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Bring Your Business Book to Life With Drama
Where is the drama within the nuts and bolts of your everyday business activity? Find it, focus on it and bring it to life in your writing. Without it, you will lose your reader within the first couple of chapters. Readers need as much help to stay engaged with a good book as possible; it’s your job to help them stay on the page.
Marketing for Authors: What it Can and Can’t Do
Are you posting everywhere and getting little response? Don’t give up on it. Your brand is becoming known, and people only buy when they’re ready to buy – not before.
Hiring a Writer? Here’s What You Should Look For …
You’ve chosen to save yourself time to focus on what you do best by bringing in an expert to write for your business. That’s a brilliant idea. But how do you know that you’re entrusting your brand to the ideal writer?
Do you need a content writer, a ghostwriter, a scrptwriter or a copywriter? Here’s the lowdown …
Train Yourself to Write Anywhere
Many writers learn how to write in various places, with all sorts of distractions around them. It takes training, though: if you've never written anywhere other than in one spot, you'll find it hard writing somewhere else at first. If you find it impossible to write …
Writing Morning Pages
Julia Cameron discusses the benefits of creating the habit of scribbling down everything that comes into your mind for several minutes at the same time every day – preferably early in the morning before others start making demands of your time.
How to Find Content Ideas Quickly
The most important thing in becoming a regular content writer is that you develop a writing habit. That’s hard to do unless you make it fun. Getting creative is supposed to be fun, after all.