Your Book is a Business
Once the final draft is written, you're no longer an author. You're an entrepreneur with a product to sell, and it's critical that you start thinking that way. Instead of spending your time on editing and proofreading, you've got to invest your time in marketing activities. More ...
25 Top Places to Publish Your Content and Market Your Business
If you're publishing your content in a only single place, you're missing out on a huge amount of exposure. You need to publish your contentt as widely as possible across a whole network of different content sites. Here's a list of 25 publishing platforms and content websites. More ...
Affect, Effect - What's the Difference?
For the vast majority of the time, affect is a verb and effect is a noun. If youaffect something, it produces an effect, just as a comes before e in the alphabet. The recession affected the company's profits. The effect was a 14 percent decrease in sales." More ...
How to Rewrite Someone Else's Story
You don't need to come up with your own story from scratch, there are tons of short stories out there that have potential, but they need you to give them a little improvement. More ...
The $75,000 Writing Career
In the last decade and certainly in the past few years, downsizing in Corporate America has eliminated or scaled down many creative, marketing and communication departments. And in many cases, they're paying freelancers handsomely to pick up the slack. More ...
How to Establish an Online Presence As an Independent Author
In the digital age, the choices of an author changed dramatically. The big publishing houses are not as strong and e-books are becoming more popular each year. It's not hard to see why more authors choose to take the independent route. More ...
Proofreading Tips
When you're writing it's easy to become blind to what's on the page. Here are some tips and suggestions on how to make the proofreading process a little easier. More ...
Plotting a Children's Book
How do we take an idea and develop it into a plot for a children's book? How do we work out what to write once we have the initial idea? Here's a basic plot outline. More ...
The Secrets of Successful Copywriting For The Internet
The most important thing about successful copywriting for the internet, is making a good first impression. When someone visits your website or sales page, or reads your article, that is your chance to get their attention and convince them that you or your internet business are worth knowing about. More ...
Four Tips to Help You Break Into Ghostwriting
Without a doubt the writing is rewarding, there is money to be made, and clients who need ghostwriting services are out there. But the big question for those starting out is: How do you break in? Here are four tips to help get you going. More ...
How to Improve Your Writing - Basic Plot Structure
In discussing plot structure I thought I'd start with the most basic premise - Freytag's Pyramid. According to Freytag, a drama is divided into five parts: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. More ...
Grammar Websites - Best Tool to Learn Correct Grammar?
Using a good onlne grammar checker will make you appear to be more of an expert writer than if you are leaving mistakes in your writing. More ...
Market Your Writing The EEASY Way
Marketing your writing is a skill. The great news is that anyone can learn how to do it. I don?t care how shy, nervous or introverted you are, you can learn how to market your work and have great fun doing it. More ...
How to Write & Sell Simple Information for Fun and Profit
The mechanics behind becoming a successful writer and information packager are presented in this resource that explores how to write and sell simple information in multiple formats, allowing writers to turn specialized knowledge into money-making books and products. More ...
