1976write: Archive

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Writing

The 10 Top Creativelive Courses for Writers

Why You Should Consider Ghostwriting

Self-Care for Writers

How to Writer Powerful Headlines

6 Reasons Why "Just Write" is the Best Advice for Writers

6 Useful Writing Prompts to Expand Your Creativity

Why Writers Need to Read

11 Ways to Encourage a Writer

Why You Should Write Regularly

Why It's Good to Take a Breather from Writing

20 Writing Do's and Don'ts

How to Deal With Criticism as a Writer

A Writer's Guide to the Perfect Workspace

How to Write 2000 Words a Day

How to Recognize Your Writing Style

What Sort of Writer Are You?

15 Ideas to Make Your Writing More Clear

14 Ideas to Stay Focused When You Write

How to Improve Your Skills as a Non-Fiction Writer

12 Glaring Signs You're a Writer at Heart

5 Best Substack Newsletters on Writing

10 Things That Will Keep You Cool When You Write

Helen Bolam Recommends 14 Books to Need to Read

Why You Need a Writing Coach

How Can I Be a Better Writer: 6 Books That Will Help You Write Well

Writing Clearly

What is Clear Writing and How Can It Help You Be a Better Writer

How to Reach Your Audience When You Write

How to Plan Your Writing

How to Research Your Writing to Give t Substance

How Much is Enough When You Write?

How to Give Your Writing Structure and Cohesion

How to Create Great Titles for Your Writing

Writing in Plain Language

How to Write Clear Sentences

How to Write Well-Ordered Paragraphs

Reaching Your Reader's Through Your Writing

7 Writing Snares to Look Out For

How to Use Metaphors Properly in Writing

Building Your Readers Knowledge Base

Understanding Your Audience With the Four Communication Styles

Empathising With the Reader

Changing Your Reader's Mind

How to Make Your Message Sticky (So Your Audience Will Always Remember It)

What You Need to Know About UX Writing (Writing for the User)

Making Your Writing More Appealing With Design and Visual Formats

How to Beat the Blank Page and "Just Write"

How to Clean Up Your Writing

Getting Feedback on Your Writing to See What's Effective

Writing Inspiration

How to Prepare Yourself as a Writer

How to Accept Your Writing Anxiety, and Spend Time on the Craft

Why All Writers Should Set Goals

How to Overcome Your Writing Fear With Mind Games

Find Your Writing Hero

How to Make Time to Write When You Have a Busy Life

How to Make 2000 Words a Day a Habit

62 Motivational Tips to Get You Writing

How Writers Can Vanquish Negativity

Become a Better Writer With These 20 Writing Exercises

How to Find Like-Minded Writers

How to Conquer Writers Block

How to Make a Bad Writing Day Really Good

How to Write When Life Takes Over

Why and How to Change Up Your Writing Routine

You Don't Need Anyone's Permission to be a Writer

Practical Strategies to Capture Thoughts and Ideas for Writers

7 Tips for Nonfiction Writers

How to Optimise Your Writing Time

Healthy Writer

Keeping Your Writing Life Healthy

Burnout, Stress and Everything Else, Why Writing Isn't a Walk in the Park

Why You Don't Have to be a Desk Bound Writer

Dealing with RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) as a Writer

Managing Chronic Pain as a Writer

The Inactive Writer and Sedentary Lifestyle

The Importance of a Good Night's Sleep for Writers

The Headache of Working on a Screen as a Writer

The Solitary Business of Writing

Writer Weight Gain, and What To Do About It

Why Cutting Down on Refined Sugar Will Make You a Better Writer

Why a Healthy Gut Will Make You a Happy Writer

9 Things You Can Do to be a Healthier Writer

55 Changes You Can Make to Improve Your Health as a Writer

Understanding Your Mood and Mental Health as a Writer

Why Writing Doesn't Have to Feel Like Your Riding a Roller Coaster

The Benefits of Walking for Writers

How to Better Yourself and Live a Happy, Healthy Writing Life

Ghostwriting

Why You Should Consider Ghostwriting

Ghostwriting an Introduction

What Does a Ghostwriter Really Do?

