This video shares the success strategies that helped Jack London become one of the most popular writers and the highest paid of the 1900s. The post Jack London’s Strategies for Writing Success (Video) appeared first on Nicole Bianchi ..read more

This past year, I read over twenty books, both fiction and nonfiction. Several of those books were amazing reads, others left me a little disappointed. But I learned something new from each one that helped me improve my own writing. The post The 5 Best Passages From Books I Read in 2023: Steal These Powerful Writing Techniques appeared first on Nicole Bianchi ..read more

In 1950, C. S. Lewis wrote a letter to a young fan of his Chronicles of Narnia series. He critiqued the fan’s writing and also shared his five rules for writing well. The post How to Write Like C. S. Lewis (Video) appeared first on Nicole Bianchi ..read more

Here's how an orchid taught me an important lesson in creativity. There are 36 days left in the year — still lots of time to work towards our most important goals and to rest and plan for an amazing 2024. The post What an Orchid Taught Me About Creativity appeared first on Nicole Bianchi ..read more

Photo by anna-m. w. I’m starting a new series of posts here on the blog where I will be sharing examples of marketing and copywriting strategies that will help you more powerfully promote your books, products, services, and unique message online. Over the past several years, I’ve been working with clients in a digital marketing agency that I started with my two brothers. I’ve learned lots of marketing strategies from helping many different types of businesses and influencers grow their brands online (brick-and-mortar stores, national companies, personal brands, coaches, and more!).  Addit ..read more

Photo by cottonbro studio Dialogue is tricky to write. If it isn’t done well, it can slow down the entire narrative of a story, boring readers to tears. In real life, people will pull up a chair and just talk and talk. But if this happens too often in a story, it won’t make for a fascinating read. Instead, dialogue becomes much more engaging when characters are doing something while speaking. That something could be anything: cooking a meal, eating a meal, cleaning up after the meal, dancing in the kitchen once it is clean. You get the picture. I recently came across a wonderful example of thi ..read more

Photo by Leyre Labarga Hello, fellow writers! It’s been several months since my last update about my self-publishing adventure. However, I am excited to report that I’ve spent those months working hard to get a new site built and start implementing the first steps of my self-publishing marketing plan. Now I’m ready to pull back the curtain and reveal it to all of you!  First, be sure to check out my previous post (chapter 1 of this adventure) for all the background details about my book and my marketing strategy.  My goal with this series of posts is to share my experiments. I’m ..read more

Photo by Mikołaj on Unsplash Back in January, I shared my writing goals for 2023 and what I was planning for this website and my YouTube channel this year.  One of my goals was to finally take the first steps towards self publishing a book. (I like the term “indie publishing” better, but I’m using the term “self publishing” for SEO reasons). This book will be the first I ever self publish. So, as I wrote in my January post, I’ll be focusing on researching and experimenting to find out what works and what doesn’t. Then I’ll share what I learn here on the blog. I’m quite exci ..read more

Photo by Suzy Hazelwood I sent this blog’s very first email newsletter way back in 2016. That’s seven years ago!  A lot has changed in the blogging world since then. In fact, it was just around that time that video was rising in popularity, and people were beginning to ask whether blogging was dying. Funnily enough, Vine (the popular short form video platform at the time) did end up dying. But short form video did not. Instagram reels, Tik Tok videos, and YouTube shorts have become all the rage. So, seven years later, is blogging dead?  I have to admit that I’ve worried over that que ..read more

Let’s start this year with some wonderful writing advice from Ernest Hemingway. I’ve just uploaded a new YouTube video sharing Hemingway’s 3-step exercise that will help you improve your writing. I hope this video gives you a bit of inspiration as you work towards your 2023 writing goals. An aspiring writer once asked Ernest Hemingway, “How can a writer train himself?” Hemingway shared an exercise for sharpening a writer’s observational skills so they can vividly describe their experiences on paper. This exercise can be broken down into three-steps and gives us a fantastic way to pra ..read more