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7 What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?

8 Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?

20 Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

24 Would you say your writing has changed over time?

@idontknowreallywhy Thank you for the asks!

7 What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?

Oh! That's a good question. I'd say the constant obvious feature is emotion over plot. Most of my stories take place in one locus, or even inside one character's head. Characters mostly just think and feel on the page. They barely ever talk.

In terms of trademark style - I DOOOOO love me some parcellation and ellipsis. Because I feel the need for a story to fall into a rhythm, if read out loud, like poetry. Elliptical constructions are definitely interference from both Ukrainian and Russian where a subject in a sentence can be omitted.

I also love all types of parallel constructions and inversions/chiasmus - anaphora, epiphora, anadiplosis - you name it, it's probably there.

I know that I often fall into the adverb and synonym rabbit hole - but hey! - I'm writing in a foreign language, gotta showcase that AP English vocabulary (and get points from my seventh grade English professor).

8 Is what you like to write the same as what you like to read?

Absolutely! I'm very often a one-person-fandom or something close thereof, or I have readings of character and/or pairing that are not mainstream, so I pave my little corner with stories that I would want to read.

The fun thing is - I don't really like to wax meta about my writing. I can do it about other fic, but I would just rather do meta about the actual canon text. The reason I write fic is because the genre of meta began to die out or people in many fandoms that I observe began to conflate "headcanon/the way I wrote it in that story" with the actual (sub/con)textual data. If I wanted to get my reading across as a concept - I needed to write it as a story or a character study piece. I'm actually not too happy about it, because I'm arguably a lot better reader and interpreter, than a writer.

In terms of the actual question: I think a recurring symbol is, of course, the Pieta (a martyr being held in compassion, exhausted and limp) and the themes that go with it - laying down one's burdens, heavy head that bears the crown, the loneliness of leadership and legacy, the crushing weight of the world. Existential doubt and angst. Grief. Always an exploration of prolonged unprocessed grief and its many facets and symptoms. Father and son (heir apparent) dynamics is probably the one that I zero in on without fail. In TAG, while I love the exploration of brothers' relationship with Scott, it's Scott and Jeff that utterly mesmerize me. Also "a heart in conflict with itself", always. So many of my stories across fandoms are character vignettes of the "tall, dark, handsome, and emotionally compromised".

24 Would you say your writing has changed over time?

This is also a peculiar thing I've observed - I happen to believe my writing has gotten worse. I used to be very proud of the impressionistic drabbles I would write out back in the day. Objectively, I do understand they were closer to graded essays than the stories I write out now. My writing has become more... accomodated to a straightforward narrative - who goes where and says what. I also objectively understand that writing is a learned skill, so having been practicing so extensively, I couldn't have gone that observably worse. But I in general feel like my brain is working worse through the past 2,5 years of the war - less bright, less quick and eloquent. I would very much like to snap out of it. But for that I probably need to stop being under constant stress, duress and mortal threat on a daily basis.

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wanna-be-glottal-poly · 5 years ago

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A Stats Oriented Introduction

So I guess for an introduction of sorts I should say that I’m currently primarily using Duolingo for language learning as it is the most accessible for me (aka it’s free and you can do pretty much everything on the app that you can do on desktop).

And now you’re going to get my stats on Duolingo bc that’s all I can think of, and I am not at the point where i can have an original thought in any language other than English (and that’s only bc it’s my first language lol my brain doesn’t work well) without giving myself a major headache.

To be clear: I’m not going to be focusing on all of these languages. My main ones are Spanish, Hebrew, French, German, and Greek (in that order lol). The other’s might show up but they’re not the main ones I’m trying to learn.

Languages I am currently working on:

Spanish- started learning this on Duolingo my junior or senior year of high school and it’s the only language I’ve started and not stopped (tho sometimes I’ll go several months without doing anything)

Total XP: 7469 XP

# of Crowns: 73

Approx. amount of time I’ve been working on it: 6 years

Hebrew- started learning this bc I’m in the process of converting to Judaism and I want to know Hebrew; I’m also about to start a Religious Studies MA program and I imagine knowing Hebrew will be useful when I eventually go for my PhD

Total XP: 1704 XP

# of Crowns: 18

Approx. amount of time I’ve been working on it: ~2 or 3 months

Russian- I wanted to be able to tell what’s up with the Cyrillic alphabet tbh; I don’t practice this one much and it’s not one of my main focuses right now

Total XP: 895 XP

# of Crowns: 10

Approx. amount of time I’ve been working on it: 9 months (this is the second time I’ve started it tho)

Dutch- idk I just wanted to and then I got into it and was thrown for a loop because a lot of the early sentences it gave I was like ‘wait i understand what this is saying’ which was cool

Total XP: 751 XP

# of Crowns: 10

Approx. amount of time I’ve been working on it: ~10 months (i didn’t do anything with it for like six months tho)

German- I’m learning this solely bc my MA Handbook says that most PhD programs for religious studies require German & French

Total XP: 721 XP

# of Crowns: 18

Approx. amount of time I’ve been working on it: 1 month

French- I’m learning this solely bc my MA Handbook says that most PhD programs for religious studies require German & French; also i just want to try to understand what’s up with French

Total XP: 510 XP

# of Crowns: 9

Approx. amount of time I’ve been working on it: 1 month (this is the second time I’ve started it)

Latin- i had a 9 weeks long class in 7th grade where we did Latin on Rosetta Stone and I was the only one who did fairly decently in it so i figured why not (and it’ll probably help with Religious Studies at some point)

Total XP: 500 XP

# of Crowns: 8

Approx. amount of time I’ve been working on it: 5 months

Greek- solely for religious studies reasons (yes i know it’s not Biblical Greek but it’s a jumping off point and I’m sure there’s some similarities and if I know modern Greek it might be easier to figure out ancient Greek)

Total XP: 479 XP

# of Crowns: 4

Approx. amount of time I’ve been working on it: 1 month

Total All Time XP: 13,044 XP

Languages I’ve started and then quit:

Japanese

Korean

Arabic

Turkish

Irish

Hawaiian

Romanian

Welsh

Scottish Gaelic

Klingon (hi, big Star Trek nerd here)

Esperanto

Topics I have Crowns in:

Spanish: (some of these exist bc I’ve been doing Spanish since before they restructured into Crowns)

