Ok, so you’ve decided to just get started writing. You sit down every day to write. And then you become distracted. Someone is mowing outside and you remember you still haven't gotten cash out to pay your lawn maintenance company. Or your throat feels scratchy so you start looking up symptoms on the internet. 30 […]
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I often find that the getting started part is the hardest when it comes to writing, well, when it comes to anything for that matter. Perfect example. I hate to wash dishes. And I will just look at that sink full of dirty dishes and think, “Uggggghhhhhhh……….I don't WANT to wash the dishes!!” But, if
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We are going to start a new thing here at the Lucid Books blog. Once a month, or so, we will review a book that we feel is beneficial to our authors and their goals. It should be noted that we are receiving no benefits of these reviews. These books were purchased and we have
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Does this sound familiar? You write a chapter, or a book, or an article. You are typing away and you feel very confident about your work. You feel like words are flowing out of you. You feel as though you have tapped into true and pure prose. Then, when it comes time to turn in
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We have added a new member to our team at Lucid Books. Well, she isn’t exactly new, so much as she has taken on a new role at our company. Sammantha has been with Lucid Books since October working on content creation as well as administrative tasks. When our former Project Manager Marissa Torres decided
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Do you truly understand the power of free? Do you? Do you realize how much value you can add to your writing career by giving away stuff for free? People L-O-V-E free. More importantly they love adding value to their lives for free. Enter your freebie. Now, of course there is no sustainability in giving
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I know this is kind of Meta, blogging about blogging, but, hear me out. Blogging is one of the most crucial elements to building your brand. There is no better way to drive people to your site and prove to them that you are an expert. Not to mention the great practice you will get
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Many authors who want to self-publish, or publish with and independent publisher want to know why they can't just do the interior design of their book themselves. It seems easy enough. The simplest answer is: if you are a trained professional, who can layout a book while meeting the standards and conventions of book design,
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Writers are often introverts. It is not so much that they don't like to be around people, though that can be true, it is more that writers find it easier to be inside their own heads where their stories lie. Writers like to hole up in their workspace and type out characters, and stories, and
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For many writers, being published is a life-long dream. But, the idea of having to spend thousands of dollars to do so makes the dream seem unobtainable. There’s good news. In this day and age there is a wonderful tool known as crowdfunding that can help you get the funds that you need to publish
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