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Big disruption hit book publishing before AI showed up

The Idea Logical Company

Publishers Weekly recently hosted a stimulating and smart online session about AI and publishing , thanks to the organizing and moderating skills of Peter Brantley and Thad McIlroy. But nobody has (yet) said publicly “publishing new titles is getting very hard” or “we’re going to publish a lot fewer new books.”

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10 Best Creative Writing Courses in India

Write Freelance

Finding and enrolling in the best creative writing courses in India has been more difficult than I thought. At least it used to be, seven years ago when I had just dived into freelance writing. I wanted to hone my skills and practice fiction writing too, which is when I started looking for creative writing courses online.

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An Open Letter to Anyone Who Thinks Their Writing Isn’t Good Enough

Enchanting Marketing

Do you feel uncertain about your own writing? Most of us are unhappy about our writing. We despair at the gap between how we write and how we’d like to write. Mastering writing may feel like climbing a huge mountain You start your climb with a positive mind and full of energy. We procrastinate. What to do?

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I wrote and published a Kindle book in one weekend, with GPT-4.

Nick Ursborne

This time I asked GPT-4 to write me a 40-page Kindle book I could publish on Amazon. Homework #5 is to write a blog post on this exact topic. So I asked GPT-4 to write me an introduction. The book was published on Sunday evening. The post I wrote and published a Kindle book in one weekend, with GPT-4.

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Writing Tips From a College Professor

Kayleigh Moore

Laura is currently a member of the English faculty at Spoon River College where she teaches creative writing, composition, and literature courses. She has had work published in Soft Skull's Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry and Ninth Letter, among others, and currently has work in Alluvian.

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The Right Way to Ask a Published Writer for Publishing Advice

Jane Friedman

A mutual friend urged me to approach this writer with a question about how to publish the book I was working on. So, I walked up to him and asked if he had any pointers to offer on the publishing journey. All these years later, having published two books and many articles, I still cringe at the memory.

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15 Best Content Writing Tools in 2023

Write Freelance

There was a time when all writers needed was a pen and paper to write their thoughts. But in the modern day, content writers who write for digital media need an arsenal of tools under their wing. After all, being a freelance content writer isn’t just about writing sentences that seem interesting to read.

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