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Will You Take Inspired Action as a Writer in 2012?

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I’ve been thinking all day about what to write in this last post of 2011. I could have offered you some sort of things-t0-do-t0-get-published list or a best-of post. I could have told you to hurry up and finish your to-do list. I decided not to do that. Instead, I thought about what I wanted to encourage you to do…
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Should You Add Bells and Whistles (like Apps) to Your Books?

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I read this recent post by Seth Godin, and it got me thinking about all the different possible things we authors can now do with our content.Ā  Then I thought of an ebook recently published by Julien Smith, The Flinch. It’s free and there’s not much to it but great content. There’s so much great content to be written. So…
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A 4-Step Process for Making Your Writing Dreams Come True

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I do a lot of things to help make my writing dreams come true. I write. I promote. I propose. I don’t give up. I don’t accept rejection as failure. I build platform. But there are some other things I do, too. These have little to do with writing per se. They have more to do with using my focus…
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Happy Holidays to All My Readers

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Happy Holidays! Today’s post is a short one mainly to say thank you for being my blog readers. I’m so grateful every day to know that someone shows up here–well, more than just some one…lots of some ones–to read what I write. I compose these posts three times a week because I’m passionate about helping other aspiring nonfiction authors learn…
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How Writers Can Make Time for Social Media

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I hear the same excuse from aspiring authorsā€”and from published authorsā€”when I tell them they should use social networking to build platform and promote themselves and their work. They always say, ā€œItā€™s one more thing to do that takes me away from my writing.ā€ This statement is closely followed by, ā€œSocial networking is a waste of time,ā€ ā€œItā€™s a time…
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