Writing Tips – Writing Rules, Protect Your Blogs, Fonts and more!
This week’s edition of Writer’s Tips features some great info on creating book trailers, how to protect your blogs, writing tips, instructional on downloading fabulous fonts, Writers Beware, and knowing and breaking writing rules.
Fantastic How To on creating videos for our books with Canva
Fast and Easy Book Trailer Videos Using Canva: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to make the most of your writing time
The Race Where You Can’t Afford A Burn-out by Kim Dorothy
Another informative site with tips on how to protect our blogs from being stolen
http://www.blogtipsntricks.com/2014/07/protect-your-blog-from-being-copied.html
Natalie Ducey is generous with her sharing of Free Fonts, and she has a great video to demonstrate how to download and activate the fonts.
How to download and install beautiful fonts in seconds! #Fonts #Tutorial
Victoria Strauss from Writers Beware has a post out on a list of scamming sites for publishers
https://accrispin.blogspot.com/2019/08/from-philippines-not-with-love-plague.html?m=1
Knowing the writing rules before you can break them
Source: Writing Rules: When Can You Break Them? (Rules 1-6)
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D.G. Kaye is a nonfiction/memoir writer, who writes from her own life experiences and self-medicates with a daily dose of humor.
24 Comments
Stevie Turner
Victoria Strauss is extremely helpful where scammers, money-grabbers and bogus publishers are concerned.
dgkaye
She absolutely is on top of all the current scams. 🙂
Marian Beaman
Thanks for your timely tips, Debby!
I just got a notification from WordPress that my PHP is outdated and my security maybe breached. Always something! :-/
dgkaye
Oye! It’s always something. WP is giving so many grief! You have to check with your webhost. They are responsible for the PHP, 🙂
Jacqui
Good tips, especially on scams. Hate them!
dgkaye
Thanks Jacqui. Ditto!
lisa thomson
Thank you so much, Deb. I will be checking all of these links. I’m particularly interested in the create a video trailer. My new book is almost ready to publish and I would feel pretty proud to be able to create a video trailer for it. I’m hoping September pub. All of these articles look fantastic.
dgkaye
Oh fabulous Lis. I look forward to your new book! I’ll have to have you over for a feature too! <3
Norah Colvin
You’ve covered a lot of great topics here, Debby. I’ll come back to check some of them out later. Thanks.
dgkaye
Thanks Norah. At your leisure. 🙂
Sally Cronin
Very useful links Debby, thanks for bringing them together for us… hugs ♥
dgkaye
My pleasure Sal <3
Hilary
Debby – thanks for these … I’ll be looking at the Fonts … while notice about security is useful … Victoria Strauss is great to be tapped into …
Jenny Pearson has let a few of us know about our security … she emailed me personally yesterday -haven’t got to do what she suggested just yet … but will do so shortly …
https://pearsonreport.blogspot.com/2019/08/your-blog-is-not-secure-find-out-why.html
Hope you don’t mind this link … cheers Hilary
dgkaye
Thanks so much Hilary. No problem. I appreciate the share. 🙂
John Maberry
Oh, some month soon (I AM determined!) I will make use of some of these great tips. 🙂
dgkaye
Happy to enlighten you. 🙂
Natalie Ducey
You’re a gem, Debby! Thanks for sharing these informative posts with us, and for including my blog post, as well. You rock! XO
dgkaye
My pleasure Natalie. Thank you for sharing the link to this video and showing us how to download these beautiful fonts. <3
Sue Dreamwalker
Some excellent links here Debby I have save your page to my browser for future reference.. Thank you for sharing! <3
dgkaye
My pleasure Sue. One never knows when they want to refer back. 🙂 <3
Carol Balawyder
Gosh, the publishing and marketing scams are scary! Thanks for these tips, Debby. All interesting and pertinent. 🙂
dgkaye
Happy to enlighten you Carol 🙂
Diana Peach
I actually started making a trailer yesterday on powerpoint. Finished the images and the text but haven’t added the transitions, music and animation. I didn’t know Canva was an option!! Great tip. If my powerpoint trailer sucks, I’ll try Canva out. Lol. Thanks!
dgkaye
Thanks for sharing that Diana. I am looking forward to trying it out on Canva too! Let me know how it goes if you do, I’ll do the same. 🙂 xx