How to Get Your Dragon to Behave in Scrivener
Happy Monday to all the Story Empire readers. It’s so good to be back with all of you once again to share a few helpful (hopefully) thoughts. Today I wanted to share a few tweaks so that you can use Dragon Naturally Speaking with Scrivener. Let’s jump right in and get to it.
Dictation with Dragon & Scrivener
Nuance created Dragon NaturallySpeaking
For those who may have missed my last few posts, I will include a few links back to those so that you can get more detailed information about Dragon. I’ve been using Dragon now for a couple of months which has allowed me to make significant progress in two novel projects. In fact, I am working on both projects at the same time as I write this post. That’s the power of Dragon; I can dictate while I’m in the car and edit the other book at nigh…
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A Sense of Style
In the writing world, the word style means the way in which an idea is expressed. Style has to do with form, not content. Readers pick up a book because of content, but put it down because of style.
As a writer, you have to develop your own writing style. The way you arrange words is the nature of you. Your style should be specifically yours and no one else’s.
When developing your individual style, here are some things to consider:
- Listen to what you write. Writing is like music. The words you write make sounds, and when those sounds are in harmony, the writing works.
- Mimic spoken language. Writing convey to the reader the sense of conversation. It should provide the intimacy and warmth of personal conversation.
- Vary sentence length. Consider the following:
- Vary sentence construction. You should always strive for clarity when you write…
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5 Reasons to Print Out Your Work In Progress
Hello writers and good morning to you!
I hope you’ve all had a great week. Last week I spoke about finishing the third draft of my novel, and with the third draft done I took to printing my work in progress out. Having this physical copy was important to me for the next stage of editing, and I’d like to share 5 reasons why I believe you should print out your work in progress.
Let me know if you agree or disagree by sharing your thoughts in the comments below, or contacting me at any time.
1. It feels amazing
Writing a novel is a long process that often brings many challenges. You may love writing, but we all have days when we find it tiresome, frustrating and down right difficult. Holding your novel in your hands is an amazing feeling and it makes it all worth it. It may…
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An Open Letter…
Jeff,
While you are perusing this open letter, please think about indies who have their book name and story line stolen. Think about the one who worked her tail off to get said book to print one and a half years before the title and story came out by another author. It is sad that from 2015 through 2018, KDP and Create Space were fine with me until this mess. Think about the KDP royalties, and book sales are kept by you and not given to the author. What does it take Jeff???? From mu view, you just don’t care. Mary Schmidt (pen name S. Jackson) and stolen book named Suzy Has a Secret!!!
… asking Jeff Bezos to help himself and his contributing authors.
Dear Jeff,
We all know that the only thing you fear is the loss of income. I wonder if you are aware how much you are losing from non sales of ebooks in your literary section? Currently you have several million books of ours consigned to the literary equivalent of purgatory. Why? Because of your company’s ridiculous rating system, designed to consign a book to oblivion in a couple of days after it goes live on Amazon if it isn’t instantly bought in its thousands by the general public worldwide.
Someone close to you who you trust needs to make you aware of how much lost profit is currently sitting on your electronic shelves! It’s bad enough that you allowed your minions to come up with ways of saving money by changing the rules regarding the pittance paid out…
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Creating a Universal Amazon Link – One Link Amazon Sites in all Countries
Twitter users! Change your password, now
Good to know this! Thanks!
I subscribe to an Australian government website called ‘Stay Smart Online’. The site sends me notifications of current security alerts, and this is the latest:
‘As a precaution, Twitter is urging more than 330 million users to change their password after a glitch left log-in details exposed in the company’s internal computer system.
When you set a password for your account, Twitter uses technology that masks it, so no one can see your password.
The company recently identified a bug that stored unmasked passwords in an internal log. Twitter found this error itself, removed the passwords and is now looking at how it can prevent this from happening again.
Twitter has advised it has fixed the bug, and has no reason to believe the passwords left Twitter’s systems or were misused by anyone.’
Despite these assurances, however, you really should change your Twitter password now. More importantly, you should…
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6 Self-Publishing Myths That Need to Die | Kristina Adams
I wasn’t gonna share this article (except to my Facebook and Twitter page), but I loved what Kristina was saying so much I just had to share it here as well. If you’re still trying to decide on Self-Publishing or not this article should clear some things up for you. I am always talking to new Self-Publishers about the importance of platform so I found the following statement an important one to share:
The assumption that traditional publishers will do all of your marketing for you is one of the biggest myths when it comes to traditional publishing. The more a publisher pays for a book, the bigger the marketing budget. Unfortunately, unless you already have a big platform, it’s pretty unlikely you’ll get a fat cheque or a decent marketing budget. Publishers pay more for celebrity books—and market them heavily—because they already have an audience. They know…
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50 Book Marketing Ideas Every Author Needs to Know – Reedsy…
Extract from an article on Reedsy:
No matter what kind of book you’re writing, all self-publishing authors will eventually reach the same question: what’s the best way to market your book?
The great news is that you’re not the first indie author to face this challenge.
By following in the footsteps of those who have succeeded before you, you can create a focused and effective plan that will get people snatching up your book.
In this post, we offer up dozens of book marketing ideas that you can steal for your own promotional efforts.
