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Write and Publish: 3 Tips to Create and Sell

1. Start Simple: Create a Small, Easy Product

If you’re entering NaNoWriMo, more power to you. However, if it’s the first time you’ve ever tried to create an info product, start small. Create a 20-page report, or write a short story. Look on your info product creation as an experiment — you’re just trying something new. (This is a psychological trick. Telling yourself it’s just an experiment calms your inner editor.)

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EASY Kindle Publishing in 5 Simple Steps

1. Fiction? Nonfiction? Get an idea, and research it quickly.

Will you write fiction or nonfiction? Choose. Next, brainstorm. I like to brainstorm away from my office. I settle down in a coffee shop, or in a quiet spot in a soft chair in our local library.

You can set a timer if you like. Whether you set a timer or not, aim for 20 ideas within 15 minutes. You’re limiting the time you spend, so that you get it DONE.

Got 20 ideas? Great. Don’t worry if your ideas all seem like junk. You’ve cudgeled your brain, kicking your sleepy subconscious mind awake. Within the next 24 hours, you’ll come up with a new, excellent idea, or you’ll choose one of your junky ideas and will make it work.

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Write Your Novel: Lost Inspiration? Find It

3. Kick the MacGuffin.

A MacGuffin is a plot device: something somebody wants. Or lots of somebodies. In Sophie Kinsella’s I’ve Got Your Number (a very funny novel) there are two MacGuffins: one is her engagement ring, and the other is her mobile phone.

MacGuffins are wonderful, because they’re kickable. They’re real. If you’re new novelist, you may have a lot of people having conversations about nothing in particular. A MacGuffin gets them arguing, and fighting — ideally in lots of different locations.

Jenny Crusie’s novel, Tell Me Lies, begins with:

One hot August Thursday afternoon, Maddie Faraday reached under the front seat of her husband’s Cadillac and pulled out a pair of black lace bikini underpants. They weren’t hers.

A wonderful MacGuffin.

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Write a Novel in a Month: 5 Tips for NaNoWriMo

1. Create a Publication Plan

You’ve decide to go ahead with NaNoWriMo. I have one word for you: plan. You know that I’m big on planning. You may not know that when it comes to fiction, I’m a pantser by nature. So planning fiction doesn’t come easily to me. However, it needs to be done.

Come up with a story-starter, and plan your scenes.

In addition, decide where and how you’ll publish. Think about things like: is this book the start of a series? Could you serialize it? How will it affect your Amazon catalogue? Who will edit it? Who will do the cover? Etc.

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Should You Be Using Social Media Networks?

Once You’ve Decided, Created a Plan for Your Chosen Network

Once you’ve tried several networks, and have completed your profile on the network, create a plan. Decide how often you’ll engage and post there. Then watch what happens. Give it time — at least three months. Social media isn’t a silver bullet for marketing. Sadly.

I fit social media in around the rest of what I do. I visit Twitter once a day, and browse Pinterest when I get a few minutes. I’m a member of several Communities on Google+, and try to drop in there at least once a week.

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Creative Content Secrets: Create Six-Figure Content in 2015

We're living in amazing times. Never before in history has it been possible for one writer, alone, operating from a laptop, with his sofa as his home office, to make not just a six-figure income, but in many cases, a seven figure income.

Most writers however, make much less. This is sad, because they have most of the pieces in place to make $100,000 a year, and more.

I work with writers every day.

Here's what I know. Most of those writers have many of the pieces in place to build an amazing business: great content, a website and/ or a blog, a good work ethic — but it just doesn't happen for them. They create an ebook or three, and when they don't sell a million copies within two weeks, they think that there's something wrong with them.

There isn't. They just don't have a sales funnel. It's as if they have all the pieces for a car engine lying on their garage floor, and can't fit those pieces into their Alpha Romeo 4C.

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Ebooks Are Hot: Free Report

Free report: “Ebooks are Hot, and You Can Write Them”

If you’re a new writer, download our free report: “Ebooks are Hot, and You Can Write Them”.

You’ll discover hot ideas for ebooks in 2015, and how to write what sells.