Finding Ghostwriting Clients

Ghostwriting: Memoirs, Personal Histories, Biographies and Autobiographies

How to Launch Your Ghostwriting Career and Sell Your Ghostwriting Skills

What You Need to Know About the Ethics of Ghostwriting

Why On Earth Would Anyone Want to be a Ghostwriter?

What to Charge for Your Ghostwriting Services

The Mechanics of a Ghostwriting Contract

Things You Need to Become a Successful Ghostwriter

What Kind of Client Hires a Ghostwriter?

How to Ghostwrite a Book for Your Client

The Positives and Negatives vs. Producing Your Own Work

16 Resources and Tools for Ghostwriters

How to Have Better Communication With Your Ghostwriting Clients

How Ghostwriters Get Acknowledged for Their Writing

Managing Your Anonymity as a Ghostwriter

How to Balance Ghostwriting With Your Own Writing

How to Manage Your Time as a Ghostwriter

How to Tackle a Ghostwriting Job

How to Anticipate and Deal With Problems on a Ghostwriting Job

Growing Your Ghostwriting Business

What Clients Expect from a Ghostwriter

Blogging

The Definitive Guide to Writing a Blog Post

How to Generate Blog Post Ideas

How to Make Your Blogger Blog Look and Feel Like a Website

Blog Comments Should You Deactivate Them?

Why Simplicity is the Key to a Successful Blog

10 Things Readers Really Don't Like About Your Blog

How to Keep Your Blog Fresh, and Handle Old Content

Why You Should Use Blogger as Your Writing Platform

8 Best Writing Blogs for Newbie Writers

6 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Give Up On your Blog

10 Ways Your Blog is Alienating Your Readers

How to Write Uniquely Crafted Blog Posts

Everything They Don't Tell You About Blog Migration, and Is It Really Worth It?

5 Blogs Every Writer Should Be Reading

Why There's No "One Size Fits All" to Blogging Success

Making Money Writing

10 Steps to Make Money With Amazon Associates

Self-Publishing an Ebook, What You Need to Know

Why You Should Think About Being an Indie Author

Knowing Your Publishing Options: Traditional Publishing

Know Your Income Options After You've Published a Book

Self-Publishing a Print Book, What You Need to Know

Self-Publishing an Audiobook, What You Need to Know

How to Really Profit from Your Books

Driving Your Writing Business With Content Marketing

Offering Consulting or Coaching Services as a Writer

Make Money from Affiliate Sales as a Writer

Selling Your Books and Other Products as a Writer

Making Money From Writing Sponsored Blog Posts as a Writer

Freelance Writing, What You Need to Know

How to Use the 1% Rule and Make Money Writing Books on Kindle

Publishing

The Evolution of the Book Publishing

Know Your Publishing Options: Traditional Publishing

Know Your Income Options After You've Published a Book

What is an ISBN and Why Do I Need it For My Book?

Which is Best Traditional or Self-Publishing

Self-Publishing

Self-Publishing an Ebook, What You Need to Know

Why You Should Think About Becoming an Indie Author

Self-Publishing: What You Need to Know About DRM

Know Your Income Options After You've Published a Book

The Simple Guide to Self-Publishing

5 Book Marketing Tips for Self-Published Authors

8 Self-Publishing Companies for Authors

7 Reasons Why You Should Give Your Ebook Away for Free

How to Select the Right Price for Your Book

How to Design a Book Cover on Fotor

11 Steps to Self-Publish a Book

How to Write, Publish and Sell a Book

How to Publish a Book on Kindle

Most Popular Places to Sell Your Ebook Online

How to Write an Awesome Author Bio

How to Start Your Author Platform from Scratch

Write an Ebook in 30 Days and With This Guide

How to Create a Book on Kindle Create

A Simple Guide to Upload Your Book to KDP for Publishing

Author Branding

Author Brand Archetypes - Which One Suits You?

