“My memoir is 270,000 words long.” I heard these words during a breakout session I led at a local writers conference. An editor friend of mine, Shayla Eaton with Curiouser Editing, was sitting in on the breakout. We gave each other knowing glances, and because I didn’t want to break this poor memoirist’s literary heart, […]
Continue readingBig Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert Best quote: “Let me list for you some of the many ways in which you might be afraid to live a more creative life: You’re afraid you have no talent. You’re afraid you’ll be rejected or criticized or ridiculed or misunderstood or—worst of all—ignored. You’re afraid […]
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On September 3, actor Simu Liu will debut as the first Chinese Marvel hero Shang-Chi in Shang-Chi: The Legend of the Ten Rings. From the trailers we know that Shang-Chi’s backstory involves being raised within the assassin’s guild the Ten Rings before absconding at some point to live a normal life in San Francisco’s Chinatown. […]
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You want to self-publish your book, but budgeting for the process is more challenging than it looks. The numbers you hear from experts regarding the costs of self-publishing are all over the board. Do authors really manage to release quality books without paying for professional editing, design, marketing and other services? Or will you have […]
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You might have noticed that The Write Life has been on a content break for the last couple months. In mid-June, The Write Life joined the Selfpublishing.com platform of sites and resources dedicated to writing, publishing, freelance, marketing, and more. The vision for the Selfpublishing.com platform began back in 2015 when Chandler Bolt founded Self-Publishing […]
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TL;DR: As of Aug. 13, get a lifetime subscription to the Nichesss AI Copywriter for only $59.99 — a 93% discount. While artificial intelligence was once a terrifying concept only seen in movies, it’s now a modern solution to all sorts of problems. Take business communications, for example. Rather than spending the limited time you […]
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Parentheses, like the em dash and ellipses, is a piece of punctuation that’s often overused in writing. In some instances, parentheses can be useful, but more often than not, they’re unnecessary and may even act as a distraction, weakening your writing. In this guide to parentheses, we explain what parentheses are, the difference between parentheses […]
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Writing is awesome. And getting paid for writing? Well, that’s the dream. Of course, making it happen isn’t always easy. Finding freelance writing jobs can be challenging even for experienced writers, and breaking into the business is downright difficult. One of the biggest obstacles for writers attempting to get paid for their work is finding […]
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When you hear the word ‘landlord,’ odds are, your mind will automatically recoil because of some fairly negative associations. The fact is, when you’re a tenant, it can feel like your landlord has all the power in the world to make your life heaven or hell if they choose to. Though it can be fun […]
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Writing can get kind of lonely sometimes. Not only that, but it can get stale. Sometimes we fall into a formula when we write books, or we can’t get ourselves past the first few chapters of an idea, or we’re stuck in the dreaded middle section of our novel for what feels like forever. It […]
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