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Piecing Together Your Online Marketing Puzzle. Beginner's Guide to Preventing Blog Content Scraping in WordPress. If you write original content day in and day out, you already are aware of the fact that your posts will end up on bunch of SPAM sites within a few days sometimes even few minutes.

Beginner's Guide to Preventing Blog Content Scraping in WordPress

5 Cheap (or Free) eBooks Every Writer Should Read. Www.zebraeditor.com/reports/109_-_Write_Tight_and_You_Write_In_Style.pdf. Is there a word count cap for a debut novel? I got this note the other day: Hi Moonie,Could you tell me - are there big word count issues for a first novel?

is there a word count cap for a debut novel?

Mine is accessible literary fiction. The thing is. it's edited down to 135,000 words from approximately 150,000 words. Word count. §Details and variations in how the count is defined[edit] §Software[edit] As explained earlier, different word counting programs may give varying results, depending on the text segmentation rule details.

Word count

The exact number of words often is not a strict requirement, thus the variation is acceptable. §In fiction[edit] Novelist Jane Smiley suggests that length is an important quality of the novel.[5] However, novels can vary tremendously in length; Smiley lists novels as typically being between 100,000 and 175,000 words,[6] while National Novel Writing Month requires its novels to be at least 50,000 words. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America specifies word lengths for each category of its Nebula award categories:[11] §In non-fiction[edit] Why smart authors are cutting Amazon out. The recent anti-trust suit against the big five book publishers reminds me of the scene in the movie Titanic where the lifeboats are pulling away from the gasping survivors in the water.

Why smart authors are cutting Amazon out

New Year's Resolution Reading List: 9 Essential Books on Reading and Writing. By Maria Popova Dancing with the absurdity of life, or what symbolism has to do with the osmosis of trash and treasure.

New Year's Resolution Reading List: 9 Essential Books on Reading and Writing

Hardly anything does one’s mental, spiritual, and creative health more good than resolving to read more and write better. Recipe for a bestselling book. Remember the time you picked up a copy of that big bestseller and tore through the book in a couple of days, marveling at the bad writing, ridiculous plot twists and paper-thin characters? “Is drivel all it takes to sell a gazillion copies and retire to a sleekly spacious modern house in the woods?” You probably asked yourself. Coco Chanel, Jane Austen and Anita Brookner: On Flying Solo And Free - The Huffington Post. I saw "Coco Avant Chanel" in Paris last spring, because I wanted to see a French film and "Coco" (somewhat to my dismay) was the only French movie playing in the two multi-screen cinemas around the Carrefour de l'Odéon, the rest of them being American horror shows with subtitles, or otherwise from elsewhere.

Coco Chanel, Jane Austen and Anita Brookner: On Flying Solo And Free - The Huffington Post

Normally I have next to no interest in either Chanel herself or in the more recondite subtleties of women's couture -- no! What I mean to say is that I am happy to observe women looking beautiful in their clothes but I don't really want to know how they do that. Still, advance publicity, where Audrey Tatou exuded a darkly smoldering something or other, had caught my eye; moreover it was raining outdoors.... Then, last week, I saw the movie again in the States -- why? People.sunyit.edu/~russ/Com310/ProofreadSymbols.pdf. How to get your book reviewed – by avoiding book reviewers. To have a chance at selling your book on amazon or online, you need reviews.

How to get your book reviewed – by avoiding book reviewers.

Lots of them. And if you’re like me, you hate pushing all your friends and family to review your work (is it really fair to ask them?) And leave comments. 4 Simple Ways to Create a Well-Written Ebook. You’ve got a great idea.

4 Simple Ways to Create a Well-Written Ebook

You’re going to write an ebook – perhaps your first! It’ll grow your business, bring in money, and help establish your expertise. Search results. ITI's LiteraryMarketPlace.com ™ Copyright © 2014 Information Today, Inc.

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All rights reserved. Literary Market Place™ and literarymarketplace.com™ are trademarks of Information Today, Inc. View Information Today, Inc.' Online Writing Resource for Writers to Sell Their Work – WritersMarket.com. Writing Tips by Henry Miller, Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman & George Orwell. Image by Austin Kleon Here's one way to become a better writer.

Writing Tips by Henry Miller, Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman & George Orwell

Listen to the advice of writers who earn their daily bread with their pens. During the past week, lists of writing commandments by Henry Miller, Elmore Leonard (above) and William Safire have buzzed around Twitter. (Find our Twitter stream here.) Amazon aren't destroying publishing, they're reshaping it. Create A Plot Outline In 8 Easy Steps. Bev's Learning & Instructional Design BaseCamp. Henry Miller's 11 Commandments of Writing & Daily Creative Routine. After David Ogilvy’s wildly popular 10 tips on writing and a selection of advice from modernity’s greatest writers, here comes some from the prolific writer and painter Henry Miller (December 26, 1891–June 7, 1980) 10 Tips on Writing from David Ogilvy. 10 Insanely Awesome Inspirational Manifestos.

There are certain messages that serve to get you “back to one” when you find you’re going off course. Whether you use tools such as a manifesto, a personal mission statement, a vision board or a list similar to Benjamin Franklin’s “13 Virtues”, taking the time to identify with one and then keeping it handy is worthwhile – and perhaps even imperative. The man who invented the Hollywood schlock machine. Commit Keeps You Committed To Daily Tasks. Engaging Learners through Digital Storytelling: 40+ Resources & Tips. Six Tips on Writing from John Steinbeck. The Ultimate Guide to Publishing Your eBook on Amazon’s Kindle Platform. Reframer - Quickly quantify your qualitative data. iA Writer. My Writing Spot for iPad. How to Boost Your Reading Comprehension by Reading Smarter and More Conscientiously.