Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Increasing Your Blog’s Readership

Increasing Your Blog’s Readership
by Linda Fulkerson, The Ultimate Guide to Blogging Well

The number-one question I get asked as a blog coach is “How do I get people to come to my blog?” Blog traffic streams flow from three areas: offline, on-site, and off-site. There are a lot of quick and easy tactics bloggers [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Traditional vs Self-Publishing

Two Roads Diverged: Understanding Traditional and Self-Publishing Differences
by Todd Rutherford, Vice President Yorkshire Publishing

The publishing world has experienced change over the past several decades as all industries have, but the next 10 years will be a cocoon altering it into a different species altogether.  Many major print publishing houses have either merged or acquired smaller [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Writing A Short Story

Writing A Short Story by author Geoff Hoff, TipsOnWriting.net

What is a short story? It is a story that is shorter than a novel or a novella. Pretty simple, isn’t it?
Most short stories have a limited number of characters and locations, only one or a few conflicts, and a single plot. (There are many [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Web Video

Creating Web Video by marketing expert/producer Linda Frothingham
Action speaks louder than words. Add a video to your website, and enjoy the benefits of higher visibility with the search engines. Videos are an excellent way to promote your site—and yourself!
Getting Started
Before you film, plan it out. A video should have a beginning, middle, and an [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Book Proposals

Seven Rules for Writing Your Book Proposal by author Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Book proposals are not something that are going away any time soon. In fact, they have becoming more omnipresent. Once only writers of non-fiction needed to write proposals to get their ideas past gatekeepers, the editors, agents, [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – National Novel Writing Month-

Succeeding During NaNoWriMo by UCLA Extension writing instructor Ian Randall Wilson

In about two weeks, for the fourth year in a row, I’ll begin facilitating a class at UCLA Extension as part of NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month. Fifty participants have already signed up for the class, and many of them are no doubt wondering what’s [...]

Moving Write Along: Advice from the Experts – Literary Agents

An Introduction to Literary Agents by Laura Strachan, Strachan Literary Agency
Many first time authors view literary agents as Cerberus, the three-headed dog that guarded the gates to Hades (which may or may not be an apt metaphor for the publishing industry). While it may be true that literary agents are gate-keepers of a sort, I [...]