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Free Content: New Writing Genii's Library

Today, 30 MILLION pieces of content flow onto the Web, each and every day. That’s a LOT of content. You, I, and every other writer has to compete with that for attention. As we said in Professional Writing Going Forward to 2015, professional writing is changing. If you want to make a great income from your writing, you need to become much more entrepreneurial.

The Free Content Library helps new writers to get up to speed on the world of writing as it is in 2014, and in 2015 and beyond. Eventually, we’ll have many ebooks in the library for you to download, and put to use. You can download the first two ebooks now. My hope is that they’ll arm you to develop a real writing business.

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Writing Journal 72: Easy Time Management Tips

We’ve all got the same 24 hours in our day. In the time you have for writing, you need to be as efficient as possible. Here are three easy tips.

1. Write it DOWN!

You’re a writer, so write everything down. At first blush, what seems like a silly aside can trigger powerful ideas for your novel, your Web writing project, or an exciting copywriting concept.

Writers think on paper. It has to be that way, because you can only keep a limited amount of information in your mind at any one time.

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Writing Journal 71: Reading On The Go

Reading on go: keep up with yourself, and everyone else

I wrote about social media writing on my freelance blog.

Mostly, I read on my iPad. I use Flipboard, and if I find something I want to post to social media, I can do it right away. Alternatively, I can save an item to Pocket, and read it and share it later.

If I’m having lunch at my computer (yep, bad habit), I read social media on my iPad. It’s relaxing. Later, in Pocket on my Mac, I can tag items, send them to any social media network I choose, or I can send articles to Evernote. Of course, I can just delete an article too.

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Writing Journal 69: Favorite Content Creation Tools

I create a lot of content, of many different types, every day. So I tend to jump on any tool which might make creation easier. Your mileage will vary. I test and discard lots of tools, but that’s OK. Creating content consistently is a real challenge, so any tool which helps with that is a worthwhile investment.

Currently, my favorite tools include…

Evernote. Always. It’s always open, and I do a lot of writing in Evernote. It means I can write on my phone or tablet, and add ideas as they come to me.

Scrivener. Invaluable. Don’t know where I’d be without it.

Ember. (Mac) A recent acquisition. For research, as well as to check what assets have been created, and need to be created for a project.

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Social Media Writer: 5 Tips to Get Social

1. Plan Your Social Media Promotion While You’re Writing (Remember to Charge for It, If You’re Writing for Clients)

Today, if you want to make money writing, you need to write more. And you need to write well.

When you’re working on a project, think about how you could promote it on social media. No, you can’t just tweet: buy my book! Well, you could. Then later, you can complain that social media is useless.

Grab little quotables from the text, and save them on a spreadsheet. You’ll need them later. Gather some images you can use in your social media campaign for the content: snap photos, or source images from the Web. I shouldn’t need to say this, but: assume that ALL images on the Web are under copyright. The only images you can find and safely use on the Web, are the ones clearly marked “Creative Commons.” Even then, read the restrictions on how you can use each image.

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Writing Journal 67: (Mac People) Hello, Yosemite

If you’re a Mac person, Yosemite is here

Yosemite, the new Mac OS X is here. When it was announced yesterday, I promised myself that I’d wait a month before updating. Updating is always risky; if your most-used programs haven’t been upgraded to work with the new OS, you’re stuck.

“Yosemite announced, wait a month before upgrading” — that’s what I wrote in my bullet journal. Then I looked at the features, and noticed Handoff. I could start creating a presentation, and could finish it on my iPad.

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Writing Journal 66: Gorgeous Graphics for Your Blog

Gorgeous graphics for your blog

I’m no artist. If you’re like me, and nevertheless want to create graphics for your Kindle book covers, your blog, and your website, I’m sure you know all about Canva. Here’s what’s new: Canva for your iPad.

Here’s Canva’s blog post announcing the new app. I love the idea of creating images for social media, right on your iPad. No more excuses, you can create images for Twitter and Facebook while you’re sitting on your sofa, watching a movie.

I haven’t downloaded the app yet; however, I’ll make time to do it on the weekend.

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