Needless words, the weak and the pointless words steal power from your writing. We all let them sneak in during the first draft, so don’t panic – you’re not alone. It’s what we do about them later that counts. Removing…
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Continuity in writing is important to me. Maybe obsessively so. I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I catch continuity errors in my own work, I cringe. I mean, writers are supposed to be smarter than the…
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Marketing any published book is hard work. When you’re going it alone as an independent author, even more so. Understanding how different social media avenues and search engines work can put your marketing farther ahead. It’s not enough to toss…
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Writing time – as writers, the thing we all need the most and the thing stolen from us from when life gets in the way. It’s a constant fight to carve out writing time from any regular day. The annoyance…
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Word count isn’t something to worry about while you’re writing your first draft. I’m a big advocate of “it takes a long as it takes” to get the story out. Word count is something to consider later, after you get…
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