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Who Is Building Your Author Platform?
This post shares some unconventional advice I got from an unexpected place on building your author platform. “Success is one thing. Impact is another. I live to impact people.” – Ray Lewis, Baltimore...
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Three Habits That Will Develop Your Writing Skills
Learn about three habits that will develop your writing skills: write everyday, share your work with others, and read good writing. Like the famous three rivers of Pittsburgh, these habits will come...
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Why Do You Still Blog?
Why do we blog? Why after months, or years do we still blog? For the writer, blogging is little bit like going to the gym. Friend of the blog Patrick Phillips recently posted Seven Reasons he keeps...
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The English Language Does Love Wrong
English is such a limited language sometimes, and that’s never more clear than when we talk about love. I love my wife. I love my kids. I love my dad, my mom and my sister. I love the Panthers. I loved...
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No Is a Perfectly Acceptable Answer
Life has a way of presenting you moments that encourage you to seek out the assistance of other people. In the writer’s life, it might be asking for a critique, or a blurb on an upcoming book you are...
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Why Can’t I Just Be a Prodigy?
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. – Kevin Durant Our kids have a way of being much more honest than adults, and by their honesty, sometimes they can show us our true feelings. My...
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Announcing: The Adventure of Creation Anthology
Today is going to be a little bit of promotion. I stand to benefit, but there are 34 other outstanding writers who have joined in this collection. This promotion is as much for them as it is for me. In...
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FREE Writing Feedback During the WHW Amazing Race!
Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi at Writers Helping Writers (formerly The Bookshelf Muse) have added two more books to their Descriptive Thesaurus Collection: The Positive Trait Thesaurus: A...
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Organize Your Life into Four Spaces
Today, I’d like to relate something that my friend Paul Rienzo (@PaulRienzo) taught me. It has been a great metaphor for understanding my world and the relationships I have with the people around me....
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Sci-Fi Book Giveaway
Back when I was a kid I collected baseball cards. The most valuable cards were always a player’s rookie card. For writers, our ‘rookie card’ is our debut novel. You have a chance to win the ‘rookie...
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Why I’m Not Making New Year’s Resolutions This Year
This is the time of year when people start thinking about and making New Year’s Resolutions. Three months later, most of them are broken, and the hope and excitement of New Year’s is traded in for...
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Three Habits That Will Develop Your Writing Skills
Learn about three habits that will develop your writing skills: write everyday, share your work with others, and read good writing. Like the famous three rivers of Pittsburgh, these habits will come...
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Why Do You Still Blog?
Why do we blog? Why after months, or years do we still blog? For the writer, blogging is little bit like going to the gym. Friend of the blog Patrick Phillips recently posted Seven Reasons he keeps...
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The Kindle Fire: A Year Later & What I’d Do Differently
Last year about this time I was struggling with what tablet/ereader device to buy. I eventually settled on a Kindle Fire. The core question came down to spending the money on a device that would only...
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Why Do You Still Blog?
Why do we blog? Why after months, or years do we still blog? For the writer, blogging is little bit like going to the gym. Friend of the blog Patrick Phillips recently posted Seven Reasons he keeps...
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The English Language Does Love Wrong
English is such a limited language sometimes, and that’s never more clear than when we talk about love. I love my wife. I love my kids. I love my dad, my mom and my sister. I love the Panthers. I loved...
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How Big of a Platform Does an Author Need?
Agent Chip MacGregor has been doing a question and answer session on his blog. I really appreciate him doing this and I’m learning from each segment he does. Recently he got this question: How big of a...
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The Long Road
Dealing with discouragement when there’s still a long road between you and your dream Agent Chip MacGregor has been answering questions on his blog. Recently, he fielded this one: Q: At what point — if...
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