Intro: 5

Phrases: 5

Restaurant: 5

Travel: 5

Family: 5

Shopping: 5

School: 5

People: 5

Greetings: 4

People 2: 1

Family 2: 1/2 of 1

People 4: 1

Vocab 1: 1

Home 2: 1

Times: 1

Adj. 1: 2

Present 1: 2

Grammar: 2

Adverbs: 2

Objects: 1

Places: 1

People 5: 1/5 of 1

Hebrew:

Letters 1: 5

Letters 2: 5

Letters 3: 5

Phrases: 2 1/2

Basics: 1

Greek:

ABC: 4

French:

Basics 1: 5

Greetings: 2

Basics 2: 2

Dutch:

Basics 1: 5

Basics 2: 5

Phrases 1: 1/3 of 1

German:

Basics 1: 5

The: 5

Basics 2: 5

Phrases: 3

Latin:

Intro: 5

Greetings: 3

Russian:

Alphabet: 5

Basics 1: 4 1/2

Phrases: 1 1/4

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10 most common homophones mistaken by students

College students having ESL often fumbles with the use of homophones while writing their assignments. You may have taken some instant help from quick language tutorials and we all do the same. However, homophones are particular nuances of the English language that is enough to lose marks in student’s assignment. Online assignment editing services are at your reach to help students and ahem you as well.

Thus, we have come up with 10 most common and confused homophone mistake that sound alike however spelled differently.

1. affect/effect

Though these two words sound similar, they have a different meaning. ‘Affect’ denotes influence where ‘effect’ indicates results to a cause. If your child can’t distinguish between these homophones, you can opt for Online Assignment Editing Services.

2. Then/Than

You can use 'than' for making any comparison whereas ‘then’ shows a time period. These homophones mistakes are most common among students which assignment editing services handle with great care.

3. buy/by

Another homophone is that ‘by’ is a proposition for indicating location, whereas ‘buy’ denotes purchase.

4. hear/here

‘Hear’ indicates listening and ‘here’ determines location which works as preposition as well. Online assignment editing services make use of correct word in correct place in their assignment help.

5. Witch/Which

The term ‘which’ is used as a pronoun that refers to animals or things whereas ‘Witch’ indicates scary women. Students often misspelled these homophones in their assignment that reduce their marks in the exam.

6. Accept/Except

‘Accept’ means receive whereas ‘except’ means excluding. Online assignment editing services use words with correct spelling and correct meaning in their assignment help.

7. Whether/Weather

‘Whether’ is used as conjunction that denotes introduction of choices. On the contrary, ‘weather’ is a state of atmosphere. Assignment editing services do proofread the entire file after completing writing to avoid these homophone mistakes.

8. to/too

The word ‘to’ is a preposition whereas ‘too’ means excessive that works as an adverb. Online assignment editing services do rectify the files of students who have confused among these homophones.

9. bear/bare

Another common homophone is that ‘Bear’ is an animal and ‘bare’ denotes lack of adornment, used as an adjective.

10. Compliment/Complement

Compliment determines a sense of praise whereas complement refers to something that completes. Thus, if you want your marks to reach high grade go and avail online assignment editing services for better assignment guidance.

Thus, if you too having nightmares for your assignment that indulge homophones mistaken then go grab the opportunity of assignment editing services for better grades and prosperous career.

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10+ Indispensable (and Free!) Marketing Graders and Social Media Scores

You can audit your marketing in many ways—be it a quick-and-simple social media audit or a full-scale blog review. You can take the time to run the numbers yourself (a useful exercise!), or you can plug a URL into a new tool and have it tell you what it thinks.

The more feedback, the better.

That’s why we’re such big fans of quick and efficient marketing graders. You get actionable data, and you get it in seconds.

I’ve bookmarked several of my favorites and dug up a handful of other useful graders and tools to come up with this list of 10+ website graders, content scores, and social media ratings. Take them for a spin, and let me know which ones are most beneficial for you and your content!

Indispensable Grading Tools to Fine-Tune Your Marketing

1. Hubspot’s Marketing Grader

The Buffer website’s score from HubSpot’s website grader

Enter your blog’s URL and your email address, and press go. Marketing Grader will give you an overall score for your website, based on four categories:

Performance

Mobile

SEO

Security

Each section has a checklist of items as well as grades for individual aspects of the category. For instance, Website Grader will check your site for page titles, meta descriptions, and headings — all of which are useful elements for strong SEO and also quite useful for having shareable social media content. SEO titles and descriptions are what appear natively when you share links on your social profiles.

2. Nibbler

Nibbler score for the MeUndies website and social profiles

The free Nibbler test looks at a laundry list of site and blog characteristics��more than 20 high-level items—spitting out an overall score (on a scale of 1 to 10) and a list of improvements ordered by priority.

Nibbler is one of the tools that goes the deepest on tying the website and social media profiles together. It will check for things like:

Twitter and Facebook pages, both whether you have one and whether or not they’re linked to from your website

The social interest of your website: how many times your links have been shared on social recently

Plus a ton of social-first on-page metrics like the amount of content and images, plus meta titles and descriptions.

Useful takeaway:

The heading word cloud at Nibbler shows exactly which words we’ve been using most often in our headings and titles. For instance, on the Buffer blog we’re aiming to be an authority on social media marketing, so we’re happy to see “social” and “media” rank so highly. It’s also neat to see what other words you might be getting mileage for, without even knowing it.

In our case, we seem to mention the words “minutes” and “good-looking” quite a lot!

For a quick example case, we ran the MeUndies website through Nibbler to see what it found. Here are the top recommendations that Nibbler came up with:

Add social media buttons on articles and pages of your website.

Link your Facebook page from your website

Add meaningful anchor text to your links

3. Woorank

WooRank grade for Warby Parker’s marketing

WooRank’s free tool tests seven aspects of your site—SEO, mobile, usability, technologies, social, local, and traffic. They’ve got just about everything covered here. The final result is a score on a scale of 1 to 100 and a report that you can download as a pdf or slides to share with your team.

The social section in particular goes really deep. It’s almost like a full social media audit of its own!

That’s right. Woorank will tell you all these things about your social profiles:

Engagement rates

Profile descriptions

Profile cover photos

URLs

and contact info

And Woorank displays it all in an easy-to-view format so you can quickly see how your social profiles stack up side-by-side. This can be invaluable if you’re trying to maintain a consistent brand across multiple profiles.

