Jane Friedman

JULY 2, 2024

Today’s post is excerpted from The Untold Story of Books: A Writer’s History of Book Publishing by Michael Castleman. From the first copyrights to the present day, piracy has been a thread woven through the tapestry of publishing. In current parlance, they were self-published. Why pay to publish?

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Grammarly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Or how Carolyn Keene keeps producing Nancy Drew mysteries ninety years after the first one was published? The works created by ghostwriters can be any type of published writing, including the following: journalism. literary prose. religious texts. Some romance publishers pay just $65 per story. You’re not alone.

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Grammarly

APRIL 9, 2024

Just be sure to use the proper citation, both in-text and in the bibliography at the end. A more definite reference appears in food testing records of the United States Department of Agriculture published in 1887. 5 Review your content for accuracy and proofread your prose. The origin of jelly beans is obscure.

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I never thought of myself that way, at least not until after reading the reviews of my first essay collection published over a decade ago. For starters, it has helped sharpen my prose. Like this text I just received from Xfinity, my telecommunications provider that has been trying for several hours to get me back online.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 8, 2018

Content clarity is the user experience of how difficult or easy it is to read text. Some studies show even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose. Publish Settings. Post editor — Enter the text for your post. There are two modes of editing: Visual and Text.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 30, 2023

How to choose books for mentor texts The first hurdle is choosing which books to use as your mentor texts. Hundreds of books are published every year, and writers need criteria to craft their reading lists. Annotating is one of the best ways to engage with a text. Interrogate the text: How does it work to create emotion?

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 19, 2023

They said ebooks (especially self-published ebooks) were going to kill the printed word and put traditional authors, agents, editors, and bookstores out of business. Digital publishing-on-demand was disruptive, and the industry needed to adjust and adapt. But here’s the thing: it did. Yes, AI will cause disruption.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The truth is, listicles can be as helpful and informative as prose, provided the content is high quality. That means there’s an opportunity for me to create better content than what everyone else has already published. It’s challenging to sustain readers’ attention with just a wall of text, numbered or not.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 12, 2023

How authors might approach co-creating with AI if they want to work with traditional publishers What remains the same despite advances in technology: “Creative AI is going to change everything. Then I would each generate one sentence of a love story, and I published that in Lit Hub a couple of years ago now. Do you know that?

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 30, 2023

Do you need some pizazz for your prose? Cringe humor always occurs in social situations and involves moments like tripping in front of an audience or sending your boss a racy text meant for your spouse. Are you looking for different types of humor to add a little wow! to your writing? Which style of humor will you try first?

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Smart Blogger

MAY 11, 2023

The term “content writing” covers everything that goes into planning, writing, editing, and publishing written digital marketing content. Write Like a Chameleon Much like some chameleon species can change skin color to match their surroundings, great content matches the place it’s published. Persuade with powerful prose.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 29, 2023

So we found that as you get better working with it, it can write more and more of the prose for you, in your voice and style. So maybe you're someone who uses very punchy dialogue or very short declarative sentences, or whatever it is, it will suss that out from what you gave it, and then it will use that as it writes prose.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 9, 2023

This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. She was publishing novels and poetry in the late 1920s, early 30s. Merryn: Thank you, Joanna.

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 5, 2023

You can type directly into the word processor or paste an existing section of text. Using AI, Quillbot article rewriter re-words text without changing the style or meaning. Type or paste your text into the paraphraser and click the snowflake icon. Standard Mode Changes the text but keeps the original meaning.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

That takes a moral toll on you even as it wastes your reader’s time … We’re drowning in text that was slapped together without a focus on meaning and directness.”. It’s prose that makes you go, ‘Huh?’ That is why you need to mix up your text with headings, bullets, lists, tables, graphics, quotes, and links. Social proof.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. I had a bunch of publishing contracts, and they all went very badly. I don't know if I can release this book any better than these publishers, but I know for sure I can release them just as bad. You're kind of one of my gurus at the moment.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 31, 2023

In the intro, Draft2Digital acquires SelfPubBookCovers ; Different types of creative energy [ Self Publishing Advice ]; Twitter becomes X [ The Verge ]; TikTok text posts [ The Verge ]; What AI can help you do in 30 mins [ Ethan Mollick ]; Discovery Writing with ChatGPT by J. That works for them, they publish books.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

So for me, it was only natural to then double down on Aristotle, and read Poetics , and read multiple translations of Poetics , and really understand the text. Rhythm to your prose, just like rhythm in music, is really, really important. This show is also supported by my Patrons. If you have rhythm, it's going to work on the page.

