Category: writing
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Homeschooling: Writing ladders
Today I’ve been working on some writing ladders. These are sentences with blanks in them for children to fill in. I’ve designed them with no right or wrong answers, so children can use their creativity and invent their own answers. The whole point is to fire their imaginations and get them practising their writing. The…
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10 Ways To Get Cash To Your Small Business
Here are 10 ways to improve cash flow to your product-based business Implement a marketing plan. This will give you direction and strategy. While you’re cooking that up… Offer an entry-level product that gives people instant gratificationFor a book business, this would be a free or $0.99 book 1 of a series. For a knitting…
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The Marketing Adventurers League is Coming!
Are you having adventures (or misadventures) in marketing? Do you want to join a supportive community of side hustlers/small business owners/new business owners looking for advice on how to get established and scale their business? If so, the Marketing Adventurers League is for you. Join the waitlist here to be the first to hear when…
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Misadventure: Fairies
This is a misadventure about magic, and the watershed between knowing magic is real, as children do, and knowing it isn’t. Both parties KNOW this, and yet… doesn’t that suggest that knowledge depends on your point of view? When I was 8, I moved schools from St Giles RC to The Valley County Primary in…
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Newsletter Marketing for Authors is here!
Here’s what you said: “How do I start an author newsletter?” “How do I find my ideal readers?” “How do I use a newsletter to get my books out there?” This course answers all of these and more. Even better, its RRP is $99 but I’ve created a special coupon for you. You can get…
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Writing prompt: Marmite
If you’re in Australia you have the better version, which is vegemite. If you’re in the US/Canada you’ll have to do some writing research on this one. Don’t embarrass yourself (as a writer I know did) by describing it as “green” because it has “veg” in the Australian name. It’s not green. Do your research.…
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Weekly writing prompt: Galaxy
What do you think of when you imagine a galaxy? A swirl of stars and planets, space dust and other wondrous sky stuff? Or are you going straight for the chocolate bar? Is that a thing where you live? I know in Britain and Ireland there are galaxy bars but I honestly can’t remember if…
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How to build a tribe on Facebook
Facebook is the most time-intensive platform to master. I successfully grew my author page to 3k likes/follows before I closed that account. Why did I close my Facebook author account? What an admission at the beginning of an article about how to grow an audience on Facebook! Consider the dead donkey dropped (if you don’t…
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Misadventure: Catching a dog in a spy base
When I was eleven we got a dog. His breed was brown, white and waggly. He looked like a Jack Russell but he was the size of a labrador. And he needed a lot of walking. We lived on a bizarrely-designed council estate which had its front doors at the back and the back doors…
Mama Adventure 