Useful takeaway:

Woorank is that it analyzes your site to make sure you . have the proper meta tags in place, specifically with Facebook’s Open Graph protocol. This is the meta information that tells Facebook what picture to show and what titles and descriptions to use whenever someone shares your site on social media.

We did a quick grade for the Warby Parker website, and wow, they came out looking great. Woorank gives them a 94 score.

4. W3C validator

The previous graders on this list have been full of helpful, high-level marketing tips. The W3C Validator gives you straight-up fixes to make.

Run your site through W3C Validator, and see exactly which code errors appear on your website. The validator tool tells you the specific line of code in which the error appears. After the must-fix items, you also receive a series of warnings that could be worth checking into also.

Useful takeaway:

Many of of W3C’s warnings come across as helpful guidance. For instance, W3C recommends that each page have only one <h1> tag. This will typically be the headline of a blogpost or title of a page, and then other information—like calls-to-action or email signup forms—can take <h2> or <h3> headings instead.

Recommendations for the Buffer blog:

Double-check the way we add utm parameters to links

Fix an alt tag in our email signup form

5. Clarity Grader

Most of the above tools look at various marketing and technical aspects of your site. Clarity Grader checks the words themselves.

The report details the language you use on the site, analyzing 20 pages to come up with some incredibly sharp linguistic insights.

Passive voice

Long sentences

Adverbs

Grade level

(Note: When you run the tool, you also sign up for Clarity Grader.)

Useful takeaway:

The “cliches and jargon” test at Clarity Grader has a ton of interesting insights. It’s amazing how often I’m tempted to use words that appear in this list.

In addition to the cliches and jargon, you can change the “bad language” dictionary to show your score versus Complex Words, Legal Jargon, and Sexist terms.

Bonus tool:

If you’re worried about sounding too business-y in your writing, we’d recommend checking out Jargon Grader. All you have to do is paste in a bunch of text, and it will identify the number of jargon words you used. We ran some of our podcast show notes through the tool, and found out that the word “content” qualifies as jargon. Ooops!

6. MetaTags.io

Now, this one is a bit different than the other tools we’ve listed because it doesn’t spit out a clear number score or letter grade. But it’s no less powerful and actionable.

With MetaTags.io, you can enter in the URL from any page and see exactly how it will look on a variety of places. The full list includes:

Facebook

Google

Twitter

even Slack

You’ll see a full preview of your link within the exact UI of each of these platforms. This way, you can tell how your headline and description and image all fit together when shared online.

You can even edit the text within the MetaTags tool itself, in order to find that perfect pairing.

One other thing we love about MetaTags is that you can pay to download it as a WordPress plugin for your blog or website. This way, you can run a MetaTags check on all your content before it’s published in order to ensure that it will be shared just the way you want.

7. GradeMyAds

GradMyAds analyzes whether your social ads are working or not. To get started with GradeMyAds, you authorize with your Facebook credentials. This gives the tool a way to examine your Facebook ads account and give you grades for Facebook and Instagram advertising.

The insights you get are really fascinating.

You’ll get a score from 1 to 100. Plus, you’ll have a breakdown of ad spend in the past 30 days, people reached in the past 30 days, and average Return on Ad Spend for your campaigns.

What’s also great is that GradeMyAds will tell you your five top-performing ads in three different categories: Your best ads in terms of cost per engagement, relevance score, and total ad spend.

One useful tip to get the most out of this tool: If you click on the score itself, GradeMyAds will tell you how it arrived at its calculation and all the different factors it considered. In the case of the Buffer ad accounts, we learned some really insightful tips on the consistency of our ads and their overall quality. We’re really glad we tried this tool!

8. Brand Grader

Brand Grader will grade your brand’s presence online. It’s built by the folks at Mention who make a pretty great tool for social monitoring and listening.

When you plug in the name of a brand, Brand Grader will give you an influencer score based on the influential journalists, bloggers, and thought leaders who are talking about your brand. It will break down the top web and social sources where your brand has been mentioned recently, as well as a chart for the volume of mentions and a map for the geographic demographics of where you’ve been mentioned. It will even gauge sentiment.

We ran a test with Leesa mattresses to see how their brand ranked, and boy are they looking good! Their sentiment score was 92% positive, and they have some really influential sites talking about them — including Wikipedia.

(This next series of scores go a bit beyond simply typing your website URL and pressing Enter. Some of these are part of premium products or require a free account or ask you to be pretty proficient with spreadsheets. If you’re wanting to keep things free and easy, you can try the do-it-yourself route, and take inspiration from the way these tools score content.)

9. Google’s Content Quality Score

Primary factors:

Quality and quantity of main content

Level of E.A.T. – Expertise, Authority, Trust

Reputation

Secondary factors:

Website information

Helpful supplemental content

Functional page design

Website maintenance

Terence Mace of Mace Dynamics wrote a detailed post about the signals of Google’s content quality score, a direct influence on how Google ranks pages in search results. Google does not promote the specifics of the score, so Terence did some digging, testing, and experimenting to come up with his list of factors.

Here’s a little more on three intriguing ones.

Quality and quantity of the main content depends on how well the content meets the purpose of the page. One interesting factor that Google may consider is dwell time, i.e. how long a person spends on a site after clicking a search result and before clicking back to the results page. The more dwell time, the better.

E.A.T. can include author rank, page rank, and a number of specific ways to measure trust (like the very untrustworthy footer text “domain is for sale”)

Reputation includes what others say about your or your company/brand online. These are some of the sources considered:

News articles

Wikipedia articles

Blog posts

Magazine articles

Forum discussions

10. Moz’s One Metric

Factors:

Unique visits

Thumbs up on a story

Comments

Facebook likes

Tweets

Google+ Plus Ones

The Moz One Metric combines the above factors to compare blogposts and score new content based on its performance relative to the average. So if a new blogpost gets more uniques, comments, and tweets than normal, its One Metric score will soar.

Moz outlined their entire process, and you can copy and edit your own version of the One Metric, customized with the stats and weights that are important to you. We’ve been using a Buffer version of the One Metric that also includes Time on Page, LinkedIn Shares, and syndication as part of the final score. (We built one for our social media content, too.)

11. BuzzFeed’s Viral Lift

Factors:

Social shares

Clicks

Views

BuzzFeed editors can see a simple overlay on all stories on the homepage. One of these stats is viral lift, a measurement of the number of times a story is shared (and clicked) per view from the website or an ad.

