The Creative Penn

APRIL 1, 2024

Join my community and get access to extra videos on writing craft, author business, AI and behind the scenes info, plus an extra Q&A show a month where I answer Patron questions. The spike often lasts only as long as you actively market the book or pay for ongoing traffic through advertising.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Shane Millar shares tips for writing brilliant beginnings, regardless of your genre. Different writing processes for fiction and non-fiction How the basics of marketing don’t change and what is working for Shane since he started earlier in 2022, 15 years after Joanna. You can find Shane Millar at swmillar.com. Welcome, Shane.

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Grammarly

APRIL 18, 2024

The name DALL-E was inspired by a combination of the names of two well-known figures: the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí and WALL-E, the robot in the 2008 Pixar movie of the same name. Work smarter with Grammarly The AI writing partner for anyone with work to do Get Grammarly Who created DALL-E?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

What if I told you it’s possible to write about your passions and make money with a blog? goop is a wellness and lifestyle brand started by actress Gwyneth Paltrow as a weekly lo-fi newsletter back in 2008. It’s not a true media publisher, and he makes money selling advertising space. I want you to aim higher. You name it.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid, writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. Limited to 10.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Joanna Penn writes non-fiction for authors and is an award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author as J.F. You write what you want, with no concern about how an algorithm will treat your release. My How to Write a Novel Workbook is only available on my store. Imagine this….

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I've had a draft of How to Write a Novel in my Work In Progress drive for over five years, but this year, I overcame resistance and finally finished it. Yes, creatively, because I am much happier about advertising the early books in the series now. I also wrote and published two short stories. I offered it, but I didn't focus on it.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 30, 2023

Why might using your face to advertise your books be a good idea? Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid, writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. So first up — Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. What might be the future of selling direct?

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This post was first published on: Jun 17, 2008 . It can happen for many reasons whether it be your life getting busy, suffering from a bout of bloggers block or becoming distracted by another project. One thing that I mention in that post is to try writing shorter posts. Photo by Juli Moreira on Unsplash.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

“If you just keep writing/querying/marketing/etc you will eventually be successful. Joanna Penn and Orna Ross discuss Quit: The Power of Knowing When To Walk Away by Annie Duke and give examples of what they have quit around writing, book marketing, and more. Just don't give up.” When is quitting worthwhile?

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Updated post first published Jun 17, 2008 . It can happen for many reasons whether it be your life getting busy, suffering from a bout of bloggers block or becoming distracted by another project. One thing that I mention in that post is to try writing shorter posts. Photo by Juli Moreira on Unsplash. Letting Your Blog Go #1.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Updated post first published Jun 17, 2008 . It can happen for many reasons whether it be your life getting busy, suffering from a bout of bloggers block or becoming distracted by another project. One thing that I mention in that post is to try writing shorter posts. Photo by Juli Moreira on Unsplash. Letting Your Blog Go #1.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

You can support the show at www.patreon.com/thecreativepenn Joanna Penn writes non-fiction for authors and is an award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller and dark fantasy author as J.F. I write books and I record and publish audio, although I also do some professional speaking and teaching as well.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 14, 2023

.” [ The Verge ]; Amazon AI tool coming for writing product descriptions [ The Information ]; FTC antitrust lawsuit [ Politico ]; Amazon is “eliminating dozens of its private label brands” which may help “placate antitrust regulators” [ Wall St Journal ]; “Amazon will be disrupted,” says Jeff Bezos (in 2013) [ Insider ].

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Income Diary

JANUARY 29, 2024

Understanding whether the website was a passion project, a side hustle, or a full-blown business can provide insights into how the site has been managed and the attention it has received. A website’s history as a side project or a dedicated business venture impacts the manner and intensity of negotiations during the acquisition process.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 17, 2010

One business was a sure thing; the other was a side project. My side project was a blog: womeninbusiness.com.au. I had been working online since 2001 and by 2008 was confident I’d accumulated enough skills and experience that finding work wouldn’t be a problem. Ten steps to sustainability. Establish a personal blog.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

Show Notes The creation of the Ravensfield Collection using AI art How AI art can be used as a marketing tool for authors Available tools for an AI-augmented creative How to write AI prompts to achieve the best results Concerns about intellectual property when training models What are the different kinds of Creative Commons licenses?

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 22, 2023

So first up — Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing. So I was like, if you would do for one year, any exercise, or mix, like getting up early, writing 1000 words a day, do goal setting, I'm sure in one year, you will be in a better place than you are now , or in an even better place if you're already in a good place.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid , writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing, and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

His latest project, Examine.Com, garners around 70,000 visitors a day and is a seven-figure business. He created Bushwalking Blog in 2008 to provide detailed reports of his hikes. So many bloggers look at traditional methods of monetization such as advertising, affiliate income and developing online products. Neil Fahey.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Host blogs, hounded constantly by advertisers looking for low-cost linkbacks, have tightened their submission guidelines to the point that getting in is almost as strenuous as a job application at Google. What you can do about it: Don’t write off guest-blogging altogether – it still has its place. What You Can Do About It?

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

Nikki started Styling You in July 2008 and today – 9 years later – she’s not only grown her audience, but she’s built a pretty amazing business around her blog. We talk about her approach to writing, where she gets her ideas for content from and her approach to planning content. It’s almost nine years to the date.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

Nikki started Styling You in July 2008 and today – 9 years later – she’s not only grown her audience, but she’s built a pretty amazing business around her blog. We talk about her approach to writing, where she gets her ideas for content from and her approach to planning content. It’s almost nine years to the date.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

Before I start, I want to just mention a little personal project that I’m working on at the moment that I’m looking for a little bit of help on. If you’ve got a couple of moments, you can really help me to shape this little project that’s coming up. Thanks for the question, Phil. Two, I don’t have hair.

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ProBlogger

JULY 4, 2010

If you asked me, I would have said it’s what some teenager writes when they get home from school or something. That being said, you know, I just, I really got kind of sucked into it and the more I read other blogs, the more I was excited to write about my own and it just kind of fed off itself. I had no idea what a blog was.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2016

Before I start, I want to just mention a little personal project that I’m working on at the moment that I’m looking for a little bit of help on. If you’ve got a couple of moments, you can really help me to shape this little project that’s coming up. Thanks for the question, Phil. Two, I don’t have hair.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

He’ brilliant on that particular topic and a really great teacher when it comes to writing and communicating on a blog. We’ve also got Kelly Exeter, who’s brilliant on writing, editing, also design, self-publishing. On day one, when I wrote that first blog post, I knew that I needed to write content.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

And yet, the writing advice is still good for other things — just not targeted enough at me to pay for. Bloggers who use advertising were money-grubbing sell outs. Various types of payment models for bloggers could indeed get rid of all that Adsense and affiliate stuff and shoddy banner advertising and whatnot.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2018

OK, maybe writing this article as a comic script isn’t such a great idea, even if prose is at a disadvantage when discussing such a visual medium. Darren Sanchez, editor and project manager for Marvel Custom Solutions, agrees. But just because someone can write or draw reasonably well doesn’t necessarily mean they can create a comic.

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