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The New Style of Writing for the Net (Are You Up with the Play?) By Mary Jaksch, Chief Editor of Write to Done If you want to improve your writing, where do you look for inspiration? I mean, would you use Shakespeare as your guide? Or Hemingway? Or other famous authors? I hope not.… |
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How an Editor Hammered Me and My Guest Post into Shape A guest post by PJ Reece of PjReece.ca “Wow! This looks awesome, PJ.” That’s Mary Jaksch getting all excited in a March 11 email. I had sent her my newly hatched eBook called STORY STRUCTURE TO DIE FOR. Mary continues: “Do… |
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One Tip that Makes Writing Blog Posts Super Easy By Mary Jaksch, Chief Editor of WritetoDone Most blog posts ramble. They meander from one topic to the next. Why? Because bloggers think that more is more. It happens to me too at times. I start out with a single… |
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How to Skyrocket Your Subscriber Count: Crucial Strategies for Bloggers By Mary Jaksch, Chief Editor of Write to Done If you’re a blogger, you know how frustrating it is when your subscriber numbers stagnate. As a newbie blogger, I started my blog Goodlife ZEN with only two subscribers: my son… |
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Creativity Blocked? Here’s the Solution… A guest post by Noelle Sterne from Trust Your Life When I scanned the mail the other day, one letter caught my eye with handwriting I couldn’t quite place. Curious, I tore open the letter and, to my shock, saw… |
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A Radical Approach to Launching a Book? Interview with Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing Do you plan to write a book at some point in the future? Writing a book is a big challenge. But there is another hurdle at the end: you have to launch your book. Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing came… |
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Why Using Videos on a Blog Creates Raving Fans By Mary Jaksch, Chief Editor of Write to Done These days, if you want to make it as a writer, you need to do more than just write well. It used to be enough, but … Before we all went… |
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5 Actions to Take to Bring Your Blog into the Spotlight A guest post by Bamidele Onibalusi of YoungPrePro As a writer looking forward to using the internet to grow your business, you’d probably have come across several articles telling you to start a blog, update it regularly, give the best… |
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Three Words You Should Eliminate from Your Writing A guest post by James Chartrand of Men with Pens Every good copywriter will tell you that you should write concisely. Eliminate every unnecessary word. Be bold with your choice of nouns and adjectives. Choose precise words, not common ones.… |
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Top 10 Blogs for Writers 2011/2012- The Winners When we asked you to nominate your favorite blog for writers, we got over 2,100 comments and nominations! This year’s sixth annual competition was simply awesome. Great to see how passionate readers are about their favorite writing blog! We … |
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Top 10 Blogs for Writers Contest 2011/12: The Finalists Who are the finalists? Three weeks ago we asked you to nominate your favorite blog for writers. We got over 2,100 comments and nominations! Thanks to everyone who put in a nomination. Here are the 20 finalists in alphabetical … |
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Memoir Gets its Own Back: Kapka Kassabova on how an Idea Morphed into a Published Book A guest post by Kapka Kassabova ‘If you want to work on your art, work on your life.’ – Chekhov Ten years ago, I was a single East European émigré living in Auckland and caught between Old and New Worlds,… |
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How to Make your Readers Sit Up and Take Notice Raiders of the Lost ... By Mary Jaksch, Chief Editor of Write to Done Let’s say you want to write about a dry subject like how to use backlinking for SEO (Search Engine Optimization). How can you make readers sit… |
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How to Show (Not Tell): A Writing Lesson from John LeCarre Can you show (not tell)? By Mary Jaksch I’m sure you agree that whether you write fiction or faction, stories are a great way to convey your message. Even in fact-focused blog posts, a good story can engage and inspire… |
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Nominate Your Favorite Writing Blog: 6th Annual Top 10 Blogs for Writers Contest The ANNUAL TOP 10 BLOGS FOR WRITERS It’s time to open up nominations for the 6th annual Top 10 Blogs for Writers Contest—the blogosphere’s biggest contest for writing blogs. How to Nominate Your Favorite Writing Blog: → Nominate your favorite… |