The Contently blog followed up with some added context to some of the other factors that BuzzFeed considers. One of these factors is engaged time, specifically the percentage of the page that the reader has scrolled/read. BuzzFeed’s Ky Harlin explained how this metric impacts the content.

We treat each individual item in a list almost like its own article. So we’ll try to really figure out what people are engaging with and turn a list of 45 items to a list of 25 items without the duds, reordered to make it most likely to share.

Conclusion

What insights can you find about your marketing?

Do you have a system in place for scoring and tracking the performance of your marketing?

I’d love to hear what you learn from these tools and what you do for your website and blog and social media. Please leave any thoughts you might have in the comments!

Image sources: IconFinder, Blurgrounds, Contently, Fast Company, Jay Mantri

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mariemary1 · 6 years ago

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10+ Indispensable (and Free!) Marketing Graders and Social Media Scores

The more feedback, the better.

That’s why we’re such big fans of quick and efficient marketing graders. You get actionable data, and you get it in seconds.

Indispensable Grading Tools to Fine-Tune Your Marketing

1. Hubspot’s Marketing Grader

The Buffer website’s score from HubSpot’s website grader

Enter your blog’s URL and your email address, and press go. Marketing Grader will give you an overall score for your website, based on four categories:

Performance

Mobile

SEO

Security

2. Nibbler

Nibbler score for the MeUndies website and social profiles

The free Nibbler test looks at a laundry list of site and blog characteristics—more than 20 high-level items—spitting out an overall score (on a scale of 1 to 10) and a list of improvements ordered by priority.

Nibbler is one of the tools that goes the deepest on tying the website and social media profiles together. It will check for things like:

Twitter and Facebook pages, both whether you have one and whether or not they’re linked to from your website

The social interest of your website: how many times your links have been shared on social recently

Plus a ton of social-first on-page metrics like the amount of content and images, plus meta titles and descriptions.

Useful takeaway:

In our case, we seem to mention the words “minutes” and “good-looking” quite a lot!

For a quick example case, we ran the MeUndies website through Nibbler to see what it found. Here are the top recommendations that Nibbler came up with:

Add social media buttons on articles and pages of your website.

Link your Facebook page from your website

Add meaningful anchor text to your links

3. Woorank

WooRank grade for Warby Parker’s marketing

The social section in particular goes really deep. It’s almost like a full social media audit of its own!

That’s right. Woorank will tell you all these things about your social profiles:

Engagement rates

Profile descriptions

Profile cover photos

URLs

and contact info

Useful takeaway:

We did a quick grade for the Warby Parker website, and wow, they came out looking great. Woorank gives them a 94 score.

4. W3C validator

The previous graders on this list have been full of helpful, high-level marketing tips. The W3C Validator gives you straight-up fixes to make.

Useful takeaway:

Recommendations for the Buffer blog:

Double-check the way we add utm parameters to links

Fix an alt tag in our email signup form

5. Clarity Grader

Most of the above tools look at various marketing and technical aspects of your site. Clarity Grader checks the words themselves.

The report details the language you use on the site, analyzing 20 pages to come up with some incredibly sharp linguistic insights.

Passive voice

Long sentences

Adverbs

Grade level

(Note: When you run the tool, you also sign up for Clarity Grader.)

Useful takeaway:

The “cliches and jargon” test at Clarity Grader has a ton of interesting insights. It’s amazing how often I’m tempted to use words that appear in this list.

In addition to the cliches and jargon, you can change the “bad language” dictionary to show your score versus Complex Words, Legal Jargon, and Sexist terms.

Bonus tool:

6. MetaTags.io

Now, this one is a bit different than the other tools we’ve listed because it doesn’t spit out a clear number score or letter grade. But it’s no less powerful and actionable.

With MetaTags.io, you can enter in the URL from any page and see exactly how it will look on a variety of places. The full list includes:

Facebook

Google

Twitter

even Slack

You’ll see a full preview of your link within the exact UI of each of these platforms. This way, you can tell how your headline and description and image all fit together when shared online.

You can even edit the text within the MetaTags tool itself, in order to find that perfect pairing.

7. GradeMyAds

The insights you get are really fascinating.

You’ll get a score from 1 to 100. Plus, you’ll have a breakdown of ad spend in the past 30 days, people reached in the past 30 days, and average Return on Ad Spend for your campaigns.

What’s also great is that GradeMyAds will tell you your five top-performing ads in three different categories: Your best ads in terms of cost per engagement, relevance score, and total ad spend.

8. Brand Grader

Brand Grader will grade your brand’s presence online. It’s built by the folks at Mention who make a pretty great tool for social monitoring and listening.

9. Google’s Content Quality Score

Primary factors:

Quality and quantity of main content

Level of E.A.T. – Expertise, Authority, Trust

Reputation

Secondary factors:

Website information

Helpful supplemental content

Functional page design

Website maintenance

Here’s a little more on three intriguing ones.

E.A.T. can include author rank, page rank, and a number of specific ways to measure trust (like the very untrustworthy footer text “domain is for sale”)

Reputation includes what others say about your or your company/brand online. These are some of the sources considered:

News articles

Wikipedia articles

Blog posts

Magazine articles

Forum discussions

10. Moz’s One Metric

Factors:

Unique visits

Thumbs up on a story

Comments

Facebook likes

Tweets

Google+ Plus Ones

11. BuzzFeed’s Viral Lift

Factors:

Social shares

Clicks

Views

Conclusion

What insights can you find about your marketing?

Do you have a system in place for scoring and tracking the performance of your marketing?

I’d love to hear what you learn from these tools and what you do for your website and blog and social media. Please leave any thoughts you might have in the comments!

Image sources: IconFinder, Blurgrounds, Contently, Fast Company, Jay Mantri

Thank 10+ Indispensable (and Free!) Marketing Graders and Social Media Scores for first publishing this post.

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All of the colors. Pls

Purple: 10 facts about my room

The walls are yellow (1), there’s a lil rainbow flag above the light switch cover (2), I have a stolen public transit map next to my bed along with a poster from a poetry slam (3) and a self-portrait from eighth grade (4), and my desk is white; it used to be my mom’s (5). Aside from that, my room is always a mess (6) and most of the furniture is black (7), including my bunk bed (8). My favorite part of my room is the little striped armchair in the corner (9). It’s also yellow.

