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. Joe: Sure, sure.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

How can we shift our mindset to thinking about a long-term creative career? This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors.

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The Creative Penn

AUGUST 7, 2023

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. How can authors reframe marketing to be more of a positive choice, something even creative and worth investing in? Joanna: I love your accent!

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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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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 29, 2024

This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors. It's writing plus a little bit of game design.

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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. Was it worth it?

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ProBlogger

MARCH 2, 2022

Recently, I’ve been exploring five strategies that I’d employ to promote my blog if I were starting all over again. I said earlier in the series that I’m assuming ‘great content’ is being added to the hypothetical new blog that we’re promoting. What can you learn from them? Further Reading.

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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. How can we use the tools to achieve our creative purpose in an ethical manner, and understand that we need to curate, edit, and take responsibility for any usage? Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 19, 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. You can also subscribe to the Kobo Writing Life podcast for interviews with successful indie authors. Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

How can you embrace book marketing as a creative part of your author business? 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.” How can you effectively market your backlist over time?

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 24, 2023

In the intro, Alliance of Independent Authors Indie Author Income Survey results ; Experience of book to TV show [and previous episode, Johnny B Truant's creative pivots ]; Michael Anderle expands on his AI-assisted goals [ 20Books To 50K Facebook ]; Loop earplugs. Halima: I always wanted to write.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

How can generative AI tools augment and amplify your creativity? This podcast is sponsored by Written Word Media , which makes book marketing a breeze by offering quick, easy and effective ways for authors to promote their books. Thorn is a bestselling horror and dark fantasy writer, and he also writes nonfiction for authors.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

I think that's the other thing, the more the years go by, the more we know people who've disappeared and fallen off the radar , who've stopped writing. So you'd get loads and loads of visibility when you ran a free promotion for the three days that you had with Select. He's a nurse in the UK, writing fantasy books.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

How does marketing without talking about or promoting our product/service help us create leads and sales? The article covers content creation, promotion, and distribution costs.). Yet, to be truly creative – and offer something different and worthwhile – we need to deliberately do activities that make the greatest difference.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Dark and paranormal romance author Kitty Thomas discusses negative attitudes toward the romance genre (including her own before she came to love it), whether writing to a formula is as easy as all that, why she thinks sex scenes are the most difficult thing to write, the heartbreaking nature of publishing, and more.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 31, 2017

For example, at Digital Photography School we teach people how to move from being stuck in Auto Mode with their cameras, and help them get creative control and take better photos. While giving someone creative control over their camera doesn’t feel that ‘big’, it can actually have a far bigger impact than you might imagine.

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Income Diary

JANUARY 29, 2024

Social and Referral Traffic: Understanding the traffic originating from social media platforms and other external sites is important, though it can be influenced by paid promotions and partnerships. Can indicate robust social media strategy or paid promotions. Suggests strong brand presence and customer loyalty.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

He continued writing programs while attending Harvard University in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and began his career as an engineer at OPNET Technologies. He was hired as an assistant by Elton Rule, then west coast head of ABC who was promoted to network President. He served as a lead developer at Batiq.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 17, 2023

How can you combine multiple options for a more creatively satisfying — and profitable — author career? Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid, writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. Then when I got done writing it, I thought, well, this is really great. Look at you now.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

Why Bloggers are Perfectly Positioned to Become Successful Authors You’re a blogger, which puts you in a perfect position to write a book. You, on the other hand, are blogging, which means you are writing. You have a writing habit. More valuable than your existing content is the writing practice you’re developing.

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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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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2017

Here are a few of my favourites: How Creatives Should Negotiate via Tim Ferris. He created Bushwalking Blog in 2008 to provide detailed reports of his hikes. Mid 2013, she launched her new blog The Write Life. Ramit Sethi: I Will Teach You To Monetize (In 6 Steps). Ramit Sethi Exposed: How He Earns Millions Blogging. Neil Fahey.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 30, 2015

On August 14 and 15, more than 700 bloggers and online creatives descended upon the RACV Royal Pines on Australia’s Gold Coast for two days of learning and networking at the ProBlogger Training Event. Action: write down three tasks you can batch process. I wrote How Batch Processing Made Me 10 Times More Productive in 2008.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

The use of feeds has diminished since Google Reader was laid to rest, and I think when Gmail and other clients started filtering promotional material away from the “Primary Inbox”, blog updates via email became less important. What you can do about it: Don’t write off guest-blogging altogether – it still has its place.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 3, 2024

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. Then what about foil?

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ProBlogger

JULY 13, 2016

I started my blog back in 2008, not long after giving birth to my own daughter. I quickly realised that I loved writing and the online world, and it soon became a whole new career path. It’s great for them to get creative. Can you give me some background on your blog, and how it led you to do Photo A Day?

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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

JANUARY 13, 2013

In September 2012, I launched my latest online venture, The Grand Life , where I interview creative professionals and entrepreneurs, and quickly realized that I had a lot to learn about building a successful interview site. DSG: I started in 2008. So 2008 and 2009, it was really for local entrepreneurs in St.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Maria Popova describes herself as “interestingness curator and semi-secret geek obsessed with design, science, storytelling and combinatorial creativity” She is the editor of the much-loved Brain Pickings , which she described as a “a destination for indiscriminate curiosity.” Maria Popova. Corbett Barr.

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ProBlogger

JULY 13, 2016

I started my blog back in 2008, not long after giving birth to my own daughter. I quickly realised that I loved writing and the online world, and it soon became a whole new career path. It’s great for them to get creative. Can you give me some background on your blog, and how it led you to do Photo A Day?

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2010

You tell yourself you should be moving faster, working on releasing your own product sooner, spending more time on Twitter promoting your work – just like he did. Will Creativity Build or Break your Business? I was just recently researching various tactics and strategies – what worked in 2008 versus 2009 and today.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 1, 2010

Without a reputation, referrals or testimonials to convince people to hire you, you have to be creative and work extra hard on getting your name out there. All it takes is some time to write helpful posts. 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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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

I loved blogging because I can write and delete and edit and write and delete and edit again. There’s a company called Music Radio Creative that can give you the whole package with the music and the intro, the outro, and the sounds and the sound effects and stuff. Write those down too. With podcasting, you can do that.

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