Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Photo by Franco Antonio Giovanella on Unsplash Today’s post is by author Joni B. But am I a humor writer? I never thought of myself that way, at least not until after reading the reviews of my first essay collection published over a decade ago. As a writer, however, I rarely paid attention to this reality.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 19, 2023

Author Elisa Lorello’s exploratory dive into ChatGPT led her to discover its usefulness to fiction and nonfiction writers, and she shares them all in her new book The AI Author Assistant: How to Use Chat GPT to Optimize Your Writing Progress and Income While Retaining Your Human Touch. Let’s just say I took one for the team.)

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 20, 2023

Photo by Akhilesh Sharma on Unsplash Today’s post is excerpted and adapted from the recently published Build a Better Business Book: How to Plan, Write, and Promote a Book That Matters by Josh Bernoff ( @jbernoff ). She sounds like a lot of the writers I work with. All you need is a fat outline.

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Smart Blogger

MAY 11, 2023

Ever wondered how great writers consistently produce engaging content? The term “content writing” covers everything that goes into planning, writing, editing, and publishing written digital marketing content. A freelance content writer creates web content that educates the reader and helps them fall in love with your company or brand.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 12, 2023

How authors might approach co-creating with AI if they want to work with traditional publishers What remains the same despite advances in technology: “Creative AI is going to change everything. Then I would each generate one sentence of a love story, and I published that in Lit Hub a couple of years ago now.

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 5, 2023

So, what’s a writer to do? Major Functions of Quillbot Quillbot is loaded with unique functions for writers… ParaPhrase Tool Quillbot’s paraphrasing tool allows you to up-level your writing skills. The built-in thesaurus is a boon to academic paper writers and office workers. And not break the bank). Okay, ready?

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Smart Blogger

APRIL 13, 2023

In today’s post, we’ll dive into famous allegory examples from literature, movies, and music. Hidden meaning : Director and co-writer Alfonso Cuarón, infused this sci-fi flick with so much symbolism that it travels far beyond his original idea of a film on adversity. Make your voice heard and get your words published.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Today’s post is excerpted from the book The Linchpin Writer: Crafting Your Novel’s Key Moments by John Matthew Fox ( @bookfox ). I don’t like studying first sentences of books—a sentence really doesn’t give the reader enough information or the writer enough room. Now, many writers start their books with a mystery.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 9, 2023

If you want to be a freelance writer , you’ll have to demonstrate you understand content writing and create sample articles. Many writers, in the rush to end their job search, overlook some of these details. If an official style guide isn’t available, check out the written content they’ve already published.

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BKA Content

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Blogs published in your name should reflect your personality and overall company philosophy and mission. A well-written company blog post helps you establish an individual online personality that people will come to know through regularly published posts. Hiring blog writing services is a big decision.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

By using sensory words to evoke the sense of sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell; smart and attractive writers just like you are able to make their words burst to life in their reader’s mind. In this post, you’ll learn: The science behind sensory details (e.g. It’s almost too easy. sensory) words faster than other words.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 20, 2021

Jack Hart  has spent five decades helping writers succeed, working shoulder-to-shoulder with journalists in newsrooms both big and small and with students at five universities. Writers who’ve worked with him have written national best sellers and won prizes that include five Pulitzers and a slew of other national awards.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 6, 2011

I mean, he’s got a goofy looking avatar, he’s shorn closer than a sheep and he sends me good posts. The last time Men with Pens saw me, I had just written a guest post for them entitled Get a Rush from Your Writing. So for my next great endeavor, I’d like to discuss how a writer evolves. What more can I say?

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Of course, the Hemingways, O’Connors, and so many others have more than demonstrated the power of a more spare approach to prose (not that they haven’t produced their share of elegant, lyrical, and yes, longer passages too). The best writers find the best words, and the best words adhere no preordained styles or rules. And so it goes.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the intro, Amazon changes ebook return policy [ Society of Authors ]; Spotify introduces audiobooks [ Spotify ; FindawayVoices ; Publishing Perspectives ]; Neal Stephenson on The Sword Guy podcast. I use Publisher Rocket for researching book titles, categories, and keywords — for new books and for updating my backlist. Show Notes.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Traditional publishing is not a monolithic thing. There are different kinds of publishers, and authors want different things out of a publishing deal and relationship. Georgina Cross talks about her experience with two different traditional publishers and the pros and cons of each. Welcome to the show, Georgina.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Today’s post is by author and editor Michael Mohr. Here’s a controversial opinion: Writers are born, not made. If you’re a natural-born writer, then you’ll write your ass off either way. To be clear: Sometimes it takes “real” writers years, even decades, to succeed. Not everyone, ergo, is a writer. I mean A LOT.

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The Write Life

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Since it can be hard for a writer to know where to find them, we did the legwork for you. We found 40 reputable, well-reviewed, free writing contests for poets, fiction writers, essayists and more. And if you’re still hungry for more opportunities, we also have posts on writers grants and writing fellowships.).

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ProBlogger

MARCH 29, 2015

You love prose, you love language, you love how a perfectly-constructed sentence can say so much more than just letters put in order. If you’re unlike me, however, you love to use lots of words, and write mountains of prose. Does that mean you can’t write long-form posts because they bore readers? Still unconvinced?

