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How to Structure a Blog Post
Writing effectively is as much an art as it is a science, and blog writing is no exception. Having a blog can be a great way to connect with your...
How to Run a Writing Workshop for Children
This is a guest post by Katherine Hetzel. Creative writing workshops sound easy to do---you just find a load of different prompts, give them to the...
What’s the Ideal Writing Environment?
Where we write can make a huge difference to what we write, how we write, and even how we feel about the finished product. It's a part of the...
How to Create a Writer Website or Blog
Like it or not, websites are an important part of life as a writer in the twenty-first century. Your website is the first place readers who find you in an interview, on a guest blog post, or through your books, will go to find out more information about you and the other things you’ve written. If you don’t have a website, you risk losing those potential readers and even future sales.
11 Tips for Balancing Your Writing with Your Full-Time Job
So, you wanna be a writer, huh? Me too. Wait, you have a full time job? Me too! It’s hard, right? Balancing that nine to five with the ever...
Can Publishing One Book Change EVERYTHING?
Can publishing one book change EVERYTHING? Does it change anything? That's the question covered in this week's Facebook Live. Want to know what to...
Lessons in Self-Publishing: Should You Make Your Book Permafree?
Mark Dawson recommends it. Joanna Penn recommends it. A whole bunch of indie authors (myself included) do it. But should you make your book...
5 Rookie Book Design Mistakes to Avoid
This is a guest post by Lucia Tang. You’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but everybody does. That’s probably not what you want to hear...
7 Jobs for Creative Writing Graduates
When I was coming up to graduating from my BA in Creative Writing, I received no guidance from the uni or anyone else about what to do next. Frankly, no one knew what to do with me. I was only cut out for sitting in a darkened room with a typewriter on my own with no money for the rest of my life…right?
Wrong.