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Use All Five Senses To Enrich Your Writing
By BookBaby author Carla King Sight is the most obvious of the senses to invoke when depicting a scene in your written work, but your visual descriptions will benefit when you incorporate your other...
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Radically Improve Your Writing: Three Books That Will Help You Do It
By BookBaby author Micah Solomon Not every great author can give equally great writing advice. The following three books offer some of the best advice to improve your writing, from authors who have...
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Engaging Kids With Reading
By BookBaby author Lauren Lynne Research tells us that reading and writing are deeply intertwingled. Engaging kids with reading develops their writing skills, and vice versa. Kids have amazing story...
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BookBaby Twitter Chat With Lauren Lynne – February 24th
By BookBaby author Lucy Briggs Lauren Lynne, certified teacher and author of the young adult series The Secret Watchers, joins us for a Twitter chat about Engaging Kids With Reading. The chat is on...
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A fun way to build your writing muscles
By BookBaby author Dawn Field Here is an entertaining way to push your writing muscles to the max while lounging on the couch or having fun with family and friends. We know we have to build our muscles...
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How Writers Can Respond To Book Critics
By BookBaby author Jim Dempsey Authors may well be justified in feeling angry and hateful when their hard work is slated by a critic, but it is rarely a good idea to react impulsively on those...
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Focalization: Smart Writers Never Ignore It
By BookBaby author Rose Scott Writing is not just sitting, typing everything on your mind. Before you set out to your work, you ought to know a bit of theory, including the concept of focalization....
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How Long Is Your Favorite Book?
By BookBaby author BookBaby There’s nothing quite like escaping to your favorite book. In just a matter of pages you’re transported to a new world, sympathizing with some characters, despising others....
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Three Things To Do Before You Write A Book
By BookBaby author Jerry Jenkins This excerpt from How to Become an Author: Your Complete Guide spells out some recommended steps to take before you set out to write a book. So you want to be an...
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How To Engage Kids With Reading: #BBchat Recap
By BookBaby author Lucy Briggs Lauren Lynne joined our February #BBchat to talk about how to engage kids with reading and the importance of writing in the classroom. For the February edition of our...
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Blogging for authors
By BookBaby author Joel Friedlander Engagement is what turns casual readers into regular subscribers and subscribers into raving fans. What are you doing to engage readers? One reason I recommend...
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The simple shapes of stories
By BookBaby author Dawn Field According to the inimitable Kurt Vonnegut, the shapes of stories can be mapped and graphed. Have you thought about the shape of the story in your book? Does your book have...
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“Method Writing” Can Help You Create Believable Characters, Write What You...
By BookBaby author Deena Nataf By using the emotions that come to the surface with a daily writing regimen, method writing will help your writing stay authentic, help you stretch your writer’s wings,...
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Six Things You Need To Write A Book
By BookBaby author Dawn Field Don’t underestimate the commitment it will take to realize your story and write a book. Boil your project down to its core components to see your project through to the...
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Sweets To The Sweet – 20 Desserts And The Books That Served Them [Infographic]
By BookBaby author BookBaby There’s so much to appreciate about a good book: the succulent storytelling, the delicious depth of characters, the sweet resolution after bitter conflict, and … dessert!...
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There’s (Almost) No Such Thing as Writer’s Block. If There is, This’ll Cure Ya.
By BookBaby author Micah Solomon Not long ago, the concept of writer’s block didn’t even exist. But once the term was created in 1947 by psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler, those of us who write glommed on...
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Writing Phone Conversations to Forward Your Plot and Draw Your Characters
By BookBaby author Deena Nataf When writing phone conversations, does your one-sided dialogue give insight into the character of one or both participants or the relationship between them? Is the...
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Kid Writing: A Book Publishing Success Story In Two Acts
By BookBaby author BookBaby After winning back her rights, with a digital copy of the book in hand, Isabell Cardonick was ready to explore book publishing on her own. That’s when fate intervened and...
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We all write differently – what kind of writer are you?
By BookBaby author Dawn Field None of us come with manuals, you have to learn by trial and error and grow through experience to discover what kind of writer you are. Discovering who you are and how you...
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Planning and productivity tips for busy writers
By BookBaby author Wendy Strain This weekly scheduling method uses time-blocks to help busy writers manage the various elements of their chaotic lives. I’ve decided to abandon traditional schedules....
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