Discover the key strategies and insider tips to transform your writing dreams into reality. This comprehensive guide provides aspiring authors with valuable insights and proven techniques to navigate the path to becoming a published author successfully.
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Readers want to get to peer into the soul of the writer. Yet as writers, we are often tempted to vomit out the contents of lives on our readers without giving any thought to the lessons we have learned. During my term of office in the SRC, I learned a thing or two about the
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As an author and avid LinkedIn user, I like to follow how the world at large is responding to the global phenomenon of AI. I did a quick search this morning to see how many posts or polls I could find related to AI, and I stopped counting when I got to sixteen using the
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Discover the key strategies and insider tips to transform your writing dreams into reality. This comprehensive guide provides aspiring authors with valuable insights and proven techniques to navigate the path to becoming a published author successfully.
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I love a good fresh salad and have always had a desire to have my very own vegetable garden. The mini farmer inside me made several attempts, all with varying levels of success. Before I was married, I rented a charming cottage where my garden flourished. It was a wonderful staggered white rose garden and
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As writers, we’re always trying to hone our skills and perfect our craft. One of the most important aspects of your novel is to be able to create believable characters that readers can identify with. This is called ‘characterisation’, and here is a simple definition: Characterisation is the process by which the writer reveals the personality
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In 2000, in an American romantic fantasy comedy movie “What Women Want”, Nick Marshall, played by Mel Gibson, suddenly gains the ability to hear women’s thoughts. At first it overwhelmed him, but then this advertising executive realises that his new found superpower could skyrocket his career and he could break into the multi-million dollar women’s
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When I was a child, my parents took a road trip every year from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town to visit my maternal grandparents for Christmas. A roughly 749 km, or 465 miles long trip. The journey seemed to last forever. A gruelling 8 hour trip, which would have been even longer if my parents
Successful traditional publishers also have a quality control process. They have teams of cover designers, editors, proofreaders and marketing personnel that will ensure that the quality of the cover, print and content of the books match industry standards. My initial mentor told me I could publish my book for free. While that is true, you
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am revisiting an old favourite of mine, The Richest Man in Babylon, a 1926 book by George S. Claso. In this parable about the seven rules about money, the king of Babylon appoints Arkad, undoubtedly the richest man in Babylon, to teach the inhabitants how to make money, keep it and multiply it. In this
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In American action adventure movie Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves from 1991 based on the English folk tale that originated in the 12th century, Hood and Azeem make an unlikely pair. Hood, a Christian crusader, (played by Kevin Costner), was imprisoned along with a Muslim named Azeem (played by Morgan Freeman). When Robin tries to
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In the 1982 Romantic Drama movie, An Officer and a Gentleman, starring Richard Gear and Louis Gossert Jnr, Zack, a naval aviation candidate (played by Gere), who was raised by a drunken father, has some issues with authority. He locks heads with his hard-driving Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in his training as a
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