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This first volume in the series, Time Management for Writers: The Magic of 10 Minutes will help you to balance your life with your desire to write. This easy-to-follow guide, with plenty of interactive exercises, is the first step in your writing journey.

As hard as the craft of writing is, the greatest challenges writers face are often within ourselves. Author, essayist, and speaker William Kenower knows this struggle firsthand and hears them from writers everywhere he teaches and appears. In this candid and encouraging book, he dismantles the myth that some writers have talent and others don't and shares relatable stories, wisdom, and best practices for reengaging with our passion, following our curiosity, and staying connected to what matters most.

Word Play is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to help you improve your communication skills. This book discusses a wide range of topics to build a deeper perception of human dynamics so you can communicate with clarity, power, and warmth. In Word Play, you will learn: how to form allies and grow a network from the ground up, the art of consistency and how to stay disciplined, how to stop people-pleasing, fundamental truths regarding the field of dark psychology, and more.

Storytelling is a fundamental part of being human and it has been at the core of human experience since inception. In fact, neuroscientists have found that our brains are hardwired for creating, sharing, and understanding our world through stories. Everyone relies on words to deliver a message. But there is a difference between talking about your day and the masterful art of storytelling. Whether you work in fiction or nonfiction, a marketer, a freelancer, a novelist, a student, or a teacher. Masterful Storytelling is an invaluable resource for writers of all trades.

Writing a book is fun and easy - yes, fun and easy - but it may not always feel that way. How do you find the time to write? How do you keep momentum? How do you deal with the horror of showing anyone a single sentence of your work-in-progress? The answers remain fun and easy, and author Elizabeth Sims will take your hand, dispel your worries, and show you how it's done in this stress-free guide to accomplishing your dream of writing your book.

Writing short works allows you to practice, practice, practice, and then succeed in all your writing endeavors. In this writing course in an audiobook, you’ll discover fun, quick, and easy exercises that will show you how to: Use best writing techniques to skyrocket your work to another level, strengthen your writing voice, avoid major writing mistakes, or twist them to become writing tools, create an interesting page look and more.

In this audiobook, you’ll find an outline with the questions you need. Examples to show you step by step how to write your ideal scene. All you need is your computer and determination to write a certain book scene. It would not take you long at all. Just sit down, read, and start learning.

Be you an established planner, pantser, or unsure new author, this comprehensive guide has you covered. Adopting a "tools not rules" approach, you’ll discover dozens of definitive worldbuilding tricks and strategies, including surveys showing what audiences want; identifying ineffective, effective, and inspired worldbuilding; the ins and outs of immersion; enhancing audience experience with fantasy conceits; and the four Cs of worldbuilding.

"Taller de Narrativa" es un audiolibro didáctico en el que la autora aúna su experiencia como profesora de talleres literarios y aborda con ejemplos los puntos clave de cualquier narración, desde el argumento al estilo, pasando por la construcción de personajes, su descripción, los diálogos, las ubicaciones de la historia. Por último, el audiolibro incluye como apoyo varios ejercicios que el lector o lectora puede realizar, tanto aplicados a un taller de narrativa como en solitario.

Do you want to make your book jaw-droppingly exciting? Do you struggle with coming up with plot twist ideas? Do you need help with knowing how to execute them? How to Create a Killer Plot Twist is the only writing guide you'll ever need. Wow your readers with plot twists that they never saw coming! Avoid those dreaded one-star reviews and disappointed readers who then won't go on to read any more of your books. How to Create a Killer Plot Twist is the writing guide you've been looking for if you want easy-to-implement strategies to take your writing to the next level.

Author of 30 books, Bradley Charbonneau spent nine years of his life “planning” and “thinking about” and sometimes even “talking about with friends” but certainly not actually, you know, “writing” his perfect book. What if we took away the pressure of perfection? What if we pulverized procrastination? What if we wrote our best book ever as our second book and first, we broke through our challenges with our worst book ever?

The book has launched. And now you stare at it on the screen. How will you get more reviews? In the world of publishing, reviews matter. They are the social proof that lets people know your book is worth their time. Most people don’t leave them, so what’s an author to do?

Get the Word Out is a guide to writing a nonfiction book or memoir grounded in a sense of purpose. This practical and inspiring audiobook offers advice for every phase of the journey, from clarifying your concept, and owning your authority to drafting the manuscript and doing the important work after publishing. Whether you're an industry thought leader seeking to expand your impact or someone with a tiny following and a big idea, this audiobook will help you approach your project with clarify, confidence, and commitment.

Blogs are great for sharing information for free. Unfortunately, this means the inherent value of a blog post - no matter how great the info is - is zero dollars. I suggest you find a different vehicle. A vehicle that is fueled by something you can actually control: your content. That vehicle is a book. With a book, you will repackage the content that you’ve already made and turn it into money. You will repackage all future blog posts and turn those into money, too.

The biggest challenge for authors is transitioning from being a writer to being an author, which are two totally different occupations. Many authors have the mind-set that once they are published, their publisher handles all marketing and the sales come in like magic. In today's world, that is not reality, no matter how you are published.

Thirty-six real authors give us an in depth look at their successes, their mistakes, and their careers as writers. There is nothing in the world as incredible as creating something, and getting to hear about other people enjoying it. You know that you’ve made a change in someone's life, even if it’s only in a small way. It’s one of the best feelings in the world.

Waymarks for Authors provides an unbiased and practical overview of writing and selling fiction today - the whole caboodle. With myth-busting simplicity, it exposes the forces that truly drive the fiction market. For the aspiring author, it provides over 80 signposts towards the ultimate goal of publication, reveals the true scope of the undertaking, and poses thought-provoking questions for those who think they know the meaning of a good book.

Whether you are a newly published or an experienced author, you will need to market your books. Sales depend solely on your ability to gain new readers. There are simple things that most writers forget or just don't do that will not cost them anything but time. We hope you will find this book helpful now and in the future. Enjoy your self-publishing journey, and we wish you much success!

This booklet from Carolyn Howard-Johnson, a UCLA Extension Writers' Program instructor for nearly a decade, helps authors love the project they most love to hate - writing a book proposal. She has taken the guessing out of the book proposal process. Now, there is no need to take expensive, time-consuming classes or spend hours reading a tome to find the voice and format that will propel an author's idea from a dream to reality.

Do you want to make a living with your writing? Do you want to turn your words into multiple streams of income? I’m Joanna Penn and I left my corporate job a decade ago to become a full-time author entrepreneur. In this completely updated third edition, I’ll explain how I make a living with my writing and share tips from other writers on how you can do it too with practical, actionable advice that you can implement for yourself.