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Penflip - collaborative writing and version control 5 Ways to Freshen Up Your Social Profiles When was the last time you updated your social media profiles? Are they starting to feel drab or dated? Your social profiles may be in dire need of a refresh! And are you sharing the types of updates tailored to the latest platform designs and suited for today’s social media marketing? With recent changes to major platforms, you may be missing out on using some of the cool new options. To freshen up your social media profiles and take advantage of the latest updates, implement any of the following five ideas. #1: Optimize Your Google+ Profile for the Platform’s New Design Google+ social profiles were recently redesigned. The new Google+ design features 1, 2 or 3 columns of content, depending on the device being used. Here are a few tweaks you can make to spice up your new Google+ profile. Add a new high-resolution cover image. Add larger media to the items you post. Here’s an example from HubSpot: This image demonstrates what a full-width card looks like in the new Google+. Your Turn
textivate 25 Killer Combos for Google's Site: Operator There’s an app for everything – the problem is that we’re so busy chasing the newest shiny toy that we rarely stop to learn to use simple tools well. As a technical SEO, one of the tools I seem to never stop finding new uses for is the site: operator. I recently devoted a few slides to it in my BlueGlassX presentation, but I realized that those 5 minutes were just a tiny slice of all of the uses I’ve found over the years. People often complain that site:, by itself, is inaccurate (I’ll talk about that more at the end of the post), but the magic is in the combination of site: with other query operators. 1. site:example.com Ok, this one’s not really a combination, but let’s start with the basics. Each combo in this post will have a clickable example (see below). You’ll end up with two bits of information: (1) the actual list of pages in the index, and (2) the count of those pages (circled in purple below): 2. site:example.com/folder 3. site:sub.example.com 4. site:example.com inurl:www 21.
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25 Things You Should Know About Character Previous iterations of the “25 Things” series: 25 Things Every Writer Should Know 25 Things You Should Know About Storytelling And now… Here you’ll find the many things I believe — at this moment! — about characters: 1. Without character, you have nothing. 2. A great character can be the line between narrative life and story death. 3. Don’t believe that all those other aspects are separate from the character. 4. The audience will do anything to spend time with a great character. 5. It is critical to know what a character wants from the start. 6. It doesn’t matter if we “like” your character, or in the parlance of junior high whether we even “like-like” your character. 7. It is critical to smack the audience in the crotchal region with an undeniable reason to give a fuck. 8. You must prove this thesis: “This character is worth the audience’s time.” 9. Don’t let the character be a dingleberry stuck to the ass of a toad as he floats downriver on a bumpy log. 10. 11. 12. 13. The law of threes.
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Writing Fiction: How to Structure a Killer Novel Ending There are more than a few writers and teachers out there, many of them orders of magnitude more famous than I am (not hard to do), who don’t like to compartmentalize or even attempt to define the sequential parts and essential milestones of a story’s plot structure. Too formulaic, they say. Takes the fun and creativity out of it, they claim. A write-by-the-numbers strategy for hacks, a vocal few plead. When they do talk about how to write a book and, more specifically, story structure, they tend to dress it up with descriptions that are less engineering-speak in nature—“the hero’s journey” … “the inciting incident” … “the turn”—and are more appropriate to a lit class at Oxford. Makes them sound—or more accurately, feel—more writerly. What’s interesting is that the stories these writers create, especially if they’re published, and especially the stories they use as examples in their teaching, follow pretty much the same structural paradigm. Thank God for screenwriters.
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Creating Social Media Buttons Social media is an extremely valuable tool for promoting all your awesome marketing content. But with so many social networks providing their own individual content sharing and follow buttons, it's often difficult to know which social media button to use for what purpose. Be confused no more! We've put together a handy, comprehensive guide to help you understand the differences between the share and follow buttons for the top five social networks (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest), as well as how to implement them on your website, blog, and other content. And, to make the content you share in social media even more effective, download our 60 free templates for creating visual social media content here. Jump to instructions for: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Google+ | Pinterest The Difference Between Follow Buttons & Share Buttons Social Media Follow Buttons Social Media Share Links/Buttons Social Media Buttons for Twitter 1) Twitter Follow Button What It's For How They Look
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.