How to Select the Right Author Brand Archetype

Establishing Your Brand's Values

How to Define Your Author Persona

Marking Out Your Brand Purpose

How to Articulate Your Writing Voice

Describing What You Write About to Friends and Family

Standing Out in a Crowded Market Place as an Author

Choosing Your Author Brand Colour

Dressing for Success as an Author

Tips and Tools to Strengthen Your Author Brand

Why Authors are Using Cause Marketing to Build Brand Trust

Building Your Author Brand With Social Media

Using Your Brand to Grow Your Blog

Designing Your Website for Your Author Brand

Should I Use an Author Pen Name?

The Importance of Book Cover Branding

Book Marketing

Quick Ideas to Market Your Book

How to Create an Eye-Catching Book Cover on a Shoestring Budget

Best Book Promotion Sites to Spend Your Budget Wisely

The Importance of Marketing for Writers

How Writers Can Gain a Marketing Mindset

How to Market Your Book Using Contrasting Ideas

Is There a Right Time to Start Marketing Your Book?

The Essentials for Book Marketing Success

What You Need to Know About Book Sales Description

Selecting the Correct Keywords and Categories for Your Book

Why You Need an Amazon Author Page

Why the First Few Pages of Your Book are so Important

Exclusivity, Is It Worth It For Self-Published Authors?

Marketing Your Book Using Free Promotions and Pricing

How Book Bundles and Box Sets Will Help Market Your Books

Why Writing a Series of Books is a Smart Thing to Do

The Value of Book Reviews and How to Get Them

What You Need to Know About Paid Email Blasts

How to Use "Free" to Bring in New Customers

Mastering Amazon's Algorithms to Sell More Books

Do I Need an Author Platform?

Using Your Author Brand to Market Your Book

The Power of Integrity, Authenticity and Generosity When Marketing Your Books

What You Need to Know About CPC and CPM Bidding When Advertising Your Book

Why Continuous Advertising is the Best Way to Sell Your Books

What Does it Take to be an Amazon Best Seller

Finding a Target Market for Your Books on BookBub

Creating a BookBub Ad Campaign

A Brief History of Book Publishing and Marketing

Why Marketing is so Important

How Book Reviews and Accolades Can Market Your Book

Why You Don't Need Social Media if You're an Author

Social Media

The Other Side of Social Media

Alternate Social Media Sites for Writers

How to Set Up an Effective Social Media Profile

Why Social Media is Essential for Writers

How to Promote Your Content the Easy Way on Social Media

Make Your Mark on Social Media With These 8 Points

How to Extinguish Your Competition on Social Media With Fotor

Simple Ideas for Writers to Post on Social Media

How to Stay Safe on Social Networking Sites

6 Useful Things to Know About Social Media

Make Your Mark on Social Media With These 8 Points

28 Tips to Gain More Traffic from LinkedIn

22 Proven Tips to Gain Epic Traffic on Pinterest

10 Tips for Writers Who Use Social Media

How to Sharpen Your Copywriting Skills

Copywriting, What's it all About?

Copywriting: Understanding the Product You're Writing About

Copywriting: How to Recognise Your Reader

Grammar and Punctuation

Why is Grammar So Important

How to Polish Your Punctuation

How to Construct a Really Good Sentence

What You Need to Know About Grammar

Homophones: The Words that Puzzle Everybody

What You Need to Know About Nouns, Gerunds and Verbs

What You Need to Know About Verb Tenses and Forms

Action and Linking Verbs, Clauses and Phrases

What You Need to Know About Abbreviations

How Words Enrich Our Lives

How to Construct a Really Good Sentence

How to Improve Your Writing Vocabulary

Understanding Infinitives

A Sequence of Words: Constructing a Sentence

Sentence Linking: Essential Strategies: To Solve Your Sentence Problems

Using Punctuation in Sentence Combinations

How to Fine Tune a Sentence

Making Improvements to a Sentence at Word Level (Part 1)

