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You started a new blog, and you don’t have many pages or posts. So you consider content scraping and copying articles from around the Internet. Yes, you can publish a lot of pages in a short time by copying. But, before you start, do you know what you are about to do? Is there a…
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The verb get is unusual in that it has two different past participles; gotten and got. You might think that the preference for either one is simply between US and British English usage. But it’s more complicated than that because the two words have different and distinct uses. Making the right choice is not so…
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When it comes time to proofread and check dialogue writing in a manuscript, it can be quite challenging. Because there are so many elements, it’s also extremely time-consuming. Yes, you need to check your grammar, vocabulary, and punctuation. But above all else, consistency is the most important point to check. What to check in dialogue…
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What is fluff in writing? It is when you use words that add little or no value to a text for a reader. Fluff can be words and phrases that are off-topic, hard to understand, unclear, unnecessary, boring, or added only to increase the word count. Every writer uses a bit of fluff in the…
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If you are considering paying a vanity press publisher to publish your book, think very carefully. So many scam publishers now use high-pressure selling to convince you to hand over a lot of money. If you receive an unsolicited email saying that a publisher is very interested in your book or wants to turn it…
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The Internet is full of terrific advice on how to be a better writer. Almost everything I read is true. Yes, improving your grammar knowledge and writing skills is vital. But here’s a big tip for you. Most articles I read on improving your writing miss the most critical piece of advice. When you know about…
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How many book sales do you need to reach number one on Amazon? If you want to hit the bestseller lists for the major popular genres in the Kindle Store, you will need somewhere between 2,000 and 6,000 book sales per day. But there is more than one bestseller list on Amazon. There are hundreds…
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Outreach campaigns for articles and backlinks are becoming so frequent that they are competing with comment spam as a nuisance. Every day, I delete bundles of emails offering me free articles, asking for backlinks, or offering to pay me to publish an article. Back in 2014, guest posting was the big thing in SEO to…
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When it comes to devices for reading ebooks, what do people use? An e-reader, phone, tablet, or computer? When the Kindle arrived in 2007, it quickly became the most popular e-reading device. In 2010, the release of the first iPad along with iBooks looked like it might compete with Kindle. However, the low-resolution screen on…
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Is it wreaked havoc or wrought havoc? At first glance, I thought both were correct, but that wrought sounded much better. Like you, perhaps, I thought wrought was the simple past verb for wreak, as with bring and brought or teach and taught. But after hitting the dictionaries, I discovered I was wrong as there…
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