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To Have or Have Not
Wordsmithereens is a whenever-I-feel-like-it column where I blast the hell out of some nitpicky topic pertaining to diction, editing, self-editing, or writing. Why? Because I’m anal-retentive with a...
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Undangling Your Participles
Wordsmithereens is a whenever-I-feel-like-it column where I blast the hell out of some nitpicky topic pertaining to diction, editing, self-editing, or writing. Why? Because I’m anal-retentive with a...
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Treat Your Digital Fiction Like Software
How You Can Constantly Improve Your Indie-Published Work When traditional publishing ruled, once a book was printed, it was set in stone. That’s why they employed editors and copy editors to improve...
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Getting Your Readers to Click “Buy Now”
Don’t let a humdrum book description keep readers from clicking Buy Now. Here’s how to make your book sales copy work for you. You work hard to write a good story, make an eye-catching cover, and...
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Easy Way to Write Your Story’s Elevator Pitch
I recently reread James Scott Bell’s helpful little book, Write Your Novel from the Middle (Compendium Press, 2014). In it, he relates an easy process to write a three-sentence elevator pitch for your...
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