Deleyna’s Drift
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Winning at Life
I didn’t win NaNoWriMo (when people write a novel in a month) this year. For anyone who knows me well, you know that November is a special month for me. I look forward to NaNo. The comradery, the creativity, the sheer insanity! But this year, I was given the surprise gift of COVID just before…
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How to Write Sharable Newsletters Part 2—A Fish Story
In Part 1, we covered why you want a newsletter and some of the key basics of the technology that you need to have in place to collect email addresses and send emails that will reach your readers’ inboxes. For this part, I want to dive deeper into finding your audience and connecting with them so…
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How to Write a Newsletter People Will Actually Share, Part 1
There’s a hole in the bucket. When I work with writers on their marketing, everyone has a firm opinion about newsletters. Many authors come to me aggressively denying their need for a newsletter. “You can’t make me do one!” Others say they know they need one, but they don’t know how to start. I’ve watched…
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Find Your Digital Organization Style
I created this fun, non-scientific, and possibly wildly inaccurate quiz to help us think about organization. Enjoy! This quiz is part of my new Digital Organization class for Authors:
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9 Magic Ways Collaborative Storytellers Empower Writing
A few years back, I found an online streaming group called the Streampunks. Much like the folks at Critical Role, these are a group of friends broadcasting their role-playing games live in real time (also available via replay on YouTube). This form of collaborative storytelling fascinated me immediately. Imagine writing in front of a crowd and keeping the…
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How to Survive the Singularity of Rapid Technological Change
Are you feeling any tech stress? I know that I am. Hang with me for a moment, and I promise there is a happy ending to this post. Some things I’ve heard authors say recently: Change is the only constant, it seems. But the problem is: change isn’t a constant. Change is an exponential function!…
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All You Need to Know About How to Write with AIs
Note: as you read this, it is probably already out of date. This technology is changing daily, but I’ve tried to cover the underlying issues and abilities for authors that should give you a stable life raft sailing into the future. ChatGPT, Bard, Sydney… the AIs are here and they’re coming for everyone’s jobs. Or…
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Powerful Author Websites: Get the Results You Want
Authors know they need a website. But did you know there are different types of websites? From years of working with authors, I’ve identified 3 basic types of websites, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. The Basic Business Card A simple online presence for authors to showcase their professional profile. It contains an author…
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EAT Your Heart Out to Empower Your Website
Search engine optimization (SEO) is making your website attractive to the search engine spiders. When they like you, they crawl all over your website and seize upon the tasty morsels of your content to share with their millions of curious customers. We want to keep those spiders happy and engaged! But SEO doesn’t have to…
