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Customer Personas: Why Every Writer (& Blogger) Needs Them
Editor's Note: Customer personas, none of your business, right? They're for hardcore B2B, not bloggers and writers. Actually, I disagree. Each time I've written a book, I've created a customer persona first, although I might have called mine a reader persona. Here's a...
9 First Time Author Blunders You Need to Avoid
Books can make, break, or elevate a brand. And author blunders destroy a book. A book is the ultimate business card and a creative way to expand your voice. Most of all, publishing a book is a powerful way to share your story and expertise in a way that can change...
15 Killer Tips From Successful Bloggers You Can Use Immediately
Do you want to blog better, faster and with more fun? I've collected 15 badass tips for blog writers. These 15 tips are from some of my favorite bloggers! I'm sure they'll inspire you. Make sure you scroll down to see the fascinating infographic about how to...
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Word Count of Famous Novels (& How Long it Took to Write Them)[Infographic]
Ever needed to know the word count of famous novels? Maybe to work out what your own novel's word count should be. Or ever wondered how long they took to write? So you could work out how long you should take to write yours. Ignoring the greats for a moment, the...
How to Double Your Chance of Landing a Book Deal (Before You’ve Written a Single Word)
Editor's Note: This is a guest post on landing a book deal by first time fiction author, Verity Bright who had three publishers offering to publish her first novel, A Very English Murder. Even if you've yet to write a word, Verity shows you how to turn this to your...
5 Simple but Crippling Blogging Mistakes (& How to Avoid Them)
Editor's note: We all make blogging mistakes. Even editors of blogs like WritetoDone occasionally mess up! Often this is because we forget to KISS. KISS stands for ‘Keep It Simple, Stupid’. It’s not meant to be derogatory, as the first article in the series explains....
QR Code: Why Every Book You Publish in 2024 Should Have One
With the advent of technology, people's attention span has decreased significantly. According to a study by Microsoft Canada, the average attention span of an ordinary human being today is only eight seconds. Scrolling indefinitely on our social media apps...
Literature and Christmas: How Books Have Shaped Our Festive Traditions
Literature and Christmas. Have you ever thought about the connection? For many of us Christmas is a busy time. Buying presents, going to church, entertaining and... reading. For me, the festive season is a time to catch up on all the books I meant to, but never did,...
4 Steps to Achieving Your Author Dream
It's not as hard to achieve your author dream as you may think.Writing a successful book in a short space of time might sound like a difficult task. Impossible, even. Back in the day, I might have agreed with you. I didn't see myself as particularly good at English,...
After Publishing Her Book THIS Unexpected Thing Happened
Fast forward for a moment and imagine that you have just published a book. Imagine finding your name on Amazon and seeing the book you wrote is ready for sale. Wouldn’t that be a wonderful moment? Now let me ask you a question: What will happen next? I mean, do you...
Kurt Vonnegut & How to Shape an Unforgettable Story
The fundamental idea is that stories have shapes which can be drawn on graph paper, and that the shape of a given society’s stories is at least as interesting as the shape of its pots or spearheads, Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut published fourteen novels over a period...
4 Apps to Help You Become a Better Content Writer and Marketer
Do you want to become a better content writer? Ever since my childhood, I was fascinated with the idea of writing down my thoughts. I used to write personal notes, poems or odes for my loved ones. Sometimes, I would pen down my introspections on life. There were a...
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How to Write a Sentence That You Can Be Proud of [Infographic]
You're a writer, you know how to write a sentence, right? Of course you do. Bur have you ever heard the phrase Keep it simple, stupid? Or the acronym KISS? Apparently, it originated in the 1960s from Navy and was then adopted by the programming world. Here's what...
How to Make a Book Outline (In Under 1 Easy Hour)
Do you dream of writing a novel but just can't think of how to make a book outline? Maybe you even have an idea for a plot but you're stuck and can't find a way to move forward. It can make you feel bad and ashamed. Read on if this rings a bell...When we have great...
Podcasting: Are You Missing Out on the Next Big Thing?
It might seem counter-intuitive to suggest that podcasting is the next big thing for writers. After all, writing is well, written and read and podcasting is well, spoken and listened to 🙂 But there's no real difference. One is the written word and one is the spoken...
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34 First Lines of Famous Books You Wished You’d Written [Infographic]
They seem so effortless, don't they? The first lines of famous books? Unless, of course, you're a writer yourself. And then they seem anything but. In the last of this series of 3 infographics I wanted to go from all that macro stuff on how to create a best-seller...
3 Things I Learned as an Accidental Freelancer
"Think and grow rich" [you wish], "Manifest your dreams," [yeah, right]. Have you ever read books or articles with similar topics and dismissed them as nonsense? I have. BUT… I was in for a surprise. A few weeks ago I thought it might be interesting to do some...
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21 Best Selling Novels of the 21st Century [Infographic]
Wouldn't it be amazing to have written one of the best selling novels of the 21st century? Well, there's still time... A couple of weeks ago I asked: Is it really possible to write a best selling novel to order? To break down its constituent parts and use them as a...
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