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The 10 Worst Self-Editing Mistakes That Writers Make and How to Avoid Them [Checklist]
One part creation, one part deletion... The quality of good writing is most often in the editing. We know what it is to create something, that first draft that helps us get our ideas down on paper. But the sharpness and the clarity of our work come from the editing --...
6 Things Readers Want from Your Author Website
If you build it they won’t come. The only way to get people to visit your author website is to give them something they are looking for. But what is that? This article summarizes research done by the Codex Group about what readers want from author websites. 1....
5 Tips for Choosing Images for Your Book Cover
Choosing a photograph or illustration for your book's cover can obviously be a daunting task. No matter how imaginative writers can be, visual imagination is not always included. For many authors, the fact that an entire novel requires only one picture to illustrate...
Why Authors Need To Build Followings On Social Media — And How To Go About Doing It
Some authors today view social media as a sort of necessary evil. They see it as a distraction, something that takes them away from their art but that they nevertheless have to pretend like they care about. In reality, however, social media is much more than a form of...
Some Hard Truths About Writing
Writing is not hard, especially if you have a good command of the English language, or whatever language you are writing in. And many people have always said that writing is way easier than speaking because all you have to do is write, and not bother about the pitch,...
Your Journey to Becoming a Writer
The journey to becoming a writer starts from you and only you. Not just from the moment you had the idea or when you came up with what you want to write, but the moment you actually see yourself as a writer and begin to write. There were certain times in our lives,...
Things to Note in Your Manuscript Before Approaching a Publisher
Many times, writers are so eager to have their work published that they forget to do their own due diligence. They just write and send it to the publisher and hope that he/she would do the needful and then publish their work. It does not work that way. A writer is not...
Why Publishers Are Not Hard to Find
Contrary to popular opinion, publishers are not hard to find. Or better put, good publishers are not hard to find. They are in strategic places but are very selective about the kind of books they choose to publish. Writers and publishers move in the same line of...
Why Bad Reviews Can Lead to More Book Sales
Self-publishing is hard. And if you want to make it, you have to get good reviews ASAP or otherwise you’ll tank in the sales ranking. Disappearing into the graveyard of indie fiction, never to arise again. Most of the people and peers I’ve asked told me the same: “Try...
6 Must-Follow Tips for Editing an Academic Paper
Editing an academic paper is a bit different from that of work destined for a blog or publishing a novel. Because academic and scientific papers are written in a formal style, they need to be carefully edited to ensure the communication of ideas in an unambiguous way,...
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