ProWritingAid

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Want to learn how to write a fiction book? Check out our ten-step guide.

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ProWritingAid

JANUARY 9, 2023

Writing book reviews is a great way to engage with the book-loving community. Here are 5 steps for how to write a book review.

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Jasper

AUGUST 10, 2022

Ready to write your first bestseller? See our expert tips on how to start writing a book. We also share 10 easy steps to follow and 5 must-have writing tools.

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Jasper

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Want to write a book? Struggle with writer's block? Curse of the Blinking Cursor or just don't know where to start? You came to the right place.

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Write to Done

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Writing book reviews is a great option for people who are passionate about books in general or want to get their foot in the door of the book publishing industry. Whether you choose to do it as a side hustle, or want to do it for work, there are a few things you should know […]

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Jasper

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Excited to work on your first book? Speed up your writing process by using Jasper AI. Let’s first look at how long it takes to write your first book using AI.

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Nick Ursborne

APRIL 6, 2024

You have a lot of choices when using AI to write content. Then you have dozens, if not hundreds of new AI-writing platforms, most of which are using these models as the engines that drives them. And that means most AI writing lacks the human touch. The content isn’t badly written. But there IS a problem. Well, you can.

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2023

Do you ever wonder how others edit their writing ? In her book The Art of Memoir , Mary Karr discusses the importance of revision , and she shows us a rough draft of a sentence from her memoir Lit : Mother drove me to college in our yellow station wagon, and every night we stayed at a Holiday Inn, where we got drunk on screwdrivers.

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Enchanting Marketing

APRIL 23, 2024

How good are you at explaining your ideas? Let’s be honest, writing a good explanation is tougher than it seems. Writing works the same. The best writing combines satellite-style zooming out with telephoto-like zooming in. You see how the roads and fields are flooded after months of rain. Shall I show you?

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Enchanting Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2024

In his book Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence , psychologist Dr Daniel Goleman suggests that a reader’s mind typically wanders off 20% to 40% of the time. So, how can you keep your readers engaged? So, below follow 4 ways to use surprise in your writing and keep your readers captivated … 1. Has this happened to you?

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Write Freelance

JANUARY 21, 2023

Finding and enrolling in the best creative writing courses in India has been more difficult than I thought. At least it used to be, seven years ago when I had just dived into freelance writing. I wanted to hone my skills and practice fiction writing too, which is when I started looking for creative writing courses online.

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Enchanting Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2023

And she doesn’t like the tone of her writing at all. Helena is an expert in climate change, and she’d like to write in a conversational tone … As if she’s explaining climate change to a friend while sipping an ice tea at the town plaza. How to write conversationally Some say … Just write like you talk.

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Nick Ursborne

MARCH 12, 2024

They’ve read books, movie scripts and poems that describe emotions. I asked it, “How would you feel if I gave you a puppy?” It replied, “I think I’d be quite puzzled about where to put it or how to take care of it, considering I don’t have hands or a home in the usual sense. We know how it feels.

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Enchanting Marketing

MARCH 7, 2023

Sometimes, I savor a book slowly. I pick the book up, read a few pages, then put it down again. What makes writing worth savoring like that? At school, you probably learned that good writing is coherent, focused, and correct. This book contains 272 pages but it took me almost 7 weeks to read. Only 35 words.

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Melanie Saxton

MAY 2, 2024

When it comes to law journalism, blogging, and authorship, count on me to create compelling content for law firms, private practices, magazines, and books. Below is a magazine write-up from years back about the Christian law firm Simmons & Fletcher. Some are under the impression that they should not sue. Simmons and Fletcher, P.C.,

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Enchanting Marketing

JULY 25, 2023

Uhm, yeah … The most common writing advice is to write daily. But … Daily writing is not possible for everyone. At best, I write daily-ish. But I am always ( well, almost always ) keen to return to writing. A Hemingway bridge keeps momentum going, reduces procrastination, and even helps me write faster.

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Melanie Saxton

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

If you are thinking about writing your unique story but aren’t sure how, now is a great time to get in touch with me for ghostwriting services! A fresh new year awaits us in 2024 — how exciting to put together a plan and finally finish your manuscript! If you need help with your book project, please contact me.

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Jeff Goins

AUGUST 30, 2018

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Enchanting Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

I wanted to write. I loved writing. But still … I’d do anything to delay writing. And then adrenaline would fuel a writing session, often late at night. Some people say: Just put your bum on a seat and write. Some people say: Just put your bum on a seat and write. Until a deadline came close.

