejection |
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By Moira Allen
Rejection slips. Is there anything worse than those humbling, preprinted letters, too light to trick you into thinking your SASE might contain an acceptance, too impersonal to tell you why? Rejection slips are the writer's gremlin, the nagging suggestion that we don't measure up. What can we do about them? How can we live with them? How do we make them stop?
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Posted by User on Saturday, August 08 @ 22:47:37 CDT (158 reads)
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| Writing Advice: What not to miss when drafting and negotiating your book publishing contract |
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By Attorney Lloyd J. Jassin
Drafting and negotiating contracts is viewed by
some publishers as wasteful and time consuming. "It gets in the way of the fun stuff." "Attorneys cost money." "Most books don’t earn back their advance." These are three common (and potentially devastating) justifications that owners of publishing companies give for not paying attention to their boilerplate contacts. Similarly, many authors lack the courage that Oliver Twist exhibited when he rose from the table and said, "Please sir, I want some more."
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Posted by User on Wednesday, August 05 @ 01:59:05 CDT (326 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Why Self-Publish? -- Tips |
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Author:Katrina Williams
You have written a book. Now you want to publish it. Which way do you go? Self-Publishing or Traditional Publishing? For most people, the traditional method seems safer, more reliable, and simply, easier. But it can take a long time to see their labored-over work in print.
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Posted by User on Monday, August 03 @ 02:46:18 CDT (103 reads)
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| Writing Advice: Common Mistakes Made When Writing a Book |
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By Terri Rain
Writers slave for months, crafting a story idea and developing their plot line. Once they have what they believe is the perfect draft, they start sending off their story to potential publishers, looking for their big break. Sadly, many of them never find the success they are looking for because they have made one of the common mistakes that authors make when writing a book.
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Posted by User on Monday, August 03 @ 02:39:23 CDT (198 reads)
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