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Brands Often Overlook This Superhero of Storytelling

Content Marketing Institute

OK, maybe writing this article as a comic script isn’t such a great idea, even if prose is at a disadvantage when discussing such a visual medium. A picture can help somebody to understand what you want them to do, whereas prose requires an abstract to concrete translation that not everybody’s going to be able to do.

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2023 Writing Contests You Should Consider Entering

Freelance Writing Jobs

Deadline: January 31, 2023 Storytwigs Microfiction This is a fun, relaxed, free competition for extremely short pieces of prose (storytwigs). You don’t have to be literal, of course; your happy place might well be a concept or a state of mind. Entries should be 100 words or fewer, and the prizes range from $10 to $100 dollars.

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2023 Writing Contests You Should Consider Entering

Freelance Writing Jobs

Deadline: January 31, 2023 Storytwigs Microfiction This is a fun, relaxed, free competition for extremely short pieces of prose (storytwigs). You don’t have to be literal, of course; your happy place might well be a concept or a state of mind. Entries should be 100 words or fewer, and the prizes range from $10 to $100 dollars.

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The Mindset And Business Of Selling Books Direct With Russell Nohelty

The Creative Penn

I did my first Kickstarter in 2014, which is when I really started taking it very seriously, after I took all of the rights back from my publishers. Listening to the other side of it, where the prose people are so retailer-focused, is wild to me. Joanna: Yes, I mean, I've built my business on the flywheel concept as well.

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Pivoting Genres And Mindset Tips For Success With Dan Padavona

The Creative Penn

It was probably late 2013, early 2014, I read a fictional book, which absolutely blew me away, and I just knew right then and there, I needed to create something like this. I began as a horror author in 2014, switched to thrillers in 2018, and that's pretty much where things took off for me. I didn't think you were that old, actually.

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Writing Nature Memoir With Merryn Glover

The Creative Penn

Joanna: And then one of the things I'm absolutely fascinated with is the concept of truth with a small t and truth with a big T. Merryn: Yeah, so writing plays is just kind of wonderfully different to writing prose, particularly fiction. So to come out in hardback in 2014, paperback 2015, and the publisher went bust in 2017.

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