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The most flexible and versatile punctuation mark—the Em Dash There are many ways to use dashes in writing. But it is necessary first to make the difference between a hyphen, and an em
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We use common abbreviations and acronyms all the time, but what do they mean? The English language uses many forms of word abbreviation. We use shortened forms increasingly for text messaging to reduce a word or
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New authors find it is easy to self-publish a book. But you can quickly run into self-publishing problems. If you use a publishing service such as Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Smashwords, or Draft2Digital,
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Author earnings are in freefall. 25% of all authors surveyed earned $0 in book-related income in 2017. If you want to read that headline again, take a look at the Authors Guild
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Do you need more synonyms to find other words for said? Dialogue words, or tags, should be used as a seasoning and not as the main ingredient in your writing. Readers have
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What are backlinks? You create a backlink when you add a website page link to an external site. On most web pages or, more often, in a blog post, external links are
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