07 Apr 2021
Have you often wondered how to get the best from using YouTube? Well, there are lots of people who will offer you tips to help you find out, but whether or not they are workable has to be down to the individual. It isn’t often we make the following disclaimer, but as…
YouTube Ranking & Discoverability
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02 Apr 2021
I have previously talked about showing not telling, and points of view and tenses. All these are useful elements to be aware of, and to get right, especially when writing dialogue. Writing something such as …
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04 Mar 2021
Good storytellers differentiate between a crisis (an emergency, such as a car crash or an illness) and conflict (a clash of wills, a difficult moral choice, or an internal mental struggle). Beginning authors often focus on the exciting crisis rather than the conflict …
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11 Feb 2021
We think of writers having an effect on TV but don’t often find that this works in reverse. Yes we know TV scripts have been created by writers but, when they set out their ideas it isn’t to influence …
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27 Jan 2021
As a reviewer and editor I have to say that sometimes writers do get the words in their sentences muddled up. However, they are not the only ones. People tend to write signs without….
Proofreading Isn’t Really Dead
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26 Jan 2021
Blog posts or articles offer you authors a unique direct and personal way to reach your readers. The problem is that it’s not always easy to know what sort of content can be effective in order to attain that goal. Many authors tend to publish blog content….
A Few Creative Blog Post Ideas
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04 Jan 2021
One of the most annoying problems we writers sometimes experience is that we have far too much to write about on a specific topic. In fact it can be almost as frustrating as not knowing what to say. Either way, you are left trying to figure out which pieces of information ……
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12 Dec 2020
There is a saying that ‘Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder!’ However, when it comes to buying a product, especially books, it’s how it looks which first attracts any buyer. Today I am going to chat about some of the pet hates…..
Pet Hates About Book Cover Design