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, below follow 4 ways to use surprise in your writing and keep your readers captivated … 1. They’re lulled to sleep. So, how can you keep your readers engaged?

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Nick Ursborne

MARCH 12, 2024

They’ve read books, movie scripts and poems that describe emotions. This is why you need to take AI-generated content as your starting point, not the end point. Then write a final draft, infused with the complexity of deeply felt human emotions. appeared first on Writing for the web - online copywriting and content writing.

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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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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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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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Enchanting Marketing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the world of online writing, we often talk about followers, audiences, and email lists. Leave a piece of yourself in your writing When I think of the best hotel check-in experiences, they were all personal, and they were all a little different. How can you be personal without oversharing? Check-in from 2 PM. This is different.

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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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Elna Cain

DECEMBER 3, 2022

I know I got into freelance writing because I absolutely love it. But part of being a successful freelance writer is not how well we write or how many clients we have – we also have to understand the money aspect of our business. I’ll be honest, when I started as a freelance writer , I was stressed out about money.

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Enchanting Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We devour the books by Hemingway and Chandler. We try to figure out why their writing is so powerful, and then apply the same techniques to our own writing. But good writing is not just about emulation and intuition. Science backs up a lot of writing advice. To write simply, keep revising. Shall I show you?

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Melanie Saxton

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Writing a legacy book means capturing your adventures for posterity! Writing a legacy book can be a meaningful and fulfilling project. And if writing is not your strong suit, I’m here to help. Define your Purpose Together, we can clarify why you want to write a legacy book.

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Melanie Saxton

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re writing a technical manual, an autobiography, a novel, or a self-help book, how expertly you convey your message matters. Available on Amazon I’ve always loved storytelling, from the time I repeated fairy tales to my siblings to the time I began writing magazine editorials and editing books.

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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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Jane Friedman

MARCH 4, 2024

It turns out that an active buy link in a newsletter targeted at people who really want to get it is the most effective means of selling your book.” Substack launched in 2017 and in its early days, I saw it as a fantastic, easy-to-use platform for starting a paid newsletter. I know because I started mine ( The Hot Sheet ) in 2015.

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 14, 2023

This month’s Ask the Editor is sponsored by The Writing Consultancy. Get started here >> Submit your manuscript to schedule your free 20-minute call with award-winning author and editor, Britta Jensen. Dear Dejected, There are three reasons your book is getting rejected: The query isn’t selling the book or your professionalism.

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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? Why do authors write epistolary novels?

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 21, 2024

How can you design a business that works for you and your books over the long term? ” Stephen King ; Today's show is sponsored by ProWritingAid, writing and editing software that goes way beyond just grammar and typo checking. Their latest book is The Midlist Indie Author Mindse t. So welcome back to the show, Thorn.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 31, 2023

Photo by karina zhukovskaya Note from Jane: In the earliest days of my career, I served as managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine, and one of the nicest parts of my job was calling up winners of our writing contests, including the National Self-Published Book Awards. Checks started showing up in my mailbox.

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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? Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2024

Today’s post is excerpted from The Nonfiction Book Marketing and Launch Plan by Stephanie Chandler, founder and CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association. The goal is to build a relationship that not only leads to book sales but creates fans that stay with you for the long-term. Joe is passionate about his topic.

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The Write Life

MARCH 20, 2023

Since more people than ever before are interested in true crime stories, you might have wondered how to write true crime and what it takes to be successful. Out of all the book genres in the world, true crime requires a lot of research and a committed writer who is ready to tell the story behind a gruesome or other type of crime.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 10, 2023

Think it’s impossible to find profitable freelance writing niches in 2023? That’s a way to procrastinate and never get started. We’ll begin with a few fundamental questions… What Exactly is a Freelance Writing Niche? A freelance writing niche is a specialization in either a topic or a content type.

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Make a Living Writing

JANUARY 7, 2024

Have you ever wished there was a Ghostwriting 101 course where you could learn what ghost writing articles is all about and learn how to be a successful ghostwriter? Ghostwriting is when you’re writing as someone else. You write the words and someone else gets the author credit.

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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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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Or get paid to write from time to time? In this post, you’ll learn exactly how to make money writing – different strategies, how to do it – basically, everything you need to know to succeed. But first, let’s start by discussing what’s possible (and what’s not). Everybody knows that. Absolutely.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 31, 2023

Join us on April 5 for the online class Write Better With Social Media. Social media doesn’t sell books in any provable way. No one strolls into their local independent bookstore to ask for “This book I saw in a tweet!” You should still be writing on social media. I’m a nonfiction writer focusing on writing craft.

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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. The hired scribe’s job is to tell both.

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Make a Living Writing

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

If you want to get paid to read books, the good news is, you have many options to do so. Whether you want to start smaller by writing short reviews, wade into deeper waters with blog-length reviews, or choose to make a living proofreading or acquiring books, we’ve got you covered. Let’s dive in! #1

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

on Unsplash Today’s post is by author Joel Pitney, founder of Launch My Book. “It I have no idea where my book is published.” So if you’re an author starting out on your publishing journey, it’s important to know what to look out for. Book publishing is confusing, especially if you have little to no experience with it.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 1, 2024

There are many options for book marketing, so how do you choose the right ones for you? I give my thoughts on the different polarities on the marketing scale to help you figure out what might work for your book, your stage on the author journey, and your lifestyle. Today's show is sponsored by my patrons!

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Jane Friedman

MAY 30, 2023

In spring 2017, after learning that an aspiring nonfiction author would need a book proposal to find a publisher, I enrolled in a two-Saturday proposal writing class at UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. So I started a scrapbook about her, the first American I’d ever seen. she told me.

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Smart Blogger

JANUARY 5, 2024

You know you should be writing, but… You can’t do this anymore. And you try to write, but you feel like everything you do manage to jot down is… well… terrible. He (or she) loves everything you write. Instead of writing a blog post , start a conversation with your friend. Or write him a letter. Be emotional.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 26, 2023

One question I was asked a few times around my book launch was, “How is it to promote a book about introversion when you are an introvert?” When I wrote my humorous advice book for introverted parents Babies Don’t Make Small Talk (So Why Should I?), What I’ve learned: there are a lot of different ways to promote a book.

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Photo by Pixabay Today’s post is excerpted from How to Enjoy Being Edited: A Practical Guide for Nonfiction Authors by nonfiction writing coach and editor Hannah de Keijzer. But in the middle of writing her first book she asked me an important, not-so-sparkly question: “Do you ever find yourself judging clients juuuust a teensy bit?”

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

Ever scoured the vast internet for the best writing resources, only to end up lost in a sea of options? You’re searching for quality online resources and writing tools that actually work, right? Got a Book Idea? Well, good news! Eager to level up your game? Let’s dive right in. people are searching for it on Amazon).

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A few weeks ago my new book came out, a collection of literary humor essays. You would think given this is my seventh book (from six different publishers), I would be well prepared for this momentous occasion. In the month or two before my book’s release I bought new eyeglasses that make me look more writerly.

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