Musings #33: Fun with Dialogue Punctuation (#writingtips)
I love dialogue.
Sometimes I will write a scene just so I can use a quippy exchange later.
I adore how you can produce a different pace and evoke feeling with punctuation and well-placed interruptions. Sometimes it can get me into trouble if I have edited heavily to get the right “sound” and I screw up the punctuation.
If you struggle with dialogue, don’t hesitate to write your simple dialogue “bones” then look up the punctuation rules and fix those errors and add flavor later. The more you write dialogue, the better you get at basic punctuation and the more you can play with the tags, the dash, the ellipsis, and interrupting action. Beware the he said-she said tar pits. They can ruin the pacing of your dialogue like too much pepper.
Do you say the characters names too much? Use “said” too often? Do a search and…
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45 ways to avoid using the word ‘very’
Here are 45 ways to avoid using the word ‘very’ that I found online via the Writers Write blog:
Sorting out your Amazon 1099-MISC forms from KDP and CreateSpace (Tax Year 2015)
AMAZON KDP & CREATESPACE 1099-MISC TAX FORMS (YEAR 2015)
I received 12 different 1099-MISC forms for tax year 2015 from Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), and 3 more 1099-MISC forms from CreateSpace. I obtained my KDP tax forms online, but received my CreateSpace forms in the mail (on February 5).
Check yours against my list below to see if you’ve received them all.
Also, my list below will help you check which international marketplace each form corresponds to.
Verify that the amounts are correct. Occasionally, a mistake is made. (One year, they issued replacements a few weeks after mailing the originals.)
Note that, contrary to rumor, there is NO limit of $600 for book royalties. For book royalties, the limit is $10, meaning that if you earned at least $10 in royalties, you should account for this in your tax return. Amazon will have sent the information to the IRS. Most…
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How to Use Facebook Ads to Gain Subscribers and to Promote a Giveaway
As promised at the end of my post, My Facebook Ads Experience and 3 Marketing Rules, here are two alternative ways you can use Facebook ads to gain subscribers and to promote a giveaway.
One Alternative Model
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During December, I teamed up with authors Autumn Birt and P.H. Solomon to run Facebook ads in order to gain subscribers.
The way we did this was by giving away one book each, and sharing the subscribers among ourselves.
Autumn set everything up, and she did a wonderful job. We spent $1 daily each, and ended up with 85 new subscribers at a cost of $30. This means that each subscriber cost us just $0.35.
The only drawback with this model is that there is no tripwire page. Which means there’s not even the possibility of you recouping the money spent on the ads.
Incidentally, we…
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