Welcome to this edition of Writer’s Tips. I’ve come across a wealth of insightful articles these past few weeks that I’m happy to share here for writers and bloggers. In today’s curated articles there’s a plethora of information on everything from better writing tips, publishing with Apple books news, onlines tools for free, self-hosting vs. WordPress.com, editing tips, and how to get more viewers for Youtube. Also, Harmony Kent has been running a series at The Story Empire with a detailed description on how to load our books on the Amazon platform. Check it out!
Author Meghan Ward is guest writer at the blog of Anne R. Allen sharing a wealth of tips of how to keep the action alive in our writing.
Is Your Story Getting Lazy? 5 Ways to Improve the Action in Your Story
David Gaughran demonstrates how to publish with the new Apple Books for Authors now available for PC.
https://davidgaughran.com/2020/05/08/apple-books-for-authors-launches-pc/#more-8629
Nicholas Rossis is sharing some great online tools for writers.
https://nicholasrossis.me/2020/05/29/free-content-creation-online-tools/
Also from Nicholas Rossis- a free tool – the Amazon Book Description Generator!
https://nicholasrossis.wordpress.com/2020/06/07/free-amazon-book-description-generator/
Jessica Norrie is sharing some great editing tips on how to de-clutter our writing.
Natalie Ducey has another informative post on the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress self-hosting and what’s involved.
https://natalieducey.com/2020/05/26/wordpress-com-or-wordpress-org/
Janice Wald of MostlyBlogging.com has an excellent article on what’s involved to get noticed on Youtube.
https://www.mostlyblogging.com/not-getting-views-on-youtube/#comment-80266
Last, and far from the least, Harmony Kent has a writer’s help series at the Story Empire where you will find all the links to each article in-depth on how to publish on Amazon. Below find the first part of the series:
https://storyempirecom.wordpress.com/2020/01/08/how-to-publish-with-kdp-part-one/
I hope you find these articles as helpful as I do, and I suggest saving what is relevant to you in folders for easy access.
©DGKaye