I manage a lot of blogs—four to be exact—and I guest blog for other sites as well. It’s no wonder, therefore, that I often get asked, “How do you get it all done?” Although I don’t consider myself the most effective time manager, I can offer you a few tips on how to make your […]
How to Blog a Completed Manuscript
You’ve already written your book, but you want to test the market or build an author platform before release by blogging it. How do you take your completed manuscript and break it down into 300- to 500-word pieces—blog posts—when you wrote it to flow as one continuous chapter after another? Good question. I continue to […]
3+ Reasons I’ve Started Using Scrivener as a Blogging Tool
For a while now I’ve been toying around with the idea of using Scrivener as a writing tool. I hadn’t seriously considered using it for blogging, except I was interesting in finding out if it could become a blog-to-book tool. If it could import posts form WordPress, I figured it might be quite useful. I […]
7 Ways to Write Blog Posts that Get Read
The other day I shared a link on Twitter to a new blog post. Someone tweeted back, but their response only answered the question in the title of my post, which I had shared in my tweet. Their response had little to do with the post itself, making it obvious they hadn’t clicked on the […]
7 Ways to Overcome Blogger’s Block
People often ask me how I manage to blog 5+ days per week without running out of things to write about, feeling uninspired because of the pressure or just getting stuck. I rarely succumb to the dreaded “blogger’s block.” In fact, I don’t believe it exists. There are times when I can’t blog for other […]
How to Write a Blog Post Even When You Have Bloggers’ Block
Today I opened up Microsoft Word document. I looked at the blank sheet of paper, and I simply didn’t want to write a blog post. I felt uninspired. That’s why it’s 8:30 p.m. Pacific Time and I’m only now publishing this post. Yes, me. The queen of blogs. I have four of them. (I used […]
How to Turn Your Courses Into (Blogged) Books (Part 2)
Imagine this scenario: You decide to monetize your knowledge and create an online course. You produce the videos, documentation and membership access. In addition to explaining the benefits of the course, your sales page features a picture of you and bio explaining that you are an authority on this particular topic. You mention that you […]
How to Write Search-Engine Friendly Blog Posts
You can find a ton of information online and off about how to “search engine optimize” (SEO) your blog posts. Yet, Google constantly changes its algorithms and rules making it difficult to know if you are turning out search-engine friendly content or not. If you aren’t a techie or simply want to blog or to […]
How a Good Plan Helps You Blog a Good Book
It doesn’t matter if you blog fiction or nonfiction. If you want to blog a good book, I believe you must begin with a good content plan. This means you must know what content you want to include in your book and what structure you will use to deliver that content in the a manner […]
Engage Your Readers with a Call to Action
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 14 Every blog post should have a goal. You should want to accomplish something with that post—to get your readers to think, feel, experience, or consider. If you accomplish that goal, you also should be able to ask you readers to do something. You should be able to provide […]
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