When Good Words Go Oh So Very Wrong

Oh No!

Friday Writing Amusement by Karen Daniels Words hold great power. As a blogger – writer you can choose to use words for good or evil. Just make sure that you write what you mean, and mean what you write. Which for goodness sakes, requires you to reread what you write before setting it free. Here [...]

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Brighten Your Future by Pushing for Creative Failure

Brighten Your Life

by Karen Daniels Comfort. We love it. Those warm slippers, a worn roomy t-shirt, and creativity projects like writing  “How to XXY in 3 Steps” that you’ve done so many times you can write them with your eyes shut.  In fact, you most likely have numerous creative things you’ve done enough times that you can [...]

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7 Inspirational Secrets for Super Successful Blogging

Shh, Secrets!

by Karen Daniels My personal summer break from blogging is coming an end and I wanted to kick off from those sumptuous summer barbeques and inspirational perfect hamburgers (or from those wondrous winter refreshments if you happen to be in a part of the world which isn’t   currently baking in heat) with some inspirational [...]

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Awesome Free Book Marketing Spreadsheet

Karen

Seth Godin sent out a link for his Domino Project readers which contains an amazingly comprehensive spreadsheet created by Jenny Blake for self-published authors. You can get it in Google Docs Here or as an Excel Spreadsheet Here. Book Promotion Action Items According to Jenny, the spreadsheet covers everything from Website development to book tour [...]

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Twitter Tips and Talk for Bloggers and Authors

Twitter Image

by Karen Daniels Social media, including tools such as Twitter, can be an awesome way to support your blog, posts, and written products. Twitter is also a great way to enhance your reputation as an author or blogger, to help gain authority in a particular area, to gain new followers, and boost recognition of your [...]

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How to Waste Words to Develop Your Signature Writing Strengths

Waste!

by Karen Daniels Green living, green design, green green green. Green is good, right? Well, when it comes to writing; no. No? Yes, no. There was a time, in the not too distant past, when writing was almost always, in and of itself, a decidedly non-green act. This is because it involved the use of [...]

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5 Steps to Set Your Writing Free

by Karen Daniels Ah, those lovely days gone by where you could be a sheep, put in your time, and know your retirement  would take care of you. Anonymity was good, fitting in, also good. Well, no more, my writing friends. We live in a new time, and whether your old, young, or in between, [...]

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Quick Down and Dirty Kindle Publishing Tips

Kindle

by Karen Daniels The last few weeks of my life have been consumed with converting my published print books to Kindle. I thought I’d save you some time and effort by sharing with you an overview of how to do this. There are a lot of detailed sites out there to take you through specific [...]

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You Think, Therefore You Create

aha!

by Karen Daniels Often people view creativity as the production of something physical when before there was “nothing.” But creativity is more than that. It’s also about the way you think, your ideas, how your approach your life. Certainly when it comes to creativity sometimes there is a physical end product – a blog article, [...]

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What to do when You Hit the Dreaded Blogging Bubble

Will Blog for Food

by Karen Daniels Are you feeling trapped and uninspired by your blog? Every blogger hits rock bottom, the occasional black space where you feel like you’re going nowhere and the idea of giving up is so strong that your brain begins to marinate in the thought of quitting. The bubble may hit you after only [...]

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