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

When Ali Hale sends me a post, I know it’s going to be good. “Nothing can be made to be of interest to the reader that was not first of vital concern to the writer.&# – John Gardner, The Art of Fiction. They shook your emotions because the writer cared. This isn’t news to you: sometimes life sucks. .

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Step up your writing game and meet fellow writers with The Deep Dive Workshop, a 10-week series from the podcast hosts of The S**t No One Tells You About Writing. Each week you’ll hear from expert writers and editors, followed by workshops led by Bianca, Carly or CeCe. I’m a beginning writer. Work from the foundation up.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 3, 2014

Two short months after she first pressed “publish”, Eden Riley , one of Australia’s best bloggers, pointed her out in the crowd of a Digital Parents conference. “ So how did someone who had only a handful of posts to her name get the attention of the Aussie big guns – something we all would have loved in our early days? The Beginning.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 31, 2023

In the intro, Draft2Digital acquires SelfPubBookCovers ; Different types of creative energy [ Self Publishing Advice ]; Twitter becomes X [ The Verge ]; TikTok text posts [ The Verge ]; What AI can help you do in 30 mins [ Ethan Mollick ]; Discovery Writing with ChatGPT by J. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

You’ve always dreamed of becoming an aspiring writer, haven’t you? Every published author starts with that burning query. Writing Space Every published author knows the undeniable magic of a personalized writing space. Maintain a Writer’s Tenacity We’ve all struggled with writer’s block.

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Or how Carolyn Keene keeps producing Nancy Drew mysteries ninety years after the first one was published? That person had some help from another writer, a ghostwriter. . The works created by ghostwriters can be any type of published writing, including the following: journalism. literary prose. blog posts.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 23, 2024

Photo by ConvertKit on Unsplash Today’s post is by writer and book coach Amy Goldmacher. I did have a long list of things I wanted to accomplish: revise an old project and start a new one; write a newsletter/blog post, draft two essays, work on marketing, and so on. Ah, a writing retreat. Doesn’t the idea sound amazing?

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 7, 2010

This guest post is by Sarah Von from Yes and Yes. If you’ve just started a blog you are, no doubt, using your best Google-fu to hunt down every last post giving advice to novice bloggers. We can’t all be Pulitzer-worthy prose writers. And if your posting is going to be spotty for a while, tell us.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Photo by Steve Johnson Today’s post is by writer, podcaster and editor Wayne Jones. One of the characters in the great short novel Lord Nelson Tavern (1974) by Canadian writer Ray Smith dismisses Jane Austen because all she wrote about were “the absurd concerns of silly small-town girls in England around 1800.”

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 30, 2023

Photo by cottonbro studio Today’s post is by book coach Robin Henry. Writers are frequently advised to read more to improve their writing. You’ll find books on this topic, such as Francine Prose’s Reading Like a Writer and How to Read Like a Writer by Erin Pushman, but they tend to take a generalist approach.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2011

This guest post is by Leigh Stevens of whereapy. I was inspired to write this post after reading a piece by the Blog Tyrant a few weeks ago. It’s a good post. Not so much functionally—there are people who can help you write cleaner prose. Strive for publishing only one or two good posts a week. And blonde.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. I had a bunch of publishing contracts, and they all went very badly. I don't know if I can release this book any better than these publishers, but I know for sure I can release them just as bad. So welcome to the show, Russell. Russell: Sure.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

How can we embrace the positive side of being jealous of the success of other writers? It's interesting because sometimes I feel like that play and that joy are lost in the discussions around publishing and the business of books, and this show is as guilty as any around that. Joanna: So we're going to get straight into the book.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 29, 2023

What functionality does Sudowrite have that will be useful to different types of writers? You can try Sudowrite through my affiliate link: www.TheCreativePenn.com/sudowrite Amit Gupta is a science fiction writer, entrepreneur, and founder of Sudowrite, an AI-powered creative writing tool. Amit Gupta gives his tips in this interview.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 28, 2011

Whenever you publish a blog post, you want to send it to your list. Whenever you publish content, you can copy and paste the article from your WordPress dashboard and blast it away. Make sure your feed URL shows the full content version of your posts. The default prose says “Heading 1 Heading 2″ etc.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

With the pandemic appearing in the rear-view mirror for most of us, we’re greeted with more options to attend retreats that appeal to any writer. This post will surely meet you with a writer’s retreat that works for your budget, even if you’re stuck at home. Are you staying at home and looking for a retreat?

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 7, 2023

Or maybe writer’s block? It doesn’t matter if you’re halfway through writing a book, sweating over social media posts, or journaling about your own life, all writers get stuck for creative ideas sometimes. This isn’t about producing ready-to-publish work for your latest freelance writing job. Boy, are you stuck!

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 24, 2023

It gained popularity in the mid-17th century when writers discovered just how impactful this rhetorical device is. We can learn a lot from writers like John Milton. It’s full of literary terms that’ll show you how to be a more persuasive and interesting writer. Successful artists and writers have been doing this for ages.

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