And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.Joseph Drake Remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice this Memorial Day!
Month: May 2017
Writing, an Important Skill and How to Improve it
It’s a given that authors need to be able to write well in order to be successful. But is this true of other professions too? Is the ability to write a necessity for them as well? I think it might be. Have you ever read a blog post or an eBook where the grammar mistakes …
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Book: Self-Publishing On All Platforms
Have you ever wonder how other self-publishing platforms differ from Amazon KDP? This book points out the differences as well as the similarities in the platforms. The self-publishing platforms that are covered in this book are Amazon KDP, Smashwords, Nook Press, Draft2Digital, and Kobo Writing Life. If you haven’t published on some of the …
Knowing the Writing World You Face
This post was written by Stephen A. Roddewig.
We writers are a strange bunch. Many of us are raised in a culture that lauds competition and exceptionalism. Indeed, the sheerer the slope, the more exceptional you must be to climb it, yet we confront a space as contested and conflicted as the writing sphere and believe that somehow our voice will stand out among millions.
What even is the writing sphere? It’s a market that has been uprooted by the Internet and forced to reevaluate its identity. The same trend has forced writing itself into conflict, as scholars debate where high literature ends and popular culture begins. More progressive voices argue that even discussing such a distinction is pointless. Meanwhile, mass communication has started to rewrite the rules through blogs and online journals.
None of this is to say that these changes are bad. From the populist perspective, the…
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Five Things Authors Need to Do to Build Their Platform
I am sure that anyone who writes has heard how important an author platform is. You may even be a little sick of hearing about it. It is time-consuming to do and really takes away from the writing. But it is a vital step to gain readers. In fact, it is an important tool that …
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Is Word Length Important for a Good Blog Post?
I recently read an article about blogging that said a good blog post should be at least 1000 words or more. If you want even higher SEO rankings then your posts should be 2000 to 3000 words. So is length really that important to a good blog post? I never really thought about it until …
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