How to Kill a Word
I came across this great slideshow by Patrick McLean on Slideshare (many thanks to Laura for the tip!) As a big part of writing and, particularly, editing is removing redundant words, I thought you'd enjoy it as much as I did! [slideshare...
What Are Your Anxiety Dreams Telling You?
As you may recall, much of my writing inspiration comes from my dreams and I have often written about dreams in my blog. I recently came across an interesting article on Casper about so-called “quarantine dreams” or “coronavirus dreams.” These are anxiety-ridden...
Happy St. Fanourios’ Day
Today, Greece is celebrating St. Fanourios' Day. Because of a wordplay on the Saint's name, whose name roughly translates into "Finder," people pray to him when they need help with finding something. Now, when I say "finding," this can be interpreted either quite...
7 Ways to Boost Your Author Brand
The inspiration (and Infographic) for this post came from Resume Now, which has an article about branding yourself. While they are focusing on job applications, what they say is remarkably useful for those building an author brand, too. I am summarizing below, but I...
Infographic: Free Online Tools to Organize Your Writing
Online Schools Report has created a guide to help college students organize their studies. It includes a bunch of organizational apps, note-taking apps, brainstorming apps, and productivity apps to cover each aspect of studying. However, upon reading it, I realized...
The Best Way to Promote Your Books
What is the best way to promote your books? The answer comes from an interesting article on GrowSurf.com that explained the power of referral marketing. According to the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA), there are more than 2.4 billion brand-related...
Creepy Book Inspiration from the Middle East
This is a guest post by David Collins. David is a marketing specialist and essay writer from Manchester, UK. He loves to share his ideas and knowledge about marketing, writing, and blogging with his followers through his blog. Currently, he is working as a marketer at...
The Highs and Lows of Writing Books
This is a guest post by Arslan Hassan. Arslan is an electrical engineer with a passion for writing, designing, and anything tech-related. His educational background in the technical field has given him the edge to write on many topics. He occasionally writes blog...
Kali Panagia
Today, Greece celebrates the Dormition of the Virgin Mary. This is a big deal: it's the third-greatest celebration in Greece, right after Christmas and Easter. And I've heard plenty of people wish each other, "Kali Panagia" - loosely translated to "happy Virgin Mary...
News-Writing Tips
This is a guest post by Alison Guest. Alison works with Writing Help to offer professional essay editor services and custom writing services at highly competitive prices. News-writing tips The number of independent news outlets is rapidly growing. Their popularity is...
Flame-Bladed Swords
Fantasy often sports unusual weapons like the flame-bladed sword: But how historically accurate are they? Were these actually ever used in battle? And if so, why? Murphy Barrett has the answer in Quora! Why a Flamberge? A flame-bladed sword - aka flamberge - would...
Next Up: a Copywriting Book
You may remember Rayne Hall from my previous mentions of her and her work on my blog. Rayne is a trained publishing manager with thirty years in the publishing industry and over fifty books published. You have probably bought some book of her celebrated Writer's Craft...