Piecing Together Your Online Marketing Puzzle. Beginner's Guide to Preventing Blog Content Scraping in WordPress. Are you looking for a way to keep spammers and scammers from stealing your WordPress blog posts using content scrapers? It is very frustrating as a website owner to see that someone is stealing your content without permission, monetizing it, outranking you in Google, and stealing your audience. In this article, we’ll cover what blog content scraping is, how you can reduce and prevent content scraping, and even how to take advantage of content scrapers for your own benefit.
What Is Blog Content Scraping in WordPress? Blog content scraping is when content is taken from numerous sources and republished on another site. Usually, this is done automatically via your blog’s RSS feed. Unfortunately, it is very easy and very common to have your WordPress blog content stolen in this way. Sometimes your content will be simply copied and pasted directly to another website, including your formatting, images, videos, and more. Why Do Content Scrapers Steal Content? 1. 3. Disable WordPress REST API 4. 5. 6. 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? Mine is accessible literary fiction. The thing is. it's edited down to 135,000 words from approximately 150,000 words. I'm wondering if I've gotten it down to an acceptable size. My novel is a period piece, and it has required a good number of words to capture the characters as well as the place, period, and action.
Sorry, this is harder to hear than it is for me to say. I would say that the absolute upper limit of OK is 100,000 for a debut novel, but you'll find some people turned off to it if it's anything above 80,000. I'm not making these numbers up from my experience--I've read identical stats on a lot of agent blogs. There are practical reasons for this rule!
Furthermore, think of your audience--you're an unknown writer at the onset. This is really hard for you, the author, in terms of your story, but what I would do is try to whittle it down for your submission. 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. 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] The acceptable length of an academic dissertation varies greatly, dependent predominantly on the subject.
§See also[edit] §Bibliography[edit] §References[edit] §External links[edit] Word Count in Sci-Fi novels. 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. We all know what’s going to happen and it’s painful to watch. What surprises me is how little discussion there is about what happens to the authors in all of this. For sure, advances are going down. Way down. But that has been happening for a while. Publishers have no idea how drive online sales For years, as book sales moved increasingly online, the responsibility of the sale has increasingly moved to the author. Publishers have resorted to un-trackable promotion such as print ads, and television. I know this because my personal blog gets about a million views a month. This is really bad news for publishers, because I make almost as much in commission from Amazon when I sell a book I didn’t write as I would make on the sale of one of my own books after the publisher takes out their cut.
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. Hardly anything does one’s mental, spiritual, and creative health more good than resolving to read more and write better. Today’s reading list addresses these parallel aspirations. And since the number of books written about reading and writing likely far exceeds the reading capacity of a single human lifetime, this omnibus couldn’t be — shouldn’t be — an exhaustive list.
If anyone can make grammar fun, it’s Maira Kalman — The Elements of Style Illustrated marries Kalman’s signature whimsy with Strunk and White’s indispensable style guide to create an instant classic. The original Elements of Style was published in 1919 in-house at Cornell University for teaching use and reprinted in 1959 to become cultural canon, and Kalman’s inimitable version is one of our 10 favorite masterpieces of graphic nonfiction. On the itch of writing, Lamott banters: On why we read and write: 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. “I could crank out better crap than this!
How hard can it be?” The better question is: How easy? Hall, a creative-writing professor and crime novelist, teaches a course on “megabestsellers,” books that have sold in the “multiple millions” and that have gone on selling for decades after they were originally published. This is sorta true and sorta not, depending on what your needs are.
Is it any surprise that popular characters ranging from Scarlett O’Hara to Michael Corleone tend to show “a high level of emotional intensity that results in gutsy and surprising deeds”? Well, of course it does. That statement isn’t as inanely tautological as it may sound. 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. 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? I wondered, twenty minutes in. Not for the compelling narrative, for there is practically no story. Our Coco will have none of this. So Coco means to take all her chips off the marriage table. 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. 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. So most authors do this: 1) Search online for book reviews, indie book reviewers, self-published book reviews, how to get book reviews, etc. 2) Email or contact those reviewers asking them to take a look at their books and comment.
Here’s why that doesn’t work. Here’s a better way to get reviews – while avoiding “book review websites”. 1) Find bloggers (or websites, but blogs are easier) who are in some way related to your book, or who may like your book, or who have reviewed other books in a similar genre, with a Page Rank of three or more. Why PR3? 2) How to ask for the review: Tell them who you are, that you’re looking for creative ways to promote your book, and ask politely if they’d be interested in receiving a free copy.
