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bionic hand and human hand finger pointing — Recently I grilled ChatGPT about what it would take to be a full-time author and writer in the UK. A lot of what the AI said was common sense. It sounded right although you should probably do your own homework as ChatGPT is very good at being confidently wrong. My […]

Everything you need to know about being a UK author ...

8th May 2023 in Advice tagged Author Platform / blogging / ChatGPT / demographics / guide / hard work / ideas / networking / questions / readers / sell more books / social media / success / technology by Matthew Brown

Monkey at a typewriter — In this blog post, I will show you how to snap out a pretty decent blog post in almost no time at all. Even if you are having an uninspired day. We all have off-days. Days when we feel supremely uninspired. If you are running a blog, you cannot let […]

How to quickly write a pretty decent blog post

12th March 2021 in Blogs and blogging tagged headlines / how to / ideas / posts / Writing by Matthew Brown

Fireworks — As 2018 comes to an end, here are ten possible new year resolutions for authors to make. 1. Set realistic goals for yourself Realistic goals mean that you can sensibly hope to meet them. Meeting goals helps you feel accomplished and can fend off those feelings of imposter syndrome we […]

Ten new year’s resolutions for authors

31st December 2018 in Advice tagged 2019 / goals / ideas / new year by Matthew Brown

thief — A mistake new authors make is to hide what they are doing in fear that someone might steal their ideas. No one is going to steal your ideas – here is why. To illustrate the point, we told Tumblr what we were going to write before we had even written it. […]

Relax, no one is going to steal your ideas

7th September 2017 in Advice tagged beta readers / fears / ideas / sharing by Matthew Brown