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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author
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I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com
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Promote Your Book by Guest Blogging
A great way to promote your book is by guest blogging, which is writing, for free, content that appears on another person’s blog. It’s sort of like being a guest host of a television program.M…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Best outcome: Ensure vs. Assure vs. Insure
If there’s one thing for certain, and let me dispel any doubts you may have about it – in fact, I’d even take out a policy knowing I’d get paid out – it’s that someone will mix up these three words…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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How to Create Your Story's Characters #writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872404
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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A negative view of your writing abilities never will lead to a positive manuscript.
When writing, do you ever find yourself asking, “What if nobody likes my book?”If you do, stop it! That’s really saying, “What if I don’t like my book?”After all, if you truly felt passionate not j…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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7 Simple Amazon.com Sales Tips for Indie Authors
• Market your book via Amazon.com pageThe Amazon.com page that sells your book may perhaps be the most important item in your entire marketing effort. All of your press releases, news articles, blo…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Five Great Quotations about Theme
“If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the l…
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How to Build Your Story's Setting #writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872390
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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4 Great Tips to Beating Writer’s Block
• Coming up with an opening line• Change the world• Take your story forward• Go down another road
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November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Trademark registration is overkill for new writers
Authors who’ve written a series of books or who’ve created a publishing house (also known as an imprint) to publish their books sometimes purchase trademark protection in an effort to protect thems…
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November 26, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Make Sure the First Page of Your Story is the Best it Can Be #author #indieauthor #bravewrite #amwriting #writingcommunity www.amazon.com/Write-Storys-F...
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Maintain sense of tension through pace
As developing your story, maintaining a sense of tension is vital. Without dramatic tension – a feeling of uncertainty in the reader about how the main character will solve (or even if he will…
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November 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Draw Attention to Book Via Article Directories
One way to draw attention to your book is by writing an article related to it, then getting it published. Fortunately, you don’t have to play the freelancer game to get the article published as you…
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November 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Writing Prompt: Expand on a nursery rhyme
Suffering from writer’s block or need to add some spunk to your writing? The problem may be that you need to change up your routine. To that end, try this tip: Treat a nursery rhyme such as “J…
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5 Ways to Make Your Writing More Descriptive
• Use sensory details rather than internalized ones One way to make your writing more vivid is to use sensory details rather than internalized ones. Sensory details (blue, sour, loud, smooth) are s…
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November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Six great formulas for writing a nonfiction title
To successfully market a nonfiction book, you’ll want a powerful title that grabs the reader. Unlike fiction, however, the nonfiction book not only has to catch the readers’ attention but give…
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November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Another great article on scams targeting authors. Though it's Australia-focused, the scams are aimed at author worldwide.
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A global publishing scam assisted by AI has targeted Australia. Here are 5 tips to avoid scammers
Aspiring authors in Australia are among those who have been scammed by a network of publishing houses using cloned websites and AI tools.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Five Great Quotations about ‘Why Write?’
“We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.” – Lailah Gifty Akita“To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy…it is an invitati…
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November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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How to Plot Your Story: Quick, Easy to Understand, Practical Tips #writingtip #writingtips #writingguide #amwriting #writingcommunity www.amazon.com/dp/194887220X
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Delete nulls from your novel, short story
Sometimes the only purpose of a story’s sentence is to say that nothing happened. Such sentences are called “nulls”. An example would be the sentence “He said nothing.” Fortunately, nulls are easy …
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November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Offer your readers a photo gallery page
If you’re serious about receiving media attention – either from newspapers and magazines or from bloggers and online journals – you’ll want to have a photo gallery page on your website. After …
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November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Storytelling 101 Quick Read Series: Guidebooks for Writing, Self-publishing, and Promoting Your Book #writerscommunity #author #indieauthor #amwriting #writingcommunity www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH5RXDK8
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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5 Tips for the Writing Process
• Follow a “process” when writing your story• The “thinking step” when writing your book• Drafting: Write on paper or type on computer? • Draft rarely perfect after first go…
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