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September 4, 2014 by Nina Amir 1 Comment

Essential Plugins and Widgets for Blogs and Blogged Books

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A WordPress.org blog comes with the essentials. You might call these the basics—some widgets and plugins.  To make your blog run smoothly and efficiently with less work on your part, add plugins. If you are blogging a book, also  install specific plugins to help your visitors read the book. Plugins add features to your site […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Create Your Blog, Plugins and Widgets Tagged With: plugins, table of contents, turn pages, widgets

August 5, 2014 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Six Steps to Take Before You Begin Blogging a Book

Most writers simply begin writing the moment they come up with a book idea they feel is worth pursuing. However, it’s best to wait a moment…or a few moments…to focus and evaluate that idea. This helps your book have a chance of succeeding in the ever-more competitive book market. After all, no matter how you […]

Filed Under: How to Begin Blogging a Book Tagged With: blogging a book, book benefits, book content, competitive analysis, market analysis, table of contents, writing steps

April 18, 2013 by Nina Amir 2 Comments

Create a Strong Structure to Support Your Blogged Book

give your book structure with a table of contents

How to Blog a Better Book: Lesson #6 Before you can turn an idea into a book you must give that book a structure. This structure, known as the Table of Contents, supports your idea much like a human spine supports the body. Later, you put “flesh on the bone” when you determine the content […]

Filed Under: How to Begin Blogging a Book Tagged With: book structure, List of Chapters, table of contents

February 12, 2013 by Nina Amir Leave a Comment

Create a Table of Contents to Help Your Readers Navigate Your Book

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Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 12 It’s important to make it easy for those who visit your site to read your blogged book. Since the last post you write is the first one they will see when they visit your site, you want them to be able to find the beginning of your blogged […]

Filed Under: Building a Better Blog, Create Your Blog, Pages Tagged With: blog archives, blog categories, navigating pages, organizing a blogged book, table of contents

February 29, 2012 by Nina Amir 7 Comments

How to Read a Blogged Book

When I began this blog, I served as my own research and development project. I learned as I blogged my book. And, like any project going through research and development, I learned some things–sometimes after the fact. Most of what I learned later has been included in the printed book, How to Blog a Book: […]

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April 26, 2010 by Nina Amir 3 Comments

Planning Your Posts or Screen-Sized Content

At this point in the planning process, you know what your book is about and you’ve outlined its features and benefits. You know who is going to read it and in which what markets you will promote it. You know the competition and how to differentiate your blogged book from other blogs and books on […]

Filed Under: Chapter Summaries, Introduction, List of Chapters, Parts of the Proposal, The Outline Tagged With: blog posts, Chapter Summaries, List of Chapters, subheads, table of contents, The Outline

March 6, 2010 by ninaamir 2 Comments

How to Begin Blogging Your Book: Start with a Business Plan or Book Proposal (part 5)

Now that you have a pretty good sense about your book’s theme and what you want to write about, we are going to get serious. Really serious. Yesterday was just a taste of what’s to come… As I mentioned, everyone who wants to write a book—blogged or otherwise—needs to go through the proposal process. You […]

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