Don’t make it too formal. 4 Simple Ways to Create a Well-Written Ebook. You’ve got a great idea. You’re going to write an ebook – perhaps your first! It’ll grow your business, bring in money, and help establish your expertise. And to keep yourself accountable, you tell all your readers to expect the ebook by the end of the month. Sure, that might mean a few caffeine-fuelled, late-night sessions … but your ebook will be done, dusted, and out the door. Heck, if you really knuckle down, perhaps you can knock out a short ebook in a single week. Maybe you can. But that doesn’t mean you should. Writing an Ebook isn’t a Race It’s easy to feel pressured to knock this out fast.
But writing your ebook isn’t a race. Yes, at some point, you need to ship it out. Your Ebook Should be Your Best Work Whether your ebook is a paid product or a freebie, it needs to show you at your best. If customers need to pay for it, they’ll expect an ebook that’s complete, carefully structured, and well-written. And if your ebook is a freebie, you still need to make it as good as you can. Search results. ITI's LiteraryMarketPlace.com ™ Copyright © 2014 Information Today, Inc.
All rights reserved. Literary Market Place™ and literarymarketplace.com™ are trademarks of Information Today, Inc. View Information Today, Inc.'s or LiteraryMarketPlace.com's terms of use. 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. 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.) So we decided to collect them and add tips from a few other veterans -- namely, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and Neil Gaiman.
Here we go: Henry Miller (from Henry Miller on Writing) 1. George Orwell (From Why I Write) 1. Margaret Atwood (originally appeared in The Guardian) 1. Neil Gaiman (read his free short stories here) 1. William Safire (the author of the New York Times Magazine column "On Language") 1. Related Content: Ray Bradbury Gives 12 Pieces of Writing Advice to Young Authors (2001) John Steinbeck’s Six Tips for the Aspiring Writer and His Nobel Prize Speech Elmore Leonard’s Ultimate Guide for Would-Be Writers. Amazon aren't destroying publishing, they're reshaping it. The debate about Amazon v the publishing industry is getting so heated and so polarised that quite soon it's going to need its own version of Godwin's law.
The passion is almost religious. On the one hand, you have those who say Amazon is a kind of new publishing messiah, casting out the old gatekeepers and ushering in a democratised, consumer-centric book trade. On the other, you have those who see the company as a digital devil destroying all it touches. It's neither. It's just big, strong, and ornery.
Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It's perfectly true that Amazon's approach is, for the moment, mostly cheaper for the consumer than the now-endangered agency model favoured by publishers. Before agency was introduced, Amazon boasted of controlling 90% of the ebook market. And why is competition important? Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work. So Amazon, Google and Apple are gatekeepers. Create A Plot Outline In 8 Easy Steps. By Glen C. Strathy How would you like to create a plot outline for your novel in less than an hour that is emotionally compelling and dramatically sound? It's easier than you think. The secret is to incorporate the 8 Basic Plot Elements.
Sound intriguing? I'll describe each of the eight elements in turn. On the other hand, if you already have a draft for a novel, that you're looking to revise, then ask yourself, as we go through these elements, whether you have included them in your story. 1. 15K+Save The first element to include in your plot outline is the Story Goal, which we covered in detail in the previous article, The Key to a Solid Plot: Choosing a Story Goal.
For instance, let's say we want to write a story about a 38-year-old female executive who has always put off having a family for the sake of her career and now finds herself lonely and regretting her choices. There are many ways we could involve other characters in this goal. ... a mother who wants her to be happier. 2. 3. 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) COMMANDMENTSWork on one thing at a time until finished.Start no more new books, add no more new material to ‘Black Spring.’Don’t be nervous.
Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time! When you can’t create you can work.Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Under a part titled Daily Program, his routine also featured the following wonderful blueprint for productivity, inspiration, and mental health: HT Lists of Note. 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.
But in a lot of cases you don’t have to “reinvent the wheel”; there are some awesome inspirational manifestos that have already put out there for you to look at and use as a means to set you back on course. Some come in the form of an image, some as a video, and some as nothing more than a blog post. One of those styles of presentation may resonate with you more than others, and yet you may want to have a selection to look at for the times where you need more than just a quick jolt of inspiration. 1. This is one of the best known ones on the web. 2. 3. the lululemon manifesto 4. 5. 6. Straight from the manifesto’s creator, Bruce Mau: 8. 10. 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.
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