Blue: 9 facts about my family

It’s in two pieces (1), I have a little sister (2), on one side of my family my uncle is apparently really big in the Filipino entertainment industry (3), none of my grandparents speak English (4), my parents are cooler than yours (5), my stepsister was born seven hours after me (6), I love my dad more than anyone else on this planet (7), my cousin blocked me on Instagram the other day for no apparent reason (8), and I have a lot of aunts and uncles. Like, a lot.

Green: 8 facts about my body

I get made fun of for my bust size a lot and this kind of bothers me (1). I’m ten pounds underweight (2). The veins on the back of my right hand sort of resemble Africa in shape (3). I get acne on my boobs. I’ve never bothered to treat it (4). I’m a shoe size 8-9 (5). The undertones in my skin are more warm than cool (6). I retain heat worse than a reptile, especially my hands (7), and I’ve never, ever shaved my legs.

Yellow: 7 facts about my childhood

I grew up in the suburbs (1), and I moved around within these suburbs quite a few times, from a house to an apartment to a smaller apartment to another house (2). I don’t remember much about the first few places, but the last house was right by an overpass (3), and I’d go sit by the overpass a lot, usually when I was feeling overwhelmed or if I was meeting someone (4). I had a best friend for about six years (5), and she was the one bright spot in my mostly depressing childhood (6). I read a lot of books.

Orange: 6 facts about my home town

I was born on the west coast of the US, but I consider the suburb I moved to when I was three to be my home town. It’s relatively large (1) and is home to a lot of rich people (2) and there’s one mall that all the middle schoolers hang out at, pretending they’re cool (3). I don’t think much has changed since I moved from it. I’m not sure anything ever changes there (4). The people who live there, for the most part, have kids who grow up, go to college and then move back to have kids about three miles from where they grew up (5). I think I just named the future for most of the people I went to middle school with.

Red: 5 facts about my best friend

I’ll give some about both of them.

She’s got a hella accent. She drinks too much. She plays Minecraft in her spare time and I’m not sure if her other friends know about that.

He’s possibly the most supportive and sweet person I have ever known. He falls in love with his whole heart. He’s a little too fond of being a meme.

Pink: 4 facts about my parents

For Asian parents, they’re pretty chill (1). I consider my stepmother to be my actual mother (2). They’re cooler than your parents (3). I genuinely enjoy spending time with them (4).

White: 3 facts about my personality

I like to think I’m vivacious (1). I’m a little too fake (2). I can’t help but turn back to people who hurt me (3).

Grey: 2 facts about my favorite things

It’s the most magical thing in the world (1). If I had to live without one or the other, I’d probably just die (2).

Black: 1 fact about the person I like

I am so in love with this person that I am willing to use adverbs to describe it.

#alexis answers #ask meme

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19 productivity app I use to stay productive

You got a brilliant idea, you want to sit down and work on it right away. But every time you start, you are distracted.

One day you somehow make time and sit down in isolation to complete that project.

Then in few mins, your mind starts to wander and still can’t get the project done.

Sounds familiar?

We live in a modern society filled with distractions. Too many things to remember, follow-up, many projects to get done and on and on.

How on earth can we even keep up with these demands?

You can’t. If you are tracking everything manually.

Fortunately, there are tools that help you to solve many of these problems.

I am going to list the ones I use and found it really useful.

1) BrainFM

BrainFM is no.1 productivity app on my list. It is amazing how this little app can help me focus better. Whenever I sit down to write or read or focus on anything. I turn the music on in this app and it works like magic.

This app claims that it figures your brain patterns. Based on that it feeds the brain with right kind of music to helps you focus or relax or sleep.

I haven’t used those much except the focused music. I can’t recommend this enough to anyone who likes to focus and get work done.

2) Scrivener

Scrivener is a desktop app that helps writers to write effectively. Especially, for long content like books, lengthy posts or guides.

This advanced editor helps to write well-organized content. And provides good visibility to categorize the content.

It also works as one place to collect reference materials, images, and screenshots.

If you are serious about writing then scrivener is a must to have app.

3) EverNote

Evernote is a multipurpose app, available as a desktop, web, mobile and chrome plugin as well. The app is a notebook app. Yet, the app is super powerful and you can do a lot more with it.

I use it

to collect reference materials,

snippets from the web,

take screenshots,

organize notes.

Now there is a feature in mobile to create hand drawn images too.

It comes in handy for any kind of work we do on the computer.

4) Asana

I call it a mini project management app. Not too complicated to use and works best for small teams. Basically, you can list all your tasks in the asana app, add notes, set deadlines, assign it to your team member and close the task as you complete it.

You can also create separate projects, add team members to the projects, create and assign tasks.

Finally, track all the work in one place to understand the status of the projects.

It helps immensely when we outsource work or have someone else do the work for us.

5) Slack

Another top productivity apps that I use regularly. It is a giant chat application with a ton of integrations. You can add your team to the slack and collaborate with them.

Share ideas, files or send information to other apps from the slack itself.

For example, while chatting with your friend if an idea pops up. You can directly tag it and send it to asana as a task or Wunderlist as a reminder.

With a ton of integrations with other apps, the possibilities are endless.

6) Grammarly

I don’t think I can live without this app. Grammarly is a proofreading app which outsmarts most of the other proofreading apps I ever tried.

The best part is the chrome plugin helps you to proofread anywhere you write. Whether you are writing an email in Gmail or sharing a status on facebook. The app automatically points out the spelling or grammar issue and helps to correct it in a click.

It even has an integration with MS office, so you can proofread while you are writing on Word too.

Amazing app for everyone.

7) Hemingway app

Another writing editor that I use. Hemingway app primarily focuses on helping you write better. Not as good as Grammarly on checking for grammar. But it helps to write better and format in a way to make it is easy for people to read. It points out the use of adverbs, active passive voice usage and breaking into smaller paragraphs. Finally, based on the writing it grades your article.

8) Wunderlist

Wunderlist is a reminder app that works well for me. There is a phone version and web version as well. You don’t have to search for the phone to add a reminder when you are working on the computer. The main feature I like is you can add users and assign reminders for them. It also helps you customize the categories and add the tasks in them. You can choose to see all the reminders at once or reminders for the day or for the week.

9) Google Apps/Gsuite

Google apps are an alternative to Microsoft office products.

I use most of the app even though I have Office installed on my computer. The reason is it saves the content instantly in the cloud.