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Enchanting Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And beautiful writing? I used to think that beautiful writing was just about a poetic writing style. Beautiful writing is vivid, concise, and rhythmic. But the more I think about it, the more I realize there’s more to beautiful writing than style. Beautiful writing is alive. Beauty is not a luxury.

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Nick Ursborne

APRIL 21, 2023

This time I asked GPT-4 to write me a 40-page Kindle book I could publish on Amazon. This time I asked GPT-4 to write me a 40-page Kindle book I could publish on Amazon. Homework #5 is to write a blog post on this exact topic. But… that makes for a skinny and boring book… just a list really.

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Elna Cain

APRIL 27, 2024

One of the hardest things new freelance writers face is the uphill battle of trying to find a dang writing job. It can be challenging if you don’t know where to look or all you see from freelance platforms like Upwork are low-paying writing jobs. The Freelance Framework features freelance writing jobs.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 24, 2024

Today’s post is by author, editor, and book coach Suzy Vadori. This can lead you to over-edit and tinker with your page until you can’t be sure if you’re making your book better, or worse. This can lead you to over-edit and tinker with your page until you can’t be sure if you’re making your book better, or worse.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2015, I attended a writing retreat with Natalie Goldberg and had a terrible revelation. Now, nine years later, I have a solid writing community that continues to grow and support me. Literary community is the collective connected through the making of literature: writing, reading, and publishing. Word folks, of all kinds.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 13, 2024

For years now, the Indie Author Project has made an effort to find the best self-published books in communities across the U.S. Her writing has been published by Terror House Magazine, Horror Tree, Defenestration, and Amsterdam Quarterly. You know how people say you should write the book you wish someone would write?

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Grammarly

APRIL 9, 2024

An epistolary novel entails a type of writing that tells stories through letters and other documentation, putting the reader into the head of one or more characters. Work smarter with Grammarly The AI writing partner for anyone with work to do Get Grammarly What is an epistolary novel?

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Grammarly

MARCH 26, 2024

Book summaries play a crucial role in guiding our reading choices. The saying goes that one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but the reality is that the brief paragraphs found on a book’s back cover often influence our decisions as we browse library shelves. What is a book summary?

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

How can you write a memoir that is emotionally honest and revealing enough for readers to care, and cope with the inevitable fear of judgment that evokes? How can you write about real places and people in memoir? Show Notes What kind of book do you want to write?

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 17, 2024

Yet, what little I had read about boundaries when it came to writing (Protect your time! and how much I’ve learned since I began the journey, have revealed a lot about the ways I still need to grow to become the writer I want to be. Photo by Erin Larson on Unsplash Today’s post is by writer Mirella Stoyanova ( @mirellastoyanova ).

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Making things more awkward, my novel’s editor and my agent, who both lived in the area, were there, witnesses to just how wildly unpopular my book seemed to be. Mercifully, they took their seats and what began as one of the most cringeworthy nights of my writing career transformed into possibly the loveliest.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 27, 2024

The more painful the event, the more you’ll want to write about it. To figure out what’s important, and how to write about it, you need to identify your memoir’s beats. Beats are part of the Beat Sheet tool Blake Snyder created for his book Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need.

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 14, 2023

This month’s Ask the Editor is sponsored by The Writing Consultancy. Dear Dejected, There are three reasons your book is getting rejected: The query isn’t selling the book or your professionalism. The book feels dated (despite the argument in the query that it’s in tune with current events). Want to be considered?

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Because this is still how you send information to the media. Here is a simple example in the book world: It is very likely that someone will review or feature your book and lift copy straight from your release, which is exactly what you want. Why am I writing press materials? is writing about.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Photo by Daisa TJ Today’s post is by romance author and book coach Trisha Jenn Loehr ( @trishajennreads ). realizing that half the books on your shelf feature a protagonist battling against—and ultimately overcoming—an evil empire of some kind). Tropes are a staple of genre fiction. And yet, writers still use them. It is impossible.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 24, 2024

As Dan Gerstein, CEO of Gotham Ghostwriters, the cosponsor of the event along with the American Society of Journalists and Analysts, quipped, it was the largest collection of writing talent in one room…since Thomas Jefferson dined alone. Ghostwriters are a proud but underappreciated group. But the world is shifting.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Note from Jane: Mirella’s original title for her piece was “I’d Rather Be Writing.” So it should come as no surprise that my entry into the field of writing might entail a similar kind of learning curve. I then diverted my attention to what other writing-related work I could do as I recovered from childbirth.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Sarah’s insightful and actionable advice led me to reflect on what sort of press kits I—and by extension the bloggers and journalists looking to write about authors and their books—see online: mostly downloadable PDFs with low quality images and limited content. Here’s how: 1. Should they screen capture, crop, and export?

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