How to Write Sizzling Story Outlines and Avoid a Sagging Middle
This book made an immediate entry among my favorite books:
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They Laughed at My Pancakes
Can you imagine a time without cell phones? If they’d been in common use when I was 17, it could have saved me some mockery and shame. My boyfriend and I had gone camping, and when it was time for dinner, we went to the public phone to call my mother. "Can you tell me
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He HATED Promoting This Product
Some things are best kept a secret. And one of my friends, let’s just call him Ed, had a secret he’d kept away from me and everybody else in this group. He told us, that he HATED to promote the product he just mailed for. Not because it’s a bad product, but because he’d been
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“Ha! Write four books? You’ve told me that joke before”
This shocked me. In one of the writer’s groups I’m in, a woman told us how she’d been excited about her plans. She wanted to write four books that year. And she said that to her daughter. The daughter’s reaction? “Ha! You’ve not even been able to write ONE book the last four years.”
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When “free” doesn’t equal “junk”
I don’t know about you… …but when I see that something is "free," I automatically think "it must be junk." Why else would they give it away for free? Luckily there are exceptions. Like this one: ==> http://malka.im/goodriter <== It’s a huge giveaway, available right now, with resources for writers. They are normally products you
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Get “Advanced Book Marketing for Starving Authors” for $0.99 [Limited Time]
Launch price $0.99 today and tomorrow. The price will go up to $9.95 after that. This books is a masterpiece. It shows you totally new way to market your book – whether you’re into non-fiction or fiction.
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[Fiction] Important update
Two months ago, I told you about a plugin to Firefox and Chrome called Kindle Spy. ==> http://malka.im/kdspy Since then, I haven’t used it much. Not because it’s bad – on the contrary. But if you remember what I wrote back then, then you’ll know that I found a gold nugget – a hidden gem
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Inspiration for Writing a Story – Where Does Inspiration Originate From?
Where does inspiration for writing come from? A couple of years ago, I got the idea to something that could end up as a series… It was a slight problem, of course, that back then I’d never as much as finished one novella. So other than writing the introduction to this series, I kept it
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How to Write Dialogue
Three books about writing dialogue. I highly recommend the two of them. Dialogue – The Ultimate Writers’ Guide (Kindle version) My rating: *** Some good points in the book, but it left me with the impression that something was missing. And to be honest, I remember nothing about what I read. So either I’m stupid
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