For some reason, the system shuts down or crashes or if I forget to save (which I do more often). The data is already saved and when I reopen the app, all the content is right there where I left off.

10) Google Drive

Google Drive lets you store information, files in the cloud. With the desktop drive app, you can instantly sync the content on your computer. There is no need to upload or download the content.

And when you move from one computer to another, the files automatically appear in the system for you to use.

11) Google Drawings

The drawings let you create flow charts and diagrams. It is useful to create diagrams to share ideas. Or to send the instructions to your contractors about the project.

12) Gmail with Streak CRM

Of course, most of us use Gmail as the primary email provider. You can add more power to Gmail by adding other apps to it.

One of them is Streak CRM

They help me track emails. Especially when I send it to important people. It lets me know if the person opened the email and read it or not.

Then you can create pipelines to follow up, track and interact with that person.

It is fundamentally a CRM app, so there would be stages from leads to converting to a customer. But I use it for tracking emails and not much for CRM.

13) Followup

Followup and Boomerang are emails productivity apps to send follow up emails. You how critical it is to follow up people and get the work done. Unfortunately, this is the area where most of us forget to remember the follow-up part.

Even if you set up reminders, you might be busy with other work to send that follow-up email. These apps let you draft the content and schedule it for follow-up. If the recipient did not send a response, the app sends this follow-up email automatically.

14) Rescue Time

Rescue Time is a chrome extension that helps you track your time. You can define the productive tasks and distracting tasks in the app. The app will automatically track where you are spending your time every day. It will send an email with a report every week about the progress.

Based on the trend you can alter the way you are spending time. For me, it was an eye opener.

Every time you will be surprised to see where you are spending a lot of time.

This app also lets you set goals and track it. For example, you can say that you want to write for an hour every day. It will track and let you know if you met the goal or not.

With the advanced option in the app, it will also let you block sites for a specified time.

A productive app to help stay focused.

15) Stencil

I create images more often and I need an easy way to customize them. Rather than spending hours in photoshop or some complex tool.

Stencil makes it easier. It provides many templates and design that you can readily use.

The best part is, it also provides many royalty free stock images. Search for the image, apply a template and set the size. Share it directly from the app. Super helpful app.

16) Dashlane

Dashlane is a popular app to store passwords and notes securely. You won’t believe how much time you spend on entering the username and password, every time you go to a website.

Not even counting the time you need to store and retrieve. Unless if you have extremely good memory, it is also impossible to remember all the password.

The app lets you store the credentials automatically. When you create it and auto fill whenever you open that website.

17) Honey

I am one of those people who like shopping online. It easy and convenient.

When shopping online, you can always find coupon codes and save money.

The problem is finding those coupon codes is not easy. More than that finding the best coupon code with most saving is even more difficult.

For me, it is too much waste of time.

Honey does this automatically. You install the chrome plugin and whenever you reach the checkout page of any website. It searches the internet for the best coupon code and picks the one that has better saving.

It works like magic. Even if you forget, Honey will automatically apply the savings to your cart.

It works on almost every single website.

18) IFTTT

IFTTT is one of a productivity app that automates integration between apps. The full form of IFTTT is “if this then that”. You can automate many things with IFTTT. Like you can share your content on all social media automatically as soon as you publish it. or Get the weather update automatically to your email or slack. or set to unmute your android phone as soon as you enter the home and much more. There are a lot of these integrations in IFTTT that can be used for day to day activities.

19) Zapier

Zapier is a lot like IFTTT but a premium app with lot more integrations. They have 750+ apps in their directory. Many apps are targeted for business than personal use. However, it’s powerful and very productive.

You can do complex integrations in Zapier and automate many repetitive tasks.

Conclusion

These are my top productivity apps that I use regularly.

What is yours?

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The Best Language Learning Process Started with an Architecture Course at a German University

You still haven’t widely heard about it because we’re still developing the structure of the platform and currently doing a pre-launch for it on IndieGogo, but the best learning language learning process that will soon no longer be the world’s best-kept secret was unexpectedly started in an Architecture Course at a German University.

You see, as a doctorate and lecturer in Architecture, our founder started his first year of teaching using exactly the method that MemoZing works with and that the world’s largest brands have used for years to make their sales reach staggering numbers.

Basically, MemoZing’s founder used a set of cognitive psychology-based brain hacks and techniques that allowed his students to learn about 300 knowledge units in just one week. Their learning experience was so incredible, that they felt confident enough to take the course’s exam immediately.

Now, just to contextualize, in order to get the best grade, students had to correctly answer 99% of all questions, and it always took months of classes and study to make them feel ready for the exam. In this case, with this method, these students took the exam and more than 60% of them accomplished the highest grade possible. In one week!

Indeed, the results of using MemoZing’s learning method in this course were nothing less than amazing. So much so, that our founder decided to assemble our team and start creating the brain hack e-learning revolution that is coming soon on IndieGogo.

So, where does the best language learning process come into the picture?

Well, in order for someone to be a competent user of a language, a person needs to learn, understand and be able to efficiently use 1,000 basic words of that language. That often takes months of intensive and expensive study, and even with that effort, results are often underwhelming and frustrating for students.

With MemoZing’s method, you’ll be able to learn 100 words per day. Let that sink in. 100 words per day, and effortlessly, because our brain hack approach is designed to trigger your brain to learn quickly and effortlessly, without thinking too much about it. It’s also designed to make acquired knowledge quickly transition into your long-term memory, namely by precisely triggering repetitions to invert the forgetting curve.

This means that, with MemoZing, you’ll be able to learn, understand and efficiently use an entirely new language in only 1 month. Even better, this will happen in an extremely affordable way.

Pardon our French, but this is not bogus. This is the real deal. Our IndieGogo backers will have access to language courses in Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic, French, Russian, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Turkish and Italian — to begin with. They will be able to choose one of these courses, which will teach them 100 words per day. Within 1 month, they’ll be efficiently using any one of these languages — which of course have a lot more than 1,000 words to be learned, but, as we’re sure you’ll agree, this is a very good start.

We intend to offer language courses in all major languages in the world. However, just like a language learner, we need to start somewhere, so we’re starting with most of the world’s most widely spoken languages. Oh, and that’s not all.

