6 Simple Steps to Picking Your Perfect Title

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First impressions are very important.

Whether it’s you walking into an important meeting, or someone seeing your book for the first time, the person viewing you or your book will form an opinion at first sight.

It’s just human nature. It’s how we create memories.

If you want people to notice and buy your book, you need to make a good first impression.

Walk into any bookstore or even your local library, and you’ll notice the colors of the books first.

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75 Of The Best Angst Writing Prompts

Angst Writing Prompts

Angst — that feeling of anxiety, inner pain, and deep dread.

Whatever your experience with angst, you know it’s not just for teenagers.

It’s a whole mood that saturates your life.

It’s ageless and contains multitudes. 

If you want to include an angst-ridden character in your next book, you’ve come to the right place. 

To capture this emotion in your character’s dialogue, look through the angst prompts that follow, and take note of those that feel familiar to you.

Those are probably the ones that will take a firm hold of your imagination and get you writing at a furious pace. 

The best angst ideas come from your own experiences. 

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Looking For Negative Mood Words For Your Writing? Here’s The Only List You Need

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When one of your characters is going through something, how do you communicate that to your readers? 

Think of a scene in one of your own stories where the protagonist is in a foul mood.

Maybe the other characters picked that up quickly enough, but did your reader? 

When that magic happens, it’s all in the words you use — and the ones you leave out.

When it comes to that first group, we’ve got a negative moods list you might like. 

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How To Write A Book In Google Docs

How to Write a Book in Google Docs

If you’ve used Google Docs for school or writing blog posts, you know it’s versatile, intuitive, and free to use.

So, while it may not be the first word-processing tool you think of for writing books, there are plenty of reasons why it should be one of your top three. 

After looking through this post, it might even become your number-one option. 

This guide will get you from a blank page (or blog post) to a finished book, with simple step-by-step instructions and screenshots that show you exactly what to do. 

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87 Self-Reflective Prompts To Help You Write About Yourself

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Having trouble deciding what to write about yourself

Whether you’re writing for your journal, your memoir, or a class assignment, you have plenty of topics about yourself to choose from. 

You’re more interesting than you might think.

So are the people you live with, work with, and meet — if only for a moment. 

Once you look through the prompts listed below, the real challenge will be choosing which one to write about first. 

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7 Key Elements Of Suspense Story Writing

elements of suspense story writing

You have an excellent idea for a suspense novel.

But getting that story onto the page and keeping your readers at the edge of their seats is more challenging than you thought. 

It’s plenty suspenseful in your head. But when you write it out, something is missing

Welcome to Authority Pub’s guide on how to write suspense — with everything you need to know about creating suspense for your readers and nothing you don’t.  

You’ll be back to writing that future best seller in no time. 

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The Best List Of 101 Hobbies For Your Book Characters

hobbies for book characters

When was the last time you were reading a novel and learned about a hobby you shared with one of your favorite characters?

Just like that, you feel more connected to them. 

And honestly when are you not curious about character interests?

They seem more human when they have hobbies. 

But when you’re writing a story of your own, how do you know which hobbies to give your characters?

That’s what the character hobbies list below will help with. 

And the better you know each of your characters, the more likely the right hobbies will stand out for you. 

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