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Blog: 5 Bad Habits that Will Tank Your Social Media Marketing from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 6 years, 11 months ago
When I think about social media, I start to sound a lot like somebody’s cranky grandma. Back when I was starting out in marketing, we didn’t have all this Twitter […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: Now You See Me from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 6 years, 11 months ago
Four stage, or in fact mostly street, magicians (Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco) are recruited to make a super team called the Four […]
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Expand and integrate your author platform in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 6 years, 11 months ago
If your author platform is spread out across many social media platforms, how can you stop it eating up all of your time and expand it?
Your author platform is, as many readers will be aware, the sum total of all […]
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Blog: Writing Facebook Ads in a Sensitive Topic? Try These 4 ‘Tricks’ that Work … and Get Approved from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 6 years, 11 months ago
If you’ve spent any time in marketing discussion groups, you’ve probably heard how difficult it can be to get Facebook to approve your ads … depending on which ind […]
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Blog: I Read Books: Skylark Three from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 6 years, 11 months ago
Skylark Three is the second in the Skylark series, named after the third Skylark spaceship. (In The Skylark of Space, Seaton and Crane build the Skylark and go on […]
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Blog: 5 Types of Audience Members You Can Safely Ignore from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 6 years, 11 months ago
It takes a certain amount of strength to be an audience-focused content creator. It’s not for the faint of heart. Because when you know your audience is the s […]
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Blog: I Read Stories: First Flight from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 6 years, 11 months ago
First Flight by Mary Robinette KowalThis is cute time travel story. Because you can only travel in your own lifetime (like in quantum leap) to look at a particular […]
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Blog: How to Defeat the Tyranny of Bad Grammar and Worse Sales from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 6 years, 11 months ago
Happy North American patriotism week! With Canada Day and U.S. Independence Day, as well as an abundance of summer sunshine, I think we can all agree that the […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: Anon from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 6 years, 11 months ago
AnonIn the near future everything you see is recorded in the Ether and can be played back. Also vast amounts of meta-data can be seen – too much to read as it h […]
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Blog: Taking Time Off to Honor Independence Day from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 6 years, 11 months ago
July 4 is Independence Day in the United States, so today we’re honoring the holiday. Hope you’re having a great week, and we look forward to reconnecting […]
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Blog: I Read Books: Celtic Myths and Legends from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 6 years, 11 months ago
Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Beresford EllisThis is a collection of stories from the six Celtic language traditions; Irish, Scottish, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and […]
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Blog: Quit Trashing Your Writing Voice with This Rookie Mistake from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 6 years, 11 months ago
I’ve been thinking about writing this one for quite a while, but I’ve just had a lot of other stuff going on. But I can’t stay silent anymore. We need to talk […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: The Dark Tower from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 6 years, 11 months ago
The Dark Tower is a seven volume Steven King Fantasy series that begins as him riffing off Westerns and the Lord of the Rings at the same time, turns into a look […]
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Blog: 3 Ways to Hone the Skill that Can Advance Your Career as a Writer from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 6 years, 11 months ago
There are writers. And then there are professional writers. Over my career as a writer and editor, I’ve noticed one key factor that enables writers to perform t […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Failure is not fatal in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 6 years, 11 months ago
One thing that we messy writers need to learn is this – failure is not fatal.
The key thing, as a writer, is to tell interesting stories. It does not matter if you write a story and most people don’t like it or […]
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Matthew Brown commented on the post,
Use maths to find your minimum price per story, on the groupblog Matthew D Brown 6 years, 11 months ago
When you know, going in, that you are doing something or free – that’s a donation. When you do it to get paid and the rate per hour is pennies – that’s exploitation.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Amused Geek – new Tumblr blog in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author): 6 years, 11 months ago
Most of the time, what I post on Tumblr stays on Tumblr. This time, however, I’m posting it here too.
I would like to introduce you to a new Tumblr blog that I have recently started – Amused Geek. It is part […]
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Blog: A Big Announcement, and Advice to Move You Forward from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 6 years, 11 months ago
Well, our big thing this week was … pretty big. 🙂 If you didn’t catch yesterday’s announcement, our wonderful WordPress design and hosting division, St […]
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Seven secrets of how new books get readers in the group Author Buzz HQ: 6 years, 11 months ago
Your book has just been published and now you face the question of how to get readers. We look at some of the ways authors get readers and how you can do the same. There are no “magic answers” here, just honest […]
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Blog: Going Forward… from
Savidge Reads in the group Book bloggers 6 years, 11 months ago
So now that I am back into the world of blogging, what is the plan? The fact of the matter is that I don’t really have one. I know I want to keep it bookish, I m […]
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Matthew Brown commented on the post,
Use maths to find your minimum price per story, on the groupblog Matthew D Brown 6 years, 11 months ago
Yes, I help manage other blogs (which you know from our Facebook conversations); no, that is not on topic for this post. The topic of the day here is “how much is the least you should be paid for writing?” Which […]
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Matthew Brown commented on the post,
Use maths to find your minimum price per story, on the groupblog Matthew D Brown 6 years, 11 months ago
Alex if you want to offer your work to a particular blog, I’d start my approach on that blog. Any blog that I help run will have one or pages of guidance on submitting content. Most of the blogs I am involved with […]
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Christian Writer wrote a new post on the site Christian Writer 6 years, 11 months ago
All doctrine should be testable doctrine – with this one idea we can create an axiomatic faith.
What is an axiomatic faith?
Axiomatic means something that is self-evidently true. So a faith (or more accurately a […] -
Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
How professional writers embrace necessary mess in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 6 years, 11 months ago
The very best writers are those that have learned to love “necessary mess” as part of their writing process.
First drafts: A necessary mess
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The lie of the so-called “natural writer” in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 6 years, 12 months ago
There is a lie that abounds in certain circles of the so-called “natural writer”. But there is no such thing. It is a lie that exists like a secret false religion, perpetrated by people who should know better. A […]