To make it even more useful and specific, since every person has specific goals and needs in mind when it comes to language learning, we will offer MemoZing’s users the chance of learning vocabulary with a special focus — so, each one of the following topics will have learning units composed of 100 to 1,000 per topic:

1. most used words of the language

2. most used sentences of the language

3. architecture vocabulary

4. leisure and holidays vocabulary

5. business vocabulary

6. food and drinks vocabulary

7. general technology vocabulary

8. nautical vocabulary

9. art vocabulary

10. fashion vocabulary

11. places and squares vocabulary

12. sports vocabulary

13. transports and automobile vocabulary

14. film and theatre vocabulary

15. animal-related vocabulary

16. medicine vocabulary

17. biology vocabulary

18. math vocabulary

19. chemistry vocabulary

20. politics-related vocabulary

21. toys-related vocabulary

22. jewelry and jewels vocabulary

23. budget and finance vocabulary

24. plants and trees vocabulary

25. sexuality vocabulary (only for users aged 18 or more)

26. relationships and flirting vocabulary (only for users aged 18 or more)

27. vocabulary describing the relationship between people and words

28. verbs

29. adverbs

30. nouns

31. numbers

Would you like to be one of the first persons to try this method, and to actually gain access to it in early and very special conditions? Just click here to subscribe to our pre-launch on IndieGogo and be one of the first users of the MemoZing e-learning brain hack revolution!

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ENG 358 Week 7 Benchmark Assignment – Sentence Modifiers and Coordinators, Words, and Word Classes

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Prepare this assignment according to the instructions in “Sentence Modifiers and Coordinators, Words, and Word Classes.”

This resource is not a worksheet; prepare your responses in a separate document.

Part I: Sentence Modifiers

Directions: In a separate document, revise the following sentences that contain either dangling or misplaced modifiers. Note: There will be more than one way to fix these sentences.

1. Hurrying out the door, the door latch ripped a hole in my jacket.

2. The curtains are pretty bright in the baby’s room.

3. After taking some medicine, my stomach settled down.

Part II: Sentence Modifiers

Directions: In a separate document, identify each underlined phrase as a participial, appositive, or absolute modifying phrase.

1. Between the sharp, loud crashing of cymbals, he pounded the bass drum, its deep thud resonating through the stadium.

2. The guitarist followed the beat, strumming the chords rhythmically.

3. A means to an end that will help you develop ideas for your paper, this classroom activity is both fun and productive.

4. A slender animal with long legs, the cheetah is built for speed.

5. Charging forward, the bass guitarist hit a series of quick, low notes.

6. Legs wobbling, I struggled to stand up as the physical therapist rushed over to help.

7. My wife watched from her chair, offering love and encouragement.

8. Most universities require two courses in first-year composition, English I and English II.

9. He grabbed my hands to steady me, both of us shuffling toward the treadmill.

10. The students reading the highest number of pages during the break received a free book as an award.

Part III: Sentence Coordinators Answer Key

Directions: Using conjunctions and appropriate punctuation, fix sentences that have grammatical problems (such as run-on sentences or problems with parallel structure) and combine shorter sentences to make them longer. Some options for conjunctions are “and,” “but,” “or,” “if,” “until.” Some types of punctuation are , : ; —.

1. He saw the accident, it happened very quickly.

2. They wanted to renovate their home, it had old paint and worn carpet.

3. All of my favorite foods have high levels of salt, sugar and fat, I have a difficult time cooking healthier versions.

4. They enjoy running a four-mile circuit. They usually run in the mornings before work.

5. He usually exercises in the morning. She prefers to go to the gym at night.

6. I did not know what to plan for my students next. I read through their drafts to make some decisions about tomorrow’s in-class activities.

7. Our textbook is engaging, informative, and you can read it quickly.

8. Today I will grade several papers, develop a new assignment, and be gathering material for my latest research.

9. I pulled an all-nighter working on my term paper. The next day, I needed some coffee to stay awake.

10. Tom and Morgan usually eat dinner together. They don’t eat dinner together when one of them has to work late.

11. The Utah Jazz are a basketball team with a great history. They have had trouble winning a championship.

12. I got a thank you note from a student she said she learned a great deal from the assignments we did.

Part IV: Identifying form classes

Directions: Identify the class of every word in the following sentences. Place your labels below the words: noun (n), verb (vb), adjective (adj), adverb (adv), determiner (det), auxiliary (aux), qualifier (qual), preposition (prep), conjunction (conj), expletive (exp), particle (part), pronoun (pro). Remember: Some words can serve as members of different classes, depending on how they are used.

1. Scholarships can help a student, but they may not cover the full cost of a degree.

2. We waited until they arrived.

3. If time is of the essence, is it not rather important?

4. Smart phones have made texting a standard form of communication.

5. Do not answer the questions until I start the timer.

6. We are cold in this weather, but we will not be cold forever.

1. My parents did not arrive on the plane; they drove here from their hotel.

2. Experience shows us that we must always reflect on our teaching.

3. A number of students show up to class and expect us to provide an informative lesson.

4. Give me a dime, and I will give you ten pennies.

5. If you have two fives, I can give you a ten.

6. He always allows children to express their creativity in his classes.

7. He can be so hilarious that he can have his audience in stitches.

8. Everyday people are usually courteous.

9. When my brother looks up that book, we hope we can purchase it online.

#ENG 358 Week 7 Benchmark Assignment

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August Writers’ Forum

In my journey through the steps of independent publishing, refining my writing skills, and most recently completing a successful agent search, I’ve come across some excellent information, tips, tools, and shortcuts that I think would be beneficial to any writer. Once a month, I’ll share the “best of” information and news from the publishing industry as well as feature other authors and writing instructors with tips to share. I am incredibly thankful for the assistance and advice given to me from writing and publishing professionals and am happy pay that forward. On a professional level, I also use my publicity and editorial skills to aid other authors through my company Lost Lake Press. Some purchase links for books I'm recommending are affiliate links which pay me a small fee.

New(ish) Books

Historical Fiction writer, Terri Karsten, is newly retired from teaching and has tackled a new project with a historical blog entitled Bric-A-Brac “Thoughts on writing, reading, and exploring the past. At the beginning of the summer she released a new historical fiction title for middle-grade readers. When Luck Runs Out purchase link

ABOUT THE BOOK: New York City is full of homeless orphans following the Civil War. Two of them, Meg Kelly and her little brother, Mole, take a chance on a better life. They travel Weston on an orphan train. Will they ever find a place to call home?

