Creativity: Avoiding Blocks and Refreshing Ideas — Guest: Christina Delay
We’ll probably all struggle with creative blocks during our writing career, so what can we do to help? Christina Delay shares her insights.
How Can We Make Sense of Our Goals and Priorities?
With everything we think we “should” do, it can be hard to know what our goals really are. How can we figure out our priorities—our most important goals?
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Setting Up a Book Launch for Success — Guest: Christina Delay
Part of being an author is finding and marketing our book to readers who will love our story. If we think like a business person, we can see how the launching of a new book has many similarities to how businesses launch a new product.
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Marketing Can Be Fun…Yes, Really! — Guest: Christina Delay
We need to promote our books, as they don’t sell themselves, but most writers avoid thinking about marketing stuff. Yet with the right goals, marketing and promotion can be fun, and Christina Delay is here to show us how.
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Using Google AdWords to Make Interested Readers Commit — Guest: Christina Delay
Even when people are interested in our work, they might not follow through with purchasing our stories. Christina Delay explains how Google AdWords can get previously interested readers to commit and check out our books.
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Using Facebook to Reach Readers and Sell Books — Guest: Christina Delay
For every author who’s been successful with Facebook Ads, dozens more have seen their investment disappear. Christina Delay’s sharing her advice on learning about our readers and reaching out to them with Facebook.
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Don’t Let Worries Hold You Back from Writing — Guest: Christina Delay
As writers, we’re not in control of many aspects of our career, and the resulting worries can make it hard to concentrate or feel creative. But maybe we can reach a point of not letting our anxiety get in our way.
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5 Steps to Avoid Overwriting — Guest: Christina Delay
Many newbie writers try to perfectly replicate their ideas in their readers’ brains, even though overwriting slows down our pacing, repeats ideas, and prevents subtext. Luckily, Christina Delay is here with five steps to break the overwriting habit.
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Make Settings Come to Life with Sensory Details — Guest: Christina Delay
We’ve talked before about adding depth to our settings, but there’s another way to bring our settings to life and immersing readers in our story: layering unique details and sensory information. Today, Christina Delay to shows us how.
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Too Many Demands? Find Balance — Guest: Christina Delay
The vast majority of people feel overly busy, which can make us lose sight of our big-picture goals and purpose in life. But Christina Delay is here to help us identify what we really want and visualize how we might need to re-prioritize our time to match our goals.
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