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  • Upsides and Downsides of Self Publishing.

    You’re done with your book and it’s time to share it to the world. There are certain things you need to know before going into self publishing. The Upsides: 1. You publish at a faster pace: you tend to publish your book faster with self publishing. Traditional publishing processes takes time. 2. Quite Easy: It’s

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  • Getting your Manuscripts Published.

    Getting published is quite a task for every aspiring author. Truth is, 10 percent of the books submitted to publishers are considered for publishing and even less of that percentage actually sells. So publishers are always looking for the next best thing (story) that’ll make them a lot of money. How do you beat the

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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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  • 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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  • A Series of Changes

    Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally … A Series of Changes

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