Midwest authors with lovely romantic and funny new releases included Angie Stanton with If Ever and Ellie Cahill with I Temporarily Do. I recommend them both! Look for an upcoming interview with Liz and a review of this latest title.

Bookish Events

September has a full slate of wonderful events to attend from Madison to Milwaukee. Here’s a few at the top of my list:

Mystery to Me Bookstore, 1863 Monroe Street, Madison (Full Event Details Here)

September 10 at 2 pm – Kevin Henkes and Laura Dronzek will celebrate their newest picture book collaboration In the Middle of Fall.

September 12 at 7 pm – Robert Madrygan will discuss his novel The Solace of Trees.

September 23 at 2 pm – Jim Thompson will give a talk about Peanut of Blind Faith Farm.

September 28 at 6 pm – Kathleen Ernst will launch her newest Chloe Ellefson mystery title Mining for Justice.

A Room of One’s Own, 315 W. Gorham Street, Madison (Full Event Details Here)

September 19 at 6:00 pm – Denise Dubois will discuss Self-Made Woman.

September 22 at 6:00 pm – Paul Buhl will launch his book Johnny Appleseed.

Books & Company of Oconomowoc is co-hosting an event with Michael Perry at the Pewaukee Public Library on September 22 at 5:30 pm. (Full Event Details Here)

Boswell Books of Milwaukee has a number of excellent ticketed events coming up in October. I’m posting these a month in advance as they tend to sell out. (Please note these are often in bigger event venues in the Milwaukee area.) (Full Event Details Here)

October 23 at 7 pm - Scott Kelly, author of Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery

October 8 at 4 pm – Rick Riordan, author of Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #3: The Ship of the Dead (and so much more.)

October 29 at 2 pm – Kate DiCamillo, author of La La La: A Story of Hope (and Tales of Despereaux and Because of Winn Dixie.) This event is co-hosted with Books & Company of Oconomowoc.

And . . . BANNED BOOKS WEEK begins September 24

I challenge everyone to read at least one book that has made this list through the years during the month of September. Report back here with what you read and what you thought of it. Inquiring minds want to know. This is a serious assignment!! (If September is too busy for you, see if any of the books you’ve previously read have made this list. You might be surprised.) Here’s list of the 100 most frequently challenged and banned books by decade.

I feel like if someone tells me something is banned, it makes me want to read it even more. Right!!??

Please let me know of any upcoming book releases or events that you’d like featured in the Writers’ Forum!

Featured Subject

Several Ideas to Face the Daily Challenge

I read Terry Whalin’s article about making time for it all at just the right time. I have a number of projects in progress, a few speaking events to prepare for, regular work, and family obligations to fit into each day and week. I’m sure I sound a lot like you.

I appreciated his acknowledgement that somehow made me feel like I’m not the only one who feels like they run from thing to thing all day long. His questions are pertinent and made me reassess how I truly use my time. He talks about balance, using technology, and admitting that not everything gets done.

His approach made me feel a lot better about my to-do list. See if you agree when you read the whole article here.

Pre-Publication Information

He Said/She Said – The Dos and Don’ts of Dialogue Tags

I loved this article by Katie McCoach on the KM Editorial blog. She gets beyond the said and asked and shows us good and bad examples. “I compare adverbs and alternate dialogue tags to a strong spice. Some is nice, but too much will spoil the batch.” This is a great tutorial that is helpful even if you are ‘seasoned’ author.

Preferences vs. Rules

On another grammar topic, Louise Harnby of the Proofreader’s Parlor discusses grammar rules versus preferences. You might be surprised that things you were taught in school as rules can be bent a bit. I think this will be a fun article to share with my critique group as we often have discussions just like this.

What You Need to Know Before You Judge the Self-Published Author

As a self-published or indie author, I have felt the sting of judgement from those in the traditional publishing world. I know that any other indie authors reading this have felt this disdain as well. What I find most interesting is how many authors now toggle between the two worlds, indie publishing some titles while traditionally publishing others. While some people may lament the indie publishing boom, I think the technology and systems that have made it possible for the indie author to reach larger audiences are a godsend. The Liminal Pages article on indie publishing is a must read for anyone in this industry no matter HOW you publish.

After all, “Diversity in the arts is strength.”

The next three articles toggle between pre- and post-publication. Decisions about formatting and distribution take place (technically) before publication, but after the book is essentially complete.

The Hard Facts on Hardcovers

Kathy Rowe on Indies Unlimited writes a thorough article about creating a hardcover book as an indie published author. Previously, most print-on-demand technologies only allowed for soft cover books, but for children’s book authors—particularly picture book authors—the hardcover has always been seen as a necessity but unavailable. But things change!! This article gives a thorough review of where you can get your beloved hardcovers and compares pricing from platform to platform.

Getting Your Self-Published Book into Libraries

You must have a thorough understanding of how to get your book into libraries before you make decisions that might impact your ability to do this. So well before you hit the ‘publish’ button read this excellent article by Jane Friedman – How to Get Your Book Distributed: What Self-Published Authors Need to Know. Further your education with a more detailed look at e-book distribution to libraries with the Digital Publishing 101 article on library distribution.

Post-Publication

The Coveted Book Table: How Those Books Get There

How does a book get plucked from the shelves of obscurity to lay flat in all its loveliness for the casual browser at a bookstore? Amy Collins on the Bookworks blog tell us all about this slightly insane process here.

Amazon Ads How To

Have you tried an Amazon ad yet? I haven’t, but I’m stockpiling information because I definitely need to give this a try to boost my sales. Luckily, many authors have come before us and written very nice tutorials about how this is done. Frances Caballo gives us the basics, including Amazon specifics like rules and word counts. And Deanna Cabinian gives a very thorough breakdown of her Amazon ad experience in promoting her young adult novel as a guest author on Jane Friedman’s blog. It’s very helpful to walk through Cabinian’s trial ads and the statistics for sales each generated. Now we have no excuses not to try this ourselves.

Just when you think you understand social media they change things around . . .

One of my favorite bloggers (can’t you tell), Frances Caballo, has written a two-part series on changes that have been made to the most popular social media platforms. You probably have noticed some of these already and adapted to them without much thought. You can find these on the Social Media Just for Authors Blog under these headlines: Have You Seen These Changes on Facebook and Twitter? Part 1 and Have You Seen These Social Media Changes? Part 2

I hope that these articles helped you on your writing and publishing journey!

Happy Reading & Writing, Valerie

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