Making Improvements to a Sentence at Word Level (Part 2)

What You Need to Know About the Function of Syntax in Sentences

18 Tips on Writing Better Sentences

Is There a Formula to Writing a Good Sentence

Diction in Sentences

What is a Figure of Speech? And How to Use It in a Sentence

Why Grammar Matters in Everyday Life

Proofreading and Editing

The Essential Proofreading and Editing Guide

What You Need to Know About Editing a Book

Proofreading Essentials

8 Tips to Sharpen Your Editing Skills

How Editors Charge for Their Work

Editing and Proofreading Checklist for Writers

Why Writers Should Use Style Sheets When They Edit

Everything You Need to Know About Working With an Editor

What Writers Need to Know About Indexing a Book

Useful Online Resources for Writers

Copyediting: How to Improve Your Readability as a Writer

Best Tools for Copyeditors and Writers

How to Improve Your Focus When You Copyedit

Concentration and Stamina, the Key to Copy Editing

Understanding the Different Levels of Editing

What You Need to Know About Self-Editing

The Skills Required to Copyedit and Proofread

Why Your Eyes Are the Best Spell Checker

8 Simple Proofreading Tips for Writers

The Importance of a Fresh Set of Eyes on Your Work

Grammar Hiccups to Avoid

What Can a Proofreader Do For Me?

Affiliate Marketing

The Writers Guide to Affiliate Marketing

4 Tips to Convert Blog Traffic into Affiliate Sales

10 Steps to Make Money With Amazon Associates

Make Money From Affiliate Sales as a Writer

The Reality of Affiliate Marketing

Where It All Started: A History of Affiliate Marketing

How to Create an Income With Your Author or Writing Blog

A Comprehensive Look at Affiliate Networks

Payout Programs for Affiliate Marketers

Building Traffic to Your Blog for Affiliate Sales

Simple Tips to Make Money With Affiliate Marketing

How to Run Your Affiliate Business as a Writer

How to Make Your Affiliate Links More Visible

Common Errors Affiliate Marketers Make

Why Affiliate Marketing is Profitable For All Businesses

Difficulties Involved With Affiliate Marketing

Ideas to Drive Traffic to Your Website and Affiliate Links

How to Layout Your Website for Affiliate Marketing

How to Market Your Affiliate Links

How to Really Make Money With Your Affiliate Links

Simple Tips for Successful Affiliate Marketing

Email Marketing

The Email Marketing Guide

Email Marketing Tips for Writers

10 Email Ideas to Keep Your Subscribers Interested

SEO

The Essential Guide to SEO for Writers

6 Tips to Boost Your SEO Using Social Media

How to Fix Common SEO Problems

28 Places to Share Your Blog Posts After Posting

19 Ways to Grow Your Blog Traffic

99 Ways to Promote Your Blog

What Writers Need to Know About SEO

What Writers Need to Know About Google Search

The Inner Workings of Google Search, Everything You Need to Know

Are Keywords Still Valuable for SEO?

Why Your Website Needs Good On-Page SEO to be Successful

Mastering Link Building and Establishing Your Authority Online

How to Use Social Media to Optimise Your Search Results

All You Need to Know About Website Analytics

Identifying and Repairing Common SEO Problems

How to Master SEO Writing

Rich Snippets What You Need to Know and How They Help SEO

The Most Effective SEO Tools

A Brief History of Google Algorithm Updates and What To Do If Your Ranking Drops

Quick SEO Checklist

How to Manage Your SEO Reputation

Why Quality Matters More Than Quantity When It Comes to Blog Traffic

Essential SEO Glossary

Writing Tools

Stretch Your Writing Muscles With These Exercises

Writing Terms

The Best Reference Guides for Writers

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