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Key:
➡️ = Written by
🌟 = Guest Post
🎤 = Interview
Online Writing
🌟 How To Fall Back in Love With Your Own Writing
➡️ How Much I Earned From a Viral (Non-Boosted) Story on Medium
➡️ 15 Absolutely Vital Lessons I've Learned as a Working Writer
➡️ Is your creative tank in the red?
🌟 5 Ways New Writers Can Make Money (How I Made $4420 In My 1st Year)
🌟 The Amazing Growth of Bloggers and Influencers (And How to Become One)
🌟 How to Grow on Medium in 2024, Even If You're Starting From Zero
➡️ 10 Things I'd Do Differently If I Started Over
🌟 Building a Personal Platform Online Has Been a Rough Ride
🌟 3 More Ways To Monetise Your Writing (that Will Also Make You A Better Solopreneur)
➡️ Why I'm more interested in writing online than querying these days
➡️ Why Is Community So Important For Writers?
➡️ The 1 Thing That Could Absolutely Make or Break Your Writing Career
Books
🌟 5 Creative Ways for Authors to Keep Promoting
➡️ I Finally Told Mum I'm Getting Published
➡️ Here Are The Free Ways I Plan to Promote My Debut Novel This Year
🌟 Changing Pathways to Publication (with Veronica Llorca-Smith)
➡️ How many book queries does it take to land a literary agent?
➡️ If you want to finish your novel, you need a non-negotiable writing space
➡️ Why Character Development is Crucial For The Success of Your Novel
➡️ What’s The Big Idea For Your Novel?
➡️ Why Your Novel Should (And Shouldn’t) Fit A Particular Genre
➡️ How To Prepare Before Writing Your Novel (And Avoid Future Failure)
➡️ I Asked ChatGPT to Write a Novel. Here’s What Happened.
➡️ The Novelist’s 6-Stage Pathway To Publication
➡️ How To ‘Unstick’ Your Writing
➡️ How To Set Realistic Goals for Your Novel (5 Steps To The Finish Line)
Marketing
➡️ The Simplest (and Most Effective) Way to Develop Your Personal Brand as a Writer
🌟 How to Systemize & Monetize Your Personality
➡️ How to Grow Within The Online Community That Grows Your Online Audience
➡️ Every Writer Needs a Platform. Start Building Yours Like This.
➡️ 720 Hours On TikTok For 150 Book Sales. Is This Really The Way?
➡️ How (And Why) To Grow Your Following On Twitter
➡️ Should You Still Pay For Social Media Ads?
➡️ Use The Barnacle Approach to Grow Your Audience
➡️ The Simplest Way to Grow Your Instagram Audience
Mindset
➡️ How to Fortify Your Mind Against Rejection as a Writer
➡️ I Lost an Internal Organ and Gained a Lifelong Purpose
➡️ No-one’s Immune to Rejection
➡️ Thinking About Quitting? You Should Do This First.
Interviews
🎤 A Quick Cuppa with Claire Venus
🎤 Interview with a Publisher: Richard Mayers (Burton Mayers Books)
🎤 Author Interview: Melanie Reynard
🎤 Author Interview: Jess Wilkinson
🎤 Author Interview: Eve Koguce
🎤 Author Interview: Anthony Di Angelo
🎤 Author Interview: AK Cooper-Elliot
🎤 Author Interview: Nicolette Fuller
🎤 Author Interview: Gareth L. Powell
🎤 Author Interview: Travis Smith
🎤 Author Interview: Adam Shardlow
Deep Dives
➡️ This Writer Made $100,000 Last Year in Her Spare Time
➡️