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BKA Content

APRIL 16, 2023

Within the quarterly calendar, set monthly and weekly goals for developing and publishing content. By contrast, slogging through long pages of text with few points of entry can feel like a chore. The Hemingway App is a free online tool to identify and eliminate common writing issues that can bog down your prose.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

In the intro, Findaway Terms of Service ; Why Kickstarter is the Most Creative Way to Launch Your Book [ Self-Publishing Advice ]; Sell direct resources ; Why writing books is a career like no other [ Roz Morris ]; You are not what you used to be [ Johnny B. Teaching is one of those jobs, like publishing, that asks a lot of you.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Every year, English books are published by authors who have learned English as a second or third language, sometimes late in life. (I I myself have managed to have one such book published )—just to prove to you that any fool can do it.). But I can show you how to get there—and point out some of the most dangerous traps along the way.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JULY 15, 2022

But somewhere in the last century, the shouty little mark fell out of fashion in literary prose. It’s more that email, texting, and team apps encourage brevity at the expense of context, and punctuation steps up to communicate tone of voice. First published 1740. (Samuel Richardson,  Pamela , 43). Let’s blame social media.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 7, 2010

We can’t all be Pulitzer-worthy prose writers. But before you click the Publish button, consider what you’re hoping to accomplish by publishing a negative post, which is probably of interest to a very small group of people. Are their pictures always the same width as the text column?

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 28, 2011

Whenever you publish a blog post, you want to send it to your list. Whenever you publish content, you can copy and paste the article from your WordPress dashboard and blast it away. Make sure you’ve selected Full text instead of Summary. The default prose says “Heading 1 Heading 2″ etc.

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Susan Greene

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Send a guest post to your favorite blog and ask if they’ll publish it. When I was 9-years-old, I sent in a poem I wrote about the Archies (don’t judge) and won second prize, $3, making it my first paid writing job and first time being published. Draft an article for your church’s monthly newsletter.

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Words Matter by Wix

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

While the concept doesn't completely bypass skepticism from the masses, it does provide a solution for many people who don’t have the ability to prose on their own. A famous example is the , Nancy Drew series , which was published under one author name but was actually written by a series of ghostwriters. Non-fiction.

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Content Hacker

JANUARY 10, 2024

Key Features of Leading AI Content Creation Tools Dive deep into any top-tier content creation tool today, and you’ll find certain standout features that elevate them above simple text editors or basic writing aids. To make sure you are publishing 100% original content that sounds like you (and not a robot!),

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Smart Blogger

JANUARY 8, 2024

Editor’s Note: A word of caution: No matter how eloquent your words… No matter how powerful your prose… If your introduction doesn’t satisfy search intent, readers will click the “back” button and never return. If readers see too much text when they’re scanning without enough pit stops, they’ll feel overwhelmed.

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Fat Joe

OCTOBER 26, 2022

And because these firms hire experienced writers, the quality of posts you publish will be better, too. Their prose engages audiences with interesting vocabulary, short sentences, and useful information. . If anchor texts don’t flow naturally, you can contact them and ask them to pull down the content or rewrite it. .

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ProBlogger

APRIL 2, 2015

But what if you could ensure that your writing is at least decent every time you hit that publish button? . Emphasise important points by making your text bold, italic or underlining. By closely analyzing an excellent piece of prose, you gain a deep insight to what the writer was thinking and the techniques they used.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 21, 2024

So what the AI does is it was trained on reading, I think somebody said between half a trillion or trillion pieces of text. Are you just writing a prompt and then hitting publish? So we weren't really using it to write prose, we were using it maybe to enhance your descriptions or bring in things that you didn't think about.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

Every published author starts with that burning query. Writing Space Every published author knows the undeniable magic of a personalized writing space. Visualize Your Success : Close your eyes and imagine holding your published book. Step 5: Publishing Your Book Ah, the final frontier. Was it a main character?

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The Write Life

APRIL 1, 2023

If you’ve spent any amount of time in online reading or writing circles, you’ve probably come across posts like this titled ‘X Times Men Didn’t Know How to Write Female Characters,’ each featuring screenshots of tragically sexist prose. My point is, it’s not exactly news that badly-written women are an unfortunate feature in our media.

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By the way, I want to make a case that novelists can learn a lot from screenwriting texts!) Giving feedback is more important here than receiving feedback—you are not likely to publish anything you present in your first year or two of workshop, and you’re probably not even going to publish your thesis, though some writers do!

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 15, 2024

How can you write a book proposal that will make a publisher want to buy your book? Today's show is sponsored by Draft2Digital , self-publishing with support, where you can get free formatting, free distribution to multiple stores, and a host of other benefits. Charles: Well I think good written prose is a conversation.

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