Contently

APRIL 13, 2023

Do you want conversational prose, technical writing, or sector-specific terminology? Note that my prompts read like I’m having a conversation with another writer. Just as I would with another writer, I can give a suggestion and then ask questions. For example, ads promoting an eBook or landing page copy for a webinar.

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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.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

You’ve always dreamed of becoming an aspiring writer, haven’t you? And for those moments when you’re uncertain about your prose, grammar and style checkers, such as Grammarly and Hemingway Editor , stand ready to polish your words, ensuring your initial drafts mirror your vision closely. Finished a chapter?

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Freelance Writing Jobs

JULY 7, 2023

Shooter Flash offers an opportunity to writers who work on a smaller canvas. JANUARY Danuta Gleed Literary Award The Danuta Gleed Literary Award was created as a celebration of the life of Danuta Gleed, a writer whose short fiction won several awards before her death in December 1996. Two finalists are also awarded $1,000 each.

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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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Smart Blogger

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Whether you’re crafting a novel, diving into academic writing, or creating blog content, specific techniques can break the wall of writer’s block. Handle Writer’s Block Before It Handles You If you want to write but can’t, you might have writer’s block. Learn how to become a kick-ass writer.

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Smart Blogger

APRIL 13, 2023

Medieval Allegory Medieval allegory promoted Christianity through poems and art in the Middle Ages. 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. Take The Divine Comedy.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Even a simple use of alliteration like “great gifts for writers” or “words that pack a punch” can add heft to your writing. But did you know many famous writers throughout the ages have used alliteration in their titles? Point of View Point of view is the perspective a writer chooses when writing.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 12, 2023

So most people listening are authors and writers, but they're not very technical. ChatGPT is good at creating functional prose, but for real beauty, which you want in a novel, I felt I needed other techniques and Cohere was really that. There's no writer alive who can get as precise as it can in its imitation of modes of speech.

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Article Writing

OCTOBER 23, 2022

That’s what every unique article writer knows. This might be a hard one for some unique article writers – just think about the number of times you say “like” when talking. Then there are those pesky words such as “just” or “that”, which may seem useful at first but can slow your prose considerably when they appear everywhere.

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BKA Content

APRIL 16, 2023

With good web content writing and good web content writers, you can build the trustworthy aura and valuable expertise that will keep your readers longer and encourage them to return more often. Two solutions: Hire a content writer or write better content. In that case, do you need a web content writer? Want to do it yourself?

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The Creative Penn

JULY 31, 2023

Show Notes Tips for being a prolific writer Reasons why authors write darker books Scheduling separate times for writing different genres Creating a successful co-writing relationship What is a series of standalone? Writing was never something that I kind of foresaw as a career because I never thought it was achievable to become a writer.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 17, 2023

And they do so using simple, easy-to-read prose. How about a local REALTOR® who promotes her business online and helps motivate other agents. They may be brand new to a field or want to upgrade their skills, like a writer wanting to find more freelance writing jobs. If so, a “Fluff-Free” Guide may be for you.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

AUGUST 9, 2021

It’s different from emerging to resent the copyeditor; appreciating the prose is part of reading for pleasure.   Whole books  have been written as a single sentence, for crying out loud, although I’m not promoting that idea. A writer who deploys a long sentence had better know what they’re doing and why.

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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? Part of the reason we are writers is because it's the way we figure out things in our lives and on the page and try and communicate them to other people. I didn't have a real plan that I am going to go become a writer.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Do you think you're much more of a visual person than a lot of the text-based writers? Listening to the other side of it, where the prose people are so retailer-focused, is wild to me. I think the change is—and I've been talking about direct sales in the prose side since 2016, at least, when I ran my first three prose campaigns.

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Words Matter by Wix

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

While the concept doesn't completely bypass skepticism from the masses, it does provide a solution for many people who don’t have the ability to prose on their own. In essence, a ghostwriter is a professional writer who gets paid for their work, but gives full credit to someone else. What is a ghostwriter? Types of ghostwriting.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 9, 2023

And I think as I've grown up and become a writer, it's just the adult version of talking to yourself in lots of ways. But she wasn't very good at marketing and promotion , and by the time she died four years later, there were hundreds of copies still sitting in boxes. That was a stressful process for all of the writers involved.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 11, 2014

If you have never written a press release, consider using a professional content writer or service. That’s not to say that any good writer isn’t capable of doing it; it’s just that you want to be as knowledgeable as a professional or hire one. 7: Cross-Promote to Gain Credibility. 1: Know How to Write a Press Release.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Financial factors that influence the decision to become a full-time writer Revitalizing a series with Facebook ads The importance of a positive mindset and how to stay motivated for the long term. And I think I became a writer because I love reading. But if you're a writer, that should be pretty easy to switch to.

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Men With Pens

MAY 5, 2011

Get another writer to look over your plan. You’ll also need to market and promote. This is a rather obvious step, but it trips up a lot of writers. You probably know writers who produce breathtaking prose – but who never complete anything. Another writer who’s also working on a long project.

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Susan Greene

DECEMBER 30, 2020

When did you first know you wanted to become a writer? I knew I wanted to be a writer from a young age. I was thrilled, but that wasn’t what made me decide to become a writer. I’d like to think that I’m an expert, but in truth I’m often humbled by other writers’ work. I was an avid reader as a kid.

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ProBlogger

JULY 18, 2012

So stop thinking like a writer, and start thinking like a marketer. For the purposes of this exercise, I’m going to look at the guest post I wrote for Goinswriter to promote Blog Wise , and show you how that developed. With Blog Wise , we wanted our guest posts to: promote the ebook. Creating your outline. content format.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Georgina: Like a lot of authors that you've interviewed, I always wanted to be a writer as a child, and I was that kid with the desk in her bedroom, who would sit there and write books, even if it was just on notebook paper. We're all very much promoted the same way. Joanna: It's going to be interesting to talk to you today.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

If you’re a good writer, you might be able to pump out a well-written, articulate piece of prose in about an hour or so. If you’re an average writer, it’s going to take longer. And that’s before you even start promoting your posts.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Snag B: If I don’t write about this topic I’m gonna bust wide open, but it’s not appropriate for my audience’s needs, my friend won’t be able to post it till it’s no longer relevant, and I don’t think enough people will see it over a the writer’s group. Whose blog first?

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 24, 2012

This guest post is by Harry Bingham of Writers’ Workshop. A recent guest-blogger on our own writing-related website made a big splash with an argument that alcohol could be used to promote creativity. He also runs the Writers’ Workshop which offers help with all aspects of writing a book. Most blog posts are dull.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2011

Not so much functionally—there are people who can help you write cleaner prose. Once my new teacher noticed that I couldn’t take verbal instruction, spell, or abstractly conjugate, I was sent back down to the special education class, so I could graduate again, be promoted again, and be rejected, again. So here’s my response.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 3, 2014

With a long-held dream of writing, Katie believed she could seamlessly marry her newfound nutrition knowledge with her love of prose. I attended writing and blogging courses held at the Australian Writers’ Centre. Well, let’s find out. The Beginning. To blog regularly – keep in their faces, keep relevant, be out there!”.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

It’s prose that makes you go, ‘Huh?’ The Workplace Writer’s Process: A Guide to Getting the Job Done. As a follow-up to last year’s The Writer’s Process: How to Get Your Mind in Gear, Anne Janzer has turned her laser focus to completing your writing work. by Anne Janzer. There’s also a bonus.

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