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One Mindset Shift I’m Making To Help More People
“Selling myself” was never the problem I used to have a visceral hatred of selling myself. It made me feel like I was betraying my values and goals, and I hated anyone who asked me to convince them of my worth. What right did they have to this priceless piece of me? Fuck that. There’s…
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How I Rob My Future
And why you should too Imagine your life. Imagine 10 years from now, and you’re sitting with the same people, drinking the same drinks, thinking the same thoughts, and eating the same food. It’s lovely, isn’t it? When I imagine my future, I see it exactly as it is now. I’m the same person, hate…
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Should You Put a Human on Your Book Cover
An age-old book nerd debate no one will solve “Like a fool, I decided not to go to a doctor — I wanted to get on with the book I was writing.” Sick with tuberculosis on an island called Jura, Eric Arthur Blair wrote the classic “1984.” He was in a race against death, but after a grueling…
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14 Signs You’re a More Successful Writer Than You Think
Or dare to believe It can be hard to call yourself a successful writer when you don’t feel like you’ve done much. When you don’t write every day. When you don’t publish your book in a year. When it takes half your life to finish your first novel. But none of these things are indicators of…
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Want To Get Your Book in Front of More People? Try Three of These 33 Twitter Hashtags
Join — or build — a community Twitter’s home to millions of people, many of them readers and writers. So, how can you get them to notice your book? Share your work? Help your work touch more people? Hashtags! Before getting into the most popular ones, here’s a few best practices when using these tiny community creators: Put…
