The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

How I started writing and became an indie author — you can find my timeline here The early days of writing and self-publishing, including mistakes I made and changes along the way Rewriting early books and applying lessons learned about writing Inspiration for my fiction as J.F. Like if I could write something?'.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

How I started writing and became an indie author — you can find my timeline here The early days of writing and self-publishing, including mistakes I made and changes along the way Rewriting early books and applying lessons learned about writing Inspiration for my fiction as J.F. Like if I could write something?'.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Over the last 18 months I’ve built two profitable businesses with the help of social media. One business was a sure thing; the other was a side project. My side project was a blog: womeninbusiness.com.au. I wrote about social media case studies, the basics of online marketing, and my journey so far.

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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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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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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

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

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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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. Social Traffic Visits that come from social media platforms.

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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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The Creative Penn

MAY 1, 2023

In the intro, author newsletter tips [ BookBub ]; Mark Dawson's 20+ year writing journey ; Thoughts on 20Books Seville and London Book Fair with me and Orna Ross [ Ask ALLi ]; HarperCollins is testing AI-generated content, reported by Jane Friedman [ The Hotsheet ]. Write to discover what you think.” It's quite the opposite.

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Fat Joe

APRIL 28, 2023

Social Media Trends – 2012 Social media is another force that threatened (and still threatens) to kill SEO, according to some. The chief concern of social media trends from industry commentators was that users would remain within the confines of social media platforms, taking demand away from traditional search.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. What I ended up doing was to hire a blogger to take on one of the projects that I was running, to kill off the majority of the rest of my blogs and to focus upon two blogs (ProBlogger and DPS). There’s a fine line between: 1. In doing so I saw immediate results.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. What I ended up doing was to hire a blogger to take on one of the projects that I was running, to kill off the majority of the rest of my blogs and to focus upon two blogs (ProBlogger and DPS). There’s a fine line between: 1. In doing so I saw immediate results.

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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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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. What I ended up doing was to hire a blogger to take on one of the projects that I was running, to kill off the majority of the rest of my blogs and to focus upon two blogs (ProBlogger and DPS). There’s a fine line between: 1. In doing so I saw immediate results.

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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 Hoth

JANUARY 19, 2023

Semrush first came about in 2008 as the brainchild of Oleg Shchegolev, their current CEO. There are tools for researching topics, writing SEO-friendly content, managing your content calendar, and more. The SEO Writing Assistant is probably the most helpful feature for creating content. What’s that? Guru Plan: $229.95

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Thorn is a bestselling horror and dark fantasy writer, and he also writes nonfiction for authors. J and I have co-written several books together, including Risen Gods, Co-writing a book , and American Demon Hunter's Sacrifice. Thorn is a bestselling horror and dark fantasy writer, and he also writes nonfiction for authors.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

Brin is working on other, more personal projects that reach beyond Google.Brin and Page are trying to help solve the world’s energy and climate problems at Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, which invests in the alternative energy industry to find wider sources of renewable energy. 5 Sergey Brin: Founder of Google is worth $136.6

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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

JULY 26, 2016

Batching is not a new idea, Darren wrote about how batch processing made him 10 times more productive back in 2008, but it is still a very powerful technique to improve your productivity. Blog writing. Social media. By ProBlogger Expert Nicole Avery. Content planning. Sourcing images. Image processing. Blog maintenance.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

With social media platforms becoming the online communication too du jour, and with smartphones and other devices becoming for many the preferred platform, blogs have fallen to the wayside in favour of shorter, punchier messages specifically tailored to hit a reader’s buttons. People Interact on Social Media, Not Your Sites.

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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. Eventually, we stopped talking about it and just got on with writing books and reaching readers. I have been writing for publication since 2005. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2011

This year, I tried to go outside of the social media echo-chamber and focus on people who are expanding beyond their blogs. Kristi Hines is a freelance writer, online marketing consultant, and social media enthusiast that blogs at Kikolani. These are 20 people who stood out to me this year. 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. They’ll be teaching everything they’ve learned as bloggers, eager Instagrammers, and as Social Media Editors.

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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. They’ll be teaching everything they’ve learned as bloggers, eager Instagrammers, and as Social Media Editors.

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

“If you could only write one type of content on your blogs – what would it be?” I also think writing this type of content is why I have had success over the last 13 years. I also think writing this type of content is why I have had success over the last 13 years. Full Transcript.

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ProBlogger

JULY 28, 2016

“If you could only write one type of content on your blogs – what would it be?” I also think writing this type of content is why I have had success over the last 13 years. I also think writing this type of content is why I have had success over the last 13 years. Full Transcript.

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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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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2010

It might just be that the person you think is making it is just very good at playing the social media game, but not at making any money. But there is something sexy about completing a project that you’re proud of and that results in a happy client who refers you to someone else while you cash his cheque at your bank.

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