Is it wreaked havoc or wrought havoc? While both are used, wreaked havoc is the correct term for causing destruction or chaos. Wrought actually means “worked” or “shaped” (like wrought iron) and is usually reserved for things that have been created or brought about through effort. But after hitting the dictionaries, I discovered there is…
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Does social media book promotion still work? In short, no, because of three problems. 1. There is a lack of user intent. 2. You have to pay to get attention. 3. Few people use social media to buy books. Why is social media book promotion failing? Ten or even five years ago, social media was…
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Adsense and Core Web Vitals can work happily together despite what you might read. Yes, at first, I struggled with site speed and slow loading for pages with Adsense, especially on mobile. But with a few tweaks and learning how Google calculates Core Web Vitals (CWV), my sites are now getting all green signals on…
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Is it people, persons, or peoples? While people is the standard plural for person, the other two have very specific roles. Use persons for legal or technical contexts involving a countable number of individuals. Use peoples when referring to multiple distinct ethnic, national, or cultural groups. The difference between people and persons From the early…
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You want to publish a PDF article online but don’t have a website or blog. Most of all, you don’t want to pay to publish your article. Well, there is a quick and easy way you can do it. Learning how to publish a PDF on the web is very easy. Then, you can share your…
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There’s no doubt that the hyphen is disappearing slowly from written English. But do we still need it? In many cases, yes. While words like email have replaced e-mail, this shift reflects a broader move toward simpler forms in modern writing. Even hyphenated surnames are becoming less consistent. Yet despite this trend, the hyphen still…
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Great ideas don’t always strike you at convenient times, and that’s when mobile writing apps can be a big help. If you are writing a book or planning to, your choice is usually a desktop application or word processor. But some writers might use a phone app for short-form writing. However, no matter how you…
Yes, using too many weak, poor, or bad adverbs can be a sign of lazy writing. But as a part of speech, adverbs have their place. You can’t write without them. The problem arises when you use too many adverbs that probably have better alternatives. When you learn to identify these problem adverbs, you can…
Using your relationships to sell books is one of the most overlooked strategies in self-publishing. If you are a new author, it’s one of the best ways to help you get book sales as soon as you launch your new book. Because self-publishing a book or ebook is so easy, thousands of new authors release…
Which spelling is correct? Is it backward or backwards? The good news is that both of them are perfectly correct for the adverb form. But it depends on whether you write in US or British English. For US writers, there is usually no S. But for the UK and some other national varieties of English,…
