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Fear-based decision making and writers

From Rick: I’ve been incredibly remiss lately in posting to the blog. It’s been five weeks since the last post. I’ve been focusing on what a writer should focus on: his own writing, and I have several projects ongoing. It’s

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Basics of writingFormatting

Formatting your novel with Styles—Part 4: using your new template

From Rick: It occurred to me after doing Part 3 that I didn’t show you how to use your new template. It’s pretty easy, actually, but there are a couple of cautions to be aware of. This will be a

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Basics of writingFormatting

Formatting your novel with Styles—Part 3: adding more styles

From Rick: With this post I will finish up this series. So far, we have set up our NORMAL style and SCENE BREAK style. A typical novel normally won’t need more than a half-dozen styles. You’ll probably want ones for

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Formatting

Formatting your novel with Styles—Part 1: template creation

From Rick: In the past I’ve talked about basic manuscript cleanups, creating a clean source file for your manuscript, and formatting. I’ve also mentioned using Styles in MS Word to help with formatting, but I left that topic to your

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Copyrights

Copyright and intellectual property legalities for authors

From Rick: For any would-be author, the decision to write a book falls into one of two categories: hobby or business. As soon as you decide to seek a traditional publisher, you’ve moved from hobby to business because you’ve committed

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