How To Write Well: 10 Essential Self-Editing Tips | Write to Done - 0 views
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The easiest way to write well is to edit your writing. The best person to edit a manuscript, article or blog post is the author herself.
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Leave your writing alone for a while
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Pay attention to what jumps out at you as awkward.
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Do You Have an Editor-Repelling Email Address? | The Renegade Writer - 0 views
How to Stop the Psychodramas and Get Your Writing Done - 0 views
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An article about how writers are often their own worst enemy. Almost every successful writer has "write daily" as rule number one. Those that let themselves fail have rules like "I need inspiration", "I write better in the morning", etc., I don't care if it is a journal, editorial, tweet or a FB post, if you wish to write, find a way to write daily.
Compound Plurals - 0 views
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In regard to American usage, the Chicago Manual of Style recommends that writers consult Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary for “tricky” compounds like fathers-in-law, courts-marital, and chefs d’oeuvre, adding, “For those not listed, common sense can usually provide the answer.”
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Compound nouns are of three kinds: open, closed, and hyphenated.
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Some speakers have trouble with nouns that end in -ful, puzzling, for example, between cupfuls and cupsful. This is a case in which common sense should probably advise against consulting M-W. Although the M-W entries for cupful, handful, and armful list the plurals cupfuls, handfuls, and armfuls first, they give cupsful, handsful, and armsful as alternative spellings. In addition, the spelling handfull is in there as an “also.” My American spellchecker does not countenance any of these alternatives. Cupsful doesn’t cut it because compound nouns are made up of two or more words that can be used on their own. For example, the words in the compound policeman can be used separately: “The man called for the police.” The element ful in cupful is not a word; it’s a suffix. Common sense tells me that cupsful is incorrect.
The Smart Way to Use Other People's Audiences to Build Your Own - Copyblogger - 0 views
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That’s the basic idea: Get in front of OPA, and then publish fantastic content so you can earn that audience’s respect and trust.
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Interacting with others, sharing the content of others, and participating in communities are all great ways to generate attention and build an audience.
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build an audience that is relevant to what you do
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So, How DO You Promote a Blog Post, Anyway? - 0 views
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Comment on their posts.
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If you want to build a blog, the reality is that Twitter is one of the most important platforms for sharing, probably followed by Google+, at this point. If you’re in a home/food/how-to niche, Pinterest may be important to you as well. If Facebook seems like a place people talk about your topic a lot, it might be useful, too.
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There are plenty of tools out there — among the most popular are AddtoAny, ShareThis, and Sharebar (which is what I’m currently using).
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How to Become a Writer - 0 views
Hyphenating Prefixes - 0 views
140 Websites That Pay Writers in 2014 - 0 views
Why Failure IS an Option for Writers | Positive Writer - 0 views
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Stop making failure a negative thing and start writing. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes and start creating. And if you do mess up, do your best to learn from it. Trust me, you’ll be much better off.
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What if your first book was sold to a publisher quickly, but then each of your next 5 books were turned down? That exact scenario happened to none other than, Danielle Steel, currently the best selling author alive and the fourth bestselling author of all time.
9 Ways to Promote Your Writing Without Being a Jerk | Positive Writer - 0 views
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I found out the hard way that if you’re not going to self-promote your work, then you might as well not even write it for public consumption.
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Did you know that Henry Ford created a full-scale motion picture department for the Ford Motor Company and that the department itself rivaled all of Hollywood’s studios at the time (1914)? The first movie produced by Mr. Ford’s movie department (Highland Park) was, “How Henry Ford Makes One Thousand Cars a Day.” Does that sound self-promotional to you?
Complacent vs. Complaisant - 0 views
3 Steps for Creating Meaningful Goals That Will Help You Make Progress as a Writer - 0 views
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This goes beyond setting goals for individual projects and instead spans all parts of your writing life, from pitching to craft to the business side.
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Brainstorm all the things you’d love to see yourself accomplishing as a writer. Once you’ve got your ideas down on paper, streamline those thoughts by writing in one sentence that encompasses your overall objective for writing.
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Each big picture requires a different set of tasks. And each short-term goal will flow naturally from your big picture goal.
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