This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. If you have followed the posts related to Step #2 in the Author Training process, Find Out If You Know What Your Book’s About and Why Someone Would Want to Read (Buy) It, you are now ready…
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Social Media Engagement, Week #5 I can hardly believe that this is the last writing prompt in our social media experiments theme this month. This also closes out our fourth month of doing writing prompts here at WriteNonFictioninNovember.com. I hope you are finding these prompts to be useful. Today, your job is to attempt to track your social media experiments…
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Social Media Engagement, Week #4 Social media engagement for the purpose of benefiting others is very different than social media engagement to benefit you. It is easy to do and gives an instant push of humanity to any person on social media. Try it out by commenting on peoples’ feeds in Google+, Facebook, or Twitter. Or better yet, try doing…
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I battled with Microsoft Word for years. Oh heck, I use Word just like everybody else, have used it for years. I was converted from WordPerfect back in the days when Microsoft’s Office suite swept away all competition at one fell swoop. It was easier to just accept it as the program with the best features and the most support…
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Social Media Engagement, Week #4 Though there are many different definitions of social media engagement, there are two forms of engagement that dominate: doing it to benefit you and doing it to benefit others. Today, we explore social media engagement that is used to primarily benefit you, your blog, your causes, or your projects. Your job is to conduct social…
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