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Find Strength When Your Next Rejection Get’s You Down

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I’ve been working really hard lately to change my negative thoughts about getting published and about rejection into positive ones. I’m a firm believer in the creative nature of our thoughts and words. I’m an inspirational speaker and writer in addition to speaking and writing about the topic of writing and publishing. Sometimes, however, I need inspiration as well–I need…
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What is the “Writing Life” and is it Worth Living?

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Saturday I received a comment on my Redroom blog post–the same one as Friday’s post here at Write Nonfiction NOW! about writing for free. A reader said she thought we should worry less about getting paid and more about living “writers’ lives.” I queried back, “What is the ‘writer’s life’?” I wonder about this. Yes, it is writing every day….
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I Have a Writing Job I Love; I’d Love to Get Paid for Doing It

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Yesterday I took a challenge offered by www.Redroom.com. Each week they have a contest to write a blog post on a particular subject. This week, this was the challenge: BLOG TOPIC: WRITING FOR FREE Many writers can no longer make a living freelancing, whether due to changing business models, technologies, or cultural shifts. There’s talk of mutiny, but much more…
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Best Business Plan an Author Can Buy

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Writers need to approach their book projects as business people. They need a business plan, a strategy not only for how they will write their books but how they will promote/sell them. This means they need to know who their readers will be and in what markets they will find them. Then they need to know how to infiltrate these…
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Joel Friedlander Offers Tips and Reasons for Booking a Blog

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On Friday when I reviewed fellow blogger and book designer Joel Friedlander’s new book, A Self-Publisher’s Companion, Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish, I promised I’d publish the four questions I asked him about his experience booking a blog. (If you don’t know what that means, please refer to this post.) You see, I didn’t just want to…
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I Did It! I Published on Smashwords and Amazon Kindle!

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Yes, indeed, I did! I took one of my short books–a condensed version of what will one day be a full-length book, revised it, had a cover made for it, and formatted it. I then uploaded it to Smashwords and Amazon, and it is now available as an e-book in all e-reader formats. Whoo hoo. And you can do it,…
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