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The [nearly] Ultimate Guide to Better Writing By Mary Jaksch Do you want to become a better writer? We’ve got something for you. And it’s totally free! We’ve just put the finishing touches on our first WTD eBook, called The (nearly) Ultimate Guide to Better Writing. Scott… |
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Why a Publisher Says: Become an Expert – Write an eBook By Nicolas Gremion of Paradise Publishers Looking to make the leap to becoming a published author? Wanting to expand your brand? Hoping to position yourself as an expert in your field? An eBook can help you achieve all of this… |
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How to Land a Guest Post Without Fail: 21 Secret Tips By Mary Jaksch Do you want to grow your blog? Then writing guest posts is a great option. But it’s not so easy to get it right. As the Chief Editor of Write to Done, I get a lot of… |
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What Are You Writing? By Mary Jaksch What are you working on right now? A blog post? A novel? Your best article ever? A poem? A film script? An Ebook? Maybe you’ve just finished something you’re really proud of? Or you just can’t tell… |
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How to Write What People Actually Want to Read Market Samurai By Mary Jaksch, Chief Editor of WTD So let’s say you want to write a piece that will knock the socks off your readers. How can you find out if they’ll be interested in the topic you’re keen… |
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How to Use the Power of Silence to Boost Your Writing Career The Power of Silence A guest post by Linda Formichelli of The Renegade Writer As writers, we voice our opinions, discuss options, interview sources, ask questions, negotiate with editors and clients, and kvetch about assignments with our writer friends. For… |
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What Are YOU Writing? By Mary Jaksch What are you working on right now? A blog post? A novel? Your best article ever? A poem? A film script? An Ebook? Maybe you’ve just finished something you’re really proud of. Or maybe you just can’t… |
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Why You Should Write First for Yourself Write for yourself A guest post by Jeff Goins of Goins, Writer. I’ve been blogging for so long that I’m tempted to forget a crucial truth to writing success. Maybe you have, too. What’s that truth? You need to write… |
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Are You Missing This Crucial Skill Set as a Writer? Have you got the tools you need? By Mary Jaksch Every writer dreams of being discovered. Don’t you? Whether you write fiction or faction, you want people – lots of people – to read your stuff. Maybe you dream of… |
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How To Make One Story into Many By Being Multimedia Savvy By Drew Tewksbury of Ebyline’s Blog It’s not hard to get discouraged about writing and journalism with all the negative news in the media world. Newspapers are ceasing production, magazines are going online-only, and new outlets are few and far… |
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Is it Too Late to Start Blogging? A guest post by Christopher Foster from The Happy Seeker I’ve been a writer all my life and one of the things I love about this ancient activity is that you can do it at any age. The forms you… |
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The Art of Magic, Mystery, and Mayhem A guest post from Ollin Morales of Courage 2 Create The Art of Mayhem A year and a half ago my life was in the midst of mayhem. The company I was working for went bankrupt and I was let… |
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How I Doubled My Productivity as a Blogger by Becoming a Virtual CEO [CASE STUDY] A guest post by Chris C. Ducker blogs of VirtualBusinessLifestyle.com In January 2010 I put a goal in place for myself. That goal was to become a full- time Virtual CEO, leaving my desk and the 250 people that worked… |
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Writing an eBook: How to Get Started (and Finish!) A guest post by Cara Stein of 17000 Days Writing an ebook is awesome. You can control the publication process, eliminating the long delays of finding a publisher and waiting for your book to be printed. If you do a… |
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10 Tips for Writing Excellence From Top Writing Bloggers Do you want to drastically improve your writing? Are you looking for new ways to boost your writing career, retain more clients, stick to your writing schedule, or get more readers addicted to your blog’s content? We asked the winners… |
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The Problem of GTR: Do You Know How to Use These Words Correctly? By Mary Jaksch As writers we need to write correctly, right? It’s embarrassing if you publish stuff with mistakes. Yes, all of us writers need to guard against extravagating. So, let’s see if you know how to use some important… |
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