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What do you as a writer have in common with a business owner? You both have an audience in mind. The more clearly a business owner identifies her audience, the easier it is for her to sell to them. As a writer, the more clearly you can identify your audience, the easier it will be [...]
If at first you don’t succeed… join the club. There’s no reason to be frustrated if you aren’t able to write exactly what you want on the first attempt. In fact, that may work to your advantage. Many writers have, unfortunately, given the act of revising their work a negative connotation, but it’s actually an opportunity [...]
It used to be that self-publishing was merely a footnote in the big story of book publishing. Not anymore. Here are some sobering numbers: A Publishers Weekly analysis of Bowker data shows that the number of self-published books has grown 287 percent since 2006. Publishers Weekly notes that 235,625 self-published print and e-books were released [...]
Writers, when you use an absolute adjective like always or never in a sentence, you’re making the claim that there are NO exceptions. And do you know what that means? It means that in a way, you’re challenging your readers to prove the statement to the contrary. Whoa! Conflict as a result of one little [...]