Many successful writers use their email signatures to promote their books or blog links – but that can get a little ho-hum. Here are a few creative ways to add pizzazz to your email signature to increase book sales and blog traffic – whether you’re an aspiring author or a busy blogger (or both!).
Before the tips, a [...]

Even the most successful writers need editing help! These tips for revising articles, essays, and short stories will help clean up your copy and make even your pickiest readers (and editors) happy.
Before the tips, a quip:
“Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.” – Lawrence Kasdan.
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These tips for writing great conclusions are from one of my regular guest bloggers, Susan Johnston of the Urban Muse. Keep these ways to end your essays, articles, chapters, or blog posts at your fingertips – they’ll come in handy!
Before her tips, a quip:
“There are no dull subjects,” said H.L. Mencken. “There are only dull [...]

These quotations from published authors on the dreaming and writing process is a follow-up from my How Dreaming at Night Inspires Famous Writers post. Thanks for the nudge, c.a. Marks
First, a writing quip:
“There are two kinds of [successful] writers: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.” – Brian Aldiss
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Some successful writers believe that dreaming at night is the heart and soul of good writing – while others can’t remember their dreams at all!  Here’s a roundup of how dreams inspire some famous writers…and a dreamy question for you, fellow scribes.
First, a quip from the great writer Isabel Allende:
“You write a book and it’s [...]

One way to be a successful writer is improving your writing confidence — so here are 13 quips and tips to build you up! This is a round up of advice from a variety of freelance writers and bloggers, because a healthy dose of self-confidence will take you farther than insecurity and fear ever will.
Because one of these successful writers mentioned On Writing, here’s [...]

These writing quips and tips for successful writers are from Stephen King’s book, On Writing. This book was really difficult for him to write – and, truthfully, the first half was difficult for me to read! It meandered. Nevertheless, I’ve pulled seven writing quips and tips from his book…
Before the tips, a quip from the King of Horror:
“If you [...]

Even Stephen King needs to write introductions that grab readers by the throat - though it may come naturally for him now! For the rest of us, here’s a “cheat sheet” for writing leads that hook readers and editors.
First, though, a writing quip from Sol Stein:
“Other [writers] find excuses for not writing at the same time every day, balk [...]