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Developing your Supporting Characters - Part 1

Though not commonly spoken or written about, supporting characters are as integral to your book as the main characters are. Even though their role is not central to the plot, supporting characters make the work complete. However, creating secondary characters is not as easy as...

Why Keep a Diary?

Samuel Pepys elevated it into an art form. Anne Frank made it famous. People keep diaries for different reasons, but often, it is rooted in something deep and personal. While many of us keep a diary to keep track of our own affairs, others keep...

Thoughts on Hemingway

Who does not know the name, Ernest Hemingway? The man is a literary fixture whose work has become recommended reading in schools, and his works are easily found in libraries. He is no doubt one of the greatest American writers who ever lived. However, like most...

Writers and an Education

Are you reliable? Do you produce quality work? I feel this is better than a degree. I disagree about needing a degree. Do you have plenty of examples of your work to provide? Make a resume with your portfolio and move your tush onto websites...

Steps to Follow While Writing Your Memoir

Writing your own memoir or a memoir about someone you love is exceptionally difficult. You have to open old wounds or talk about difficult things that can leave you exhausted for days. However, more than that, most authors experience self-doubt about writing their stories and...

Excessive Adverbs and Qualifiers

Most of the time, when we talk of overwriting, it means repetition of scenes, excessive descriptions, narration, and dialogue. In the Elements of Style, Strunk and White advise that concise writing is like a car, that it should never have unnecessary parts. Other than the components...

10 Strategies to Finding a Killer USP – Part 3

Welcome to the final part of my mini-series on finding your killer USP. Step 6 – Creating Personas Anyone who is authentic, who is true to themselves, will not have any competition. You don’t have to believe me though. Scott Stratten, popular speaker, social media authority and...

10 Strategies to Finding a Killer USP – Part 2

Welcome to part two, let’s just jump in where we left off. Step 5 – Stating the Obvious Let’s say that you sell wireless routers. Prospective customers may own Windows Pcs or MACs. Or they may own both. If that is the case, they want to know...

10 Strategies to Finding a Killer USP – Part 1

You know that every business should have one and yet still you struggle to find a unique selling point. You can't see any differences between you and your competition and especially not a winning difference. And that’s because businesses can only differ in so many...

Why You Shouldn’t Read If You Want the Best Copywriting Gigs

How many people have never picked up a book since they left school? I’ll tell you now, there are a lot of writers who simply do not read, especially fiction writers. It might also surprise you to know that there is a huge market out there...