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Our first Asengana giveaway – win a 1940 Corona Flat Top typewriter
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Convert all your stories to eBooks (ePub) for FREE with Asengana in 30 days
Let’s assume you have quite a few short stories and novels that you didn’t self-publish yet. With a little love and 30 days of Asengana free access, you could give new life and strengthen your writer online presence.
For writers who are almost (but not quite) satisfied with their own writing and can’t figure out what’s missing
No, this is not an article about why you should be using Asengana. This is an article about the fact that it makes sense to learn, work, and fill in all the missing things in your writing as long as you’re happy when you write.
How to create a consisting writing practice – a hero’s journey
Do you have a hard time sticking with writing? Check out these great tips to help you create a consistent writing practice.
It’s called writing skills for a reason
If you practice, you’ll see improvement. If you don’t practice, you won’t. It’s that simple. Saying “I can’t do it” is self-defeating and does nothing for you. Sometimes it’s difficult to see the improvement you’ve made in your writing. But trust me, your readers notice. That is one of the gifts of publishing – getting real feedback about your progress from your readers.
Do you think writers are broke and ignorant? I don’t think so.
The constructive feedback kept coming. Our Concierge – Jira Service Desk – proves to be a very easy to use and efficient communication tool. It’s a pleasure to answer back to writers and tell them “Hey, we made last night the change you suggested. Please check and let us know if it’s what you needed. Also, thank you because we are sure the other writers will benefit from it too.”
And then comes the other type of feedback revolving around the next two ideas…
SMM 7/7 – Project Management for writers – Kanban
Kanban is an Agile methodology I use in my everyday life. You will be using it when writing your books with the assistance of the Asengana platform.
SMM 6/7 – DIY Social Media Marketing Plan for writers
The sales numbers isn’t the only result you should examine. You should keep track of the number of followers on each social network, the number of likes and shares for certain posts, your website traffic (Google Analytics), and anything else you think might be helpful in quantifying the user experience.
SMM 5/7 – Social Networks – a like value is 0
This another boring article about things everybody knows. Sometimes, self-sufficiency makes us ignore the changes in functionalities or algorithms of various social networks. Is back to basics, one-on-one communication.
SMM 4/7 – The story about you writing your story
These three recipes for writing articles seem to produce more compelling results than others and are easy to follow. Even if they are not applicable per se for a writer, they offer a glimpse into the mind of a marketer.
SMM 3/7 – The website – a writer’s castle
I use my online presence as a benchmark. I OWN my website. It is my castle. If I want the world to know something about me, I will write it there.
SMM 2/7 – Personal branding for writers
Online PERSONAL BRAND = Online SOCIAL PRESENCE + Online SOCIAL STATUS
SMM 1/7 – Why is the way you define Social Media Marketing important?
To approach social media as a professional writer means that you’ll have to wear a different hat to sell your books than that of the normal user. You’ll wear the hat of a Social Media Manager.
How many words do you read and write every day?
Six months and 200,000 words later, yes, you read correctly: 200k, I was looking at the screen wondering about the meaning of time and words.
The six true reasons for not writing and publishing a good book – based on real conversations with future, actual, or never-going-to-happen writers
Disclaimer:
This article is not for fragile egos. Words can hurt.
If in doubt and a double-espresso will brighten your day, keep reading.
If you’re one of us, a thick-skin writer who takes work seriously, this article is for your amusement.
“Have you read my book?” expectation vs. the reader’s goodwill
Reading your book competes not only with other books but with all other activities I do in a day. It competes for a precious resource: my time. Even offering me a free book it’s not enough. I know it’s not what you expect to hear. After all, it’s your mind’s baby in which you poured hours of work, your soul on paper.
Let’s stop here and now and accept the definition of a bestseller: it sells.
The writer in me cringes to write this. After all, what makes a good book should be the storytelling skills of the wordsmith.
The book market for the genre I write in is huge
Be smart. It’s not sexy to start small, but it’s the best place to start.
Why is that famous writer coming to that small convention every year?
Asengana was born of the idea that the writing process needs more than just creativity and then modeled based upon the conclusions of many conversations combined with a lot of hard work needed to convince writers to open up about their success.
Beyond the noise awaits the reader?
You’ll notice a lot of opinions about how good or bad a famous writer is. They are visible, known and easy to attack. The professional writers also don’t give a…
Wasted words
I delete 70% of the blog articles I write at a second reading. I called it Words Quality Assurance.
How to write a short story outline – cheat sheet
Until we launch the platform in October and you’ll have a full-featured project management and writing, maybe this cheat sheet will help you write your short stories faster.