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Editing your own writing can feel like doing your own brain surgery. After you’ve completed your manuscript and you’re standing at the foot of Revision Mountain, climbing to the summit can feel impossible. It’s hard to look at your own writing with the objective eye needed to shape it into a tight, polished, publishable story - but just like writing, self-editing is a skill you can learn.

إنه كتاب يعالج الحالة السحرية للكتابة، يقدمها بتنوعها وغموضها وانكشافها، يقودنا إلى غابة بعيدة من الفنون والمعارف والشخصيات والروايات، لنخلص كقراء في النهاية إلى شعور ملهم بالرغبة في التقصي، هي لعبة حسن مدن الخاصة التي تجعل الحديث عن الكتابة يقود بالتأكيد إلى الانشغال بالقراءة ربما، أو إلى التلفت من حولنا، باحثين عن قلم، أو عن أزرار لوحة المفاتيح.

Write Your Book on the Side will show you how to write your first nonfiction Kindle book while you're working a full-time job, even if you've never written a book before. You'll learn how to come up with a winning topic, how to choose the right title, and how to publish your book in 10 easy steps.

Over her four decades of working in newsrooms big and small, Margaret Sullivan has become a trusted champion and critic of the American news media. In this bracing memoir, Sullivan traces her life in journalism and how trust in the mainstream press has steadily eroded.

In the second installment of the Ink to Impact series, "Worldbuilding," aspiring and established writers are invited on a journey to the heart of creation. This indispensable guide illuminates the path to crafting immersive, dynamic worlds that captivate listeners and breathe life into your narratives.

Dive into "Ink to Impact," the indispensable guide that transforms the vast and often daunting odyssey of self-publishing into a delightful journey. This isn't your ordinary how-to manual; it's a treasure map that leads you through the wilds of writing, publishing, and marketing with ease, wit, and wisdom. "Ink to Impact" demystifies the self-publishing process, making it not only accessible but thoroughly enjoyable.

There are some big problems with the blogging approach to making a living for your writing. This audiobook will help you solve those problems, make more money doing less work, put out better content that is more valuable to readers, and make much more efficient use of your precious time. Blogging, for writers hoping to expose their information to an audience, make efficient use of their time, and make a full-time living with their words, is a distant second best to the strategies laid out in Kill Your Blog: 12 Reasons Why You Should Stop F#$%ing Blogging!

Kristie Macrakis combines a storyteller's sense of drama with a historian's respect for evidence in this pause-resisting history of intrigue and espionage, love and war, magic and secrecy. From the piazzas of ancient Rome to the spy capitals of the Cold War, Macrakis' global history reveals the drama and importance of invisible ink. From Ovid's advice to use milk for illicit love notes, to al-Qaeda's hidden instructions in pornographic movies, this book presents stories of secret messaging that chart its evolution in sophistication and its impact on history.

Some writers have driven this monster into a corner where it lurks, the great unmentioned unmentionable waiting to pounce. Others chant the mantra “Writer’s Block Doesn’t Exist” in the vain hopes that daily repetition can avoid it. Still others thwart it with superstitious behavior—new notebooks and pens for new projects, story idea spinners to select common tropes, and an in-depth notebook that becomes thicker and thicker until the dam bursts and overwhelms the hulking monster.

Discovering Characters helps writers find the exteriors and interiors, public and private. We’ll dig around the foundations and climb to the roof. We’ll explore the open rooms and the storage closets. We’ll peek into rooms inhabited by such characters as diverse as Elizabeth and Darcy, the Iron Man, Aragorn and Frodo, Travis McGee, Medea, Macbeth, and Nanny McPhee.

This guidebook covers plot structure and the necessities of genre expectations so we writers can anticipate what readers want. It explores the six most common plot structures and has a detailed examination of 12 major sections in all novels, no matter the genre.

Struggling to structure your book series? Learn how to make a series work for you: increase reader engagement and take advantage of the built-in marketing potential a series gives you. Unlock the power of a series in your author career with How to Write a Series.

Are you a wellness provider, coach, or healer with a message to share? You have the power to heal and inspire people for generations to come, while leaving your footprint on the world. Writing your book will make you the undisputed authority in your niche and draw the right clients to you. But what if you don't consider yourself a writer, don't have much time, or feel totally overwhelmed and confused?

Enhanced with an exciting personal colloquy, Reviews by Cat Ellington: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 1 has its adroit wordsmith evaluating several of those written works produced by some of the most renowned names in both fiction and nonfiction literature, including Iceberg Slim, Stephen King, John Grisham, Jackie Collins, Donald Goines, and more.