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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?
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Writer Unboxed » Recovering the Joy In Writing - 0 views

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Today I hear it called podfade and blogfade... it is burning out nonetheless...

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Complacent vs. Complaisant - 0 views

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"Both complacent and complaisant descend from Latin complacere, "to please, to be pleasant," but they have acquired different meanings in English."

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Theme Week: How to Socialize Your Posts for Maximum Effect : @ProBlogger - 0 views

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If you have more time on your hands, you can of course choose to engage in more social networks. Just don’t overcommit and end up spreading yourself too thin!
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Get 10 successful bloggers from different niches in a room and ask them which social networks are best for driving traffic to their blogs, and you’ll get a different answer from each one as to where their readers hang out in greatest numbers.
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One of the things that I’d highly recommend you ponder when it comes to this is to think about developing a rhythm to your sharing.
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Of course the other thing to do when you’re resharing the same piece of content is to mix up the timings of your updates. If you first tweet a piece of content at 9am – at least wait a few hours to reshare it so that others in different parts of the world are likely to be online. The same thing applies to other networks (although I’d wait longer than a few hours to reshare on networks like Facebook or Google+). Also consider avoiding sharing during those times of the day that are particularly ‘noisy’. Sometimes sharing during times that you’d think your audience isn’t online is actually best. Dan Zarrella calls this ‘contra-competitive timing’ and has some great data on the topic here.
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2013's 11 hottest SEO copywriting posts » SEO Copywriting - 0 views

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Just what is says.

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Growing Your Blog One Reader At a Time - 0 views

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Building your blog’s foundation requires some significant work if you want it to stand the test of time.
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I’m talking about real people who engage with you in regards to your blog on a regular basis
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the more you post the faster your blog will grow.
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a great headline
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3 Times You Should STOP Writing - 0 views

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While I personally feel that you should write daily, this article does give three good times to just "let go".

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Writer Unboxed » Underwriting Versus Overwriting: Just Write - 0 views

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The Best Shots Fired in the Oxford Comma Wars | Mental Floss - 0 views

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There has been a long debate about what some call the Oxford comma. Personally, I use it. I use it for clarity, out of habit, because I feel it "looks" right, and likely because I lean OCD. Do you use it?

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Is Paranoia Preventing YOU From Finding Success as a Writer? | Positive Writer - 0 views

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A good perspective to stay motivated. Also includes a link to a free e-book.

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Theme Week: Publish Your Blog Post Without SEO, and 1000s of Visits Will Be Forever Los... - 0 views

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Search, and Google in particular (with 90% of worldwide share), still drive vastly greater quantities of traffic than all the social networks combined (some good research from DefineMG here). Given Google’s 3.5+ Billion searches performed each day, that shouldn’t be a surprise, but to many bloggers, thinking about search, Google, and all that “SEO stuff” has been put aside in favor of Facebook shares, likes, tweets, +1s, and the more visible feedback and applause that come from social sources.
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Thankfully, you can resolve to make this a priority in the future. It may sound like a bad infomercial, but you can substantially upgrade your blog’s SEO potential with less than 5 minutes per post. Here’s how:
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The other keyword research source I’d encourage you to pursue is Google’s autosuggest.
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Once you’ve found a few keywords that might work, modify your blog post’s title to include it if you can.
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John Lemke on 04 Jun 14

Most people publish to be found and read. If that is the case, how can you ignore SEO?

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7 Writing Prompts to Get Your Creative Juices Flowing - 0 views

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I think these are some decent writing exercises.

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How to Make Absolutely Sure Your Article Gets Killed - 0 views

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When your article assignment is to write 1,000 words and you turn in 2,000 words, it creates all kinds of problems for your editor. She’ll need to comb through your article and decide which 1,000 words she can cut. After all, she has only so much space, so she has to make it fit. Now, don’t get all wishy-washy on me and turn the extra material into a bonus sidebar. Just squish all those extra words in there and let your editor deal with it.
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Avoid showing even a modicum of personality. If you want your article killed, it should look like it was written by a robot…a robot that doesn’t speak English.
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When you get an assignment, your client will send you a little thing called an assignment letter, which details the specs of the assignment. Ignore this.
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If those don’t work out, over-rely on source-finding services like ProfNet and Help a Reporter Out, using whoever happens to respond — and whatever you do, do NOT check out the sources you get from there to make sure they’re credible.
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When the editor asks you for backup on your facts, tell him you’re the backup. And whenever you get the chance, inject your opinion into the article.
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A Useful Reminder About 'An' - 0 views

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In modern usage, the form a is used in front of words that begin with a consonant sound; an is used in front of words that begin with a vowel sound.
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John Lemke on 28 Aug 14

I have seen the examples of misuse more often than I would care to admit. Just this morning I was debating whether it should be "a Ottawa teen" or "an Ottawa teen" because my spelling and grammar checker told me right was wrong. This article focuses on the confusion caused by "u".

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5 Books Freelancers Should Read Now - 0 views

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Five books for the freelancer. I added them to my list.

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Corroboratively vs. Collaboratively - 0 views

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The verb corroborate means “to strengthen or confirm.”
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John Lemke on 22 Aug 14

One means to strengthen, the other involves working as part of a team.

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Three Google Searches That Will Help You Get Paid to Write Now « FundsforWriters - 0 views

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Avoid Loser Writing Clients With This Quickie Checklist - 0 views

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I made it a pledge to start be serious about my freelance work in January. This list could have saved me a few courses at the school of hard knocks.

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Writer Unboxed » Imagining Beyond One's Own Experience, or What the Fiction W... - 0 views

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