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Embedded questions, sometimes called indirect questions, are easy to use when you want to add more variety to your writing. We use them to change a direct question into a statement form. Indirect questions, which are also called polite questions, are one form of embedded questions. But you can use other forms to convert a…
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Learning how to change passive sentences to active voice is a skill all writers need. In most instances, all you need to do is move the subject before the verb. In a passive sentence, there is often the operator word, by before the object. But without one, it can be unclear who or what performs…
Author promotion is probably the last thing on a new author’s mind when publishing their first book. Promoting a book is relatively easy. There are plenty of options for book advertising as well as book promotion services. A new author also has plenty of alternatives when it comes to using free book marketing ideas and…
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Your choice of software for book editing will make all the difference to the final quality of your manuscript. Editing tools are indispensable for all authors, no matter how experienced. Writing a book is the easy part. But after you finish writing your first draft, you will need all the help you can get to…
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Writing and publishing a book on Amazon is easy. But to give yourself a better chance at success, should you test market your book? Test marketing is a proven marketing strategy to measure market interest before launching new products. But how can you test market your book idea? After you write your book, you can…
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When do you use setup vs. set up or perhaps set-up? It’s easy to make a mistake when you are writing in a hurry. But there’s a simple way to remember how to use setup and set up correctly. All you need to do is remember that one is a noun and adjective, and the…
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Are you wondering where to publish short stories online? You can find sites that accept short stories, but many have strict submission guidelines. Some don’t allow simultaneous submissions and only accept specific genres of short fiction. If you are a short story writer and want to publish your work online, you want an easier way.…
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One of the basic rules every writer should follow is to reference acronyms in writing. It applies to any form of writing. But in particular to articles, technical writing, and journalism. Whenever you use an acronym, you should reference it in full in the first instance to avoid confusing a reader. In the image above,…
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Yes, it’s definitely one of the most popular writing tools. But can you replace an editor by using Grammarly? How we write and check our writing is changing so fast because of all the online apps and tools we use. We might not think about artificial intelligence (AI), but it’s the brain behind many writing…
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Something didn’t work out. Now you want to delete a book after you published it. It can happen for a lot of reasons. You self-published a book on Amazon and got some terrible reviews. Perhaps you had a change of heart about the subject of your Kindle ebook. For whatever reason, you want to remove…
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