When do you use and how do you choose between a colon and a semicolon? Getting these two punctuation marks grammatically correct in your writing can be a little challenging at first. But it is not that difficult. They are closely linked to the comma, signaling a relationship between separate clauses in a complete sentence.…
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The rule of three in writing is the idea that when you present things in threes, they are more memorable, impactful, and effective than other patterns. Readers grasp threes quickly because they feel complete, balanced, and easy to recall. You see it everywhere in literature, movies, speeches, and advertising. Fairy tales give us The Three…
Good blog design is how you keep readers on your site. Here are some blog design tips for authors to help you create, update, or refresh your site. There are so many options, plugins, widgets, and add-ons that you can use with blog themes now. But blog homepages often become cluttered with too many of…
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Forget all about using Microsoft Word to create your free ebook cover for Kindle. The results are always low contrast, flat, and dull. There is a much better way to make a DIY book cover that will stand out from the crowd. And it will save you time because you can do it in just…
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Discovering how to polish your writing is a matter of learning, checking, editing, and proofreading. When you start writing your first draft, concentrate purely on getting all your ideas down. You shouldn’t worry at all about spelling and grammar checking at this stage. Good writers know that ideas are the most valuable asset in any…
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Advertising is the Internet’s original sin. Content creation takes a lot of time and hard work. If time is money, you spend an enormous amount of time writing articles and blog posts. When search engines index your work and web pages, people can find and access them. Then they can read everything you write for…
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There really are some weird names for things in English. Take, for instance, the day before yesterday. Most of us would probably use phrases like the day before the day before, or two days ago. But believe it or not, there’s a perfectly good word for it: ereyesterday. Who would know that? However, if you…
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How do you write reported speech dialogue? When you start to learn to write dialogue, it seems simple. All you need to do is add a reporting verb or dialogue tag. You probably learned this in high school. When a character speaks lines of dialogue, you put a double quotation mark at the beginning and end.…
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Many new writers think that they should write a book. Then, they leap instantly into publishing and try to become a published author and make mistakes. But it’s much easier to get an article published online. Getting a book deal with a traditional publisher is very difficult if you are a first-time author. You can…
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Does giving away free Kindle ebooks work? Every self-publishing author asks this question. In my case, I think I have asked myself this question at least one thousand times. Over the years, I must have given away more ebooks than I dare contemplate. I have used Amazon KDP Select and Smashwords and even turned a…
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