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  • 12 foundation tips for beginner writers

    Are you an aspiring author or a beginner writer? Here are a few writing basics and tips that helps. 1. Quality: Make sure your idea is a good one. An idea that sells. If it’s boring while you’re it, there’s 80 percent chance it’ll bore your readers 2. Establish your writing space and assemble your

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  • 5 things you should know about being a published author.

    As a published author what can you expect from publishing your book. From a simple document saved on your laptop to the shelves of your local bookshops, what happens later on. 1. It’ll take a while to earn passive income: Best selling authors didn’t quit their day jobs right away. Tom Clancy sold insurance while

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  • 6 smart ways to promote yourself as a writer without being a jerk.

    Do you write books, articles or have a blog? To monetize your skills, you need to learn how to promote your work. Even traditionally published authors handle some part of their book promotions themselves. Unless you are that famous. 1. Show your work: Have you read the book ? Show your Work by Austin Kleon

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  • The one still living – short story

    How I survived. Choices. How I thrive, my willingness to live. Living everyday like death will come knocking on my door by the weekend. I suffered through the nights of toil, endured the pain of rejections.But I still save my breath for the breaking of the dawn. Morning comes, then it fades right back into

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  • Friendship Experience – short story

    Miriam had asked Tessie out for an evening spicy chicken and cool dinks. Turns out Miriam’s date came with a friend. It wasn’t Tessie’s plan to leave her small, cozy and anything but tidy space for a little party. Till after a week … no a month. There’s plenty of books to be read and

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  • Several shades of betrayal- a short story

    Treachery is always intentional. Sometimes, unconsciously executed. Jack told Joe about his sickness. The moment things went south between them, Joe made jest out of the story and spilled the beans. It wasn’t Jack’s secret to tell. Moses and Michael agreed to split the profit they’d make from shoes business. The idea was Michael’s. Moses

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  • 6 things no one tells you about being a writer.

    Writing is difficult. To be clear, the hardest part of writing is the actual writing. Of course it’s just my opinion feel free to think otherwise 😌 There are things I didn’t know about writing until I started; 1. Time : writing takes plenty of time. When I started writing in 2015, I expected to

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  • Revising Published Work

    Hey, SE Readers. Joan with you today. This post is one I never thought I’d write because it involves an undertaking that I never saw myself doing. … Revising Published Work

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  • Nobody’s home

    I just want you to untangle me out of your life, As I wasn’t the one who was hurting all those times. I remember seeing you in pain too, Was I not … Nobody’s home

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