Rome wasn’t built in a day… but they were laying bricks every single hour. The same principle applies to building a successful blog: you need to work on it every single day, and you need to do the right things, and you need to do them consistently over a long period of time. Notice that […]

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Greetings Story Empire readers! This week we continue with another use of Scrivener’s Inspector – Document References . Just as a refresher, the Inspector is turned on by clicking on View in Scrivener. Slide down the menu to Layout and click on Inspector in the fly-out menu that is displayed (for keyboard command enthusiasts use […]

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I have been blogging for over seven years now, which means that I’ve been making mistakes for a long, long time. A lot of them. That’s what experience is: the ability to make a lot of mistakes, and to learn from them. That’s why I’ve compiled a list of the 9 most important tips you […]

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So far, I’ve never attended a book fair, but will probably do so here in Greece. So, I found this guest post by Elaine Bennett of particular interest. I hope you, too, enjoy it! Elaine is a marketing specialist-turned blogger, currently writing for Bizzmark Blog. 4 Tips for a Successful Book Fair First off, congrats…

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Inspiration. One of those words you just love to hate sometimes. It’s unreliable. And when inspiration hits, you just gotta start punching those damn keys. Nothing wrong with that, but after do you do after you’ve transformed a blank page into what resembles a blog post? Edit it? Okay… And then? How do you know […]

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on The Creative Penn: Writers know it’s important to create complex, vivid characters that keep readers engaged. In this post, Kyle A. Massa from ProWritingAid shares how to make your novels’ settings equally compelling. __________ Character. Plot. Setting. Of those three, which do you enjoy writing the most? For myself (and many writers I know), character […]

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on The Writers for Hire: Publishing has a long and romantic history, filled with names and figures that we all know. For example, most aspiring writers can tell you not only who it was that invented the printing press, but also what is often considered to be the first book ever printed on it? A […]

via Publishing Guide – Defining The Terms And People Found In Publishing – by Douglas Paton… — Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog

Originally posted on Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog: Social Media is both a boon and a curse to new writers. Online writing groups and forums are an excellent source of insider information on the publishing industry—stuff we once could only find at expensive classes and writers’ conferences. But social media is also a…

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