The Creative Penn

MAY 5, 2023

We are only at the beginning of the opportunities of AI for wider society as well as for creativity and art, and it’s important that authors, writers, and other creatives be involved in order to shape the future as we want it to be. If you support the show, you also get the extra monthly patron-only Q&A audio.

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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. I've been selling direct since 2008 when I started online, but it's always been an afterthought for book sales. I also wrote and published two short stories. Blockchain / NFTs.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the intro, ACX lowering audiobook prices, Chokepoint Capitalism , Audiblegate , Copyright valuation [ Dean Wesley Smith ]; courses on copyright ; Happy Money ; Write to Riches ; Failing to predict the future [ James Altucher ]; Pilgrimage Kickstarter (until 5 Feb, 2023), then find it here. So welcome to the show, Steve.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

Mark Dawson is the award-winning USA Today best-selling author of the John Milton series and other thrillers, with over 6 million copies sold. Joanna: Mark Dawson is the award-winning USA Today best-selling author of the John Milton series and other thrillers, with over 6 million copies sold. Adam writes fantasy.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

In the intro, I mention the 6 Figure Author Podcast , The Writers Well Podcast , and Reid Hoffman's new Possible podcast. Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid, writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. If you find it for sale elsewhere, then it is a secondhand copy.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After many years of people saying, “AI can never be creative, AI could never write fiction (i.e. You can support the show at www.patreon.com/thecreativepenn Tim Boucher is a hyperrealist AI artist and writer specializing in questionable alternative realities. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 7, 2023

How can you leverage the tools available for authors to sell more copies? Google rolls AI writing into Docs and Gmail. It probably is, apart from actually writing the book, which is one struggle, many writers also struggle with marketing. It's like, well, I'm not a salesperson, I'm a writer. It's a spectrum, right.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

Show Notes Halima's writing and PR journey Finding the “story behind the story” Pitching your story from different angles Balancing PR and protecting personal stories/privacy Tailoring your press release How to prepare for an interview Is PR worth it? Halima: I always wanted to write. And it did great.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 21, 2023

Plus, my next book for authors Writing the Shadow: Turn Your Inner Darkness Into Words will be out on Kickstarter in October, sign up for the pre-launch here ; Great examples of creative extras in Sara Rosett's campaign Murder in the Alps ; and I'm on the Travelling Through Podcast on a walk and talk along the canal. Joanna: Absolutely.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 20, 2023

CEO of Author Media, and this is the show for writers who want to build their platform, sell more books, and make a living writing books worth talking about. She writes nonfiction for authors, and she's a New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author. I'm Thomas Umstattd, Jr., She's a friend of the show.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 6, 2024

How can you use automation and tools to help you streamline your creative and business processes so you can get back to the writing? So I stayed in Ireland, and I sort of put up a bat signal for friends to write with. Especially as creatives, I hear a lot of people say, “I just want to write the book.”

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 19, 2022

[ Rachael Herron ]; My Pilgrimage Kickstarter pre-launch page ; History Quill Writer's Conference ; Get 33% off my ebooks, audiobooks and courses for the rest of 2022. This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. Jane: Thank you.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Tell us a bit about you and how you got into writing and publishing. And of course, everyone would always say, “You must write a book. You must write a book.” And that's really how I got started, I made every mistake that we caution against in our books for writers. million sold worldwide. Where's your book?

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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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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Mark started blogging in 2008 in the dating space, before pivoting to personal development in 2011. He attributes most of his success to the fact that he is very seriously dedicated to the craft of writing. I should note here though, so people don’t get super impressed or anything: I wasn’t writing the entire six months.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Write and publish what you want, get paid every day for your books, and control your customer data and relationships. Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid, writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

Ryan Holiday is a writer and media strategist. Behind The Book Campaign: How to Sell 30,000 Copies in Six Weeks. He is a prolific writer and content curator and shares so many useful resources via his Twitter account. He created Bushwalking Blog in 2008 to provide detailed reports of his hikes. Ryan Holiday. Neil Fahey.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When Chris Garrett and I authored the first edition of the ProBlogger hard cover book back in 2008, I noticed a strange trend. The key for me here is not to copy what others are doing but to learn from it, and also look for opportunities to differentiate yourself from the field. Understand your readers.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When Chris Garrett and I authored the first edition of the ProBlogger hard cover book back in 2008, I noticed a strange trend. The key for me here is not to copy what others are doing but to learn from it, and also look for opportunities to differentiate yourself from the field. Understand your readers.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 21, 2012

Whereas in days gone by, we could pretty much write anything, anytime, for any reason, and either no one cared, or if there was a concern, the legal jurisdiction we fell in to was largely undefined or near-impossible to enforce. creation of an independent product rather than assembling writings and postings of others, or.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

This can prove very useful when you need the extra motivation to start writing you next post.The above table is a copy from my notes. In my case, I was blogging about fitness since 2008 so I knew the industry very well and I believe this is one of the reasons that the blog’s traffic increased so quickly.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 31, 2014

When Chris Garrett and I authored the first edition of the ProBlogger hard cover book back in 2008, I noticed a strange trend. The key for me here is not to copy what others are doing but to learn from it, and also look for opportunities to differentiate yourself from the field. Understand your readers.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 30, 2011

Ramit expected to sell 100 copies in the first year. When the economy tanked in late 2008, nobody cared about investing. Sometimes the information your readers are looking for isn’t what you usually write. On day two the Wall Street Journal and MSN started writing about and linking to his series. He sold over 1000.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 18, 2018

Write content, update archives, and drive traffic. Treat every post you write, every attempt you make to promote your blog and every tool you use as learning experiences that shape your future. It takes time to learn about your niche and to find your writing style, to find your voice. Seeming to do is not doing.”.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

All it takes is some time to write helpful posts. If you can’t write helpful advice a few times a month about the problem you aim to solve as a freelancer, you might just be in the wrong business. You can even write the non-winners and thank them for entering. Your blog is essentially a marketing tool for your business.

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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. The Guardian explains their stategy very well: [link] O’Reilly TOC also provided in 2008 (this how long this discussion has been going) some insight… How Do Publishers and Authors Get Paid in a “Free&# World?

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ProBlogger

APRIL 23, 2013

10 Years and $420,000 later… I’d love to be able to calculate exactly how much I’ve earned from Amazon in that time but their current reporting system only goes back as far as 2008. I share these results because, over the years, I’ve heard many many bloggers write off the Amazon Affiliate program as not being worth the time. *

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Write to their needs and you’ll earn a top-of-mind spot. But,” John writes, “what if you’re not a great writer? He tells how he honed his writing skills by assembling a team that complements and executes his ideas. It’s an international best-seller, with over 350,000 copies in print in over 25 languages.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

Kelly Exeter (writer and editor) . 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. I’m not the best writer out there. Jeff Goins.

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