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What If You’re Writing Novellas? Now What?

Jane Friedman

My second novella, That Night Alive, won the 2016 novella prize from Miami University Press. My first novella, Palms Are Not Trees After All, won the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize from Texas Review Press, in 2007. And my third novella, Life / Insurance, won the Fugere Book Prize from Regal House and is published today.

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Sometimes It IS About the Research

Jane Friedman

It was a great job: I spent the summer of 2016 going from archive to archive, devouring the writing of activists both well-known, like Lucretia Mott and Alice Paul, and less so, like Martha Schofield. Schofield was born in 1839 to a family of devout Quaker abolitionists whose family farm was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

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18 AI Startups to Watch

Backlinko

Vidnoz Website: [link] Year founded: 2016 HQ: Los Angeles, California Users: Not publicly disclosed Funding: Undisclosed Description: Vidnoz functions as an AI-powered video creation tool that allows users to generate videos with minimal effort. It currently works with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet.

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13 Limiting Beliefs That Hold Writers Back

Positive Writer

In the Spring of 2016, my book, Align Your Writing Habits to Success, hit #1 in my category on Amazon and I became a bestselling author. That same year, two… The post 13 Limiting Beliefs That Hold Writers Back first appeared on Positive Writer.

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How to Become Self-Employed: 5 Key Moves for New Freelancers

CopyBlogger

In the lead-up to quitting my nine-to-five back in August 2016, the question of how to become self-employed plagued my. Continue Reading The post How to Become Self-Employed: 5 Key Moves for New Freelancers appeared first on Copyblogger.

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What Are the Best Days and Times to Post on Social Media?

Contently

This marks a significant change from the morning and midweek peaks that dominated CoSchedule’s earlier research from 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2019. The top-performing days have also shifted, with Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays emerging as the new champions of engagement. In 2024, it appears that late-day engagement is where the action is.

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Smartphone Usage Statistics

Backlinko

billion 2016 1.43 Mobile share accounts for 57.6% of daily internet time among users aged 16 to 64 worldwide. hours per day in 2023. Here’s a table with a number of smartphone users worldwide over time since 2014: Note: Data includes forecasts. Year Smartphone Users Worldwide 2014 1 billion 2015 1.22 billion 2017 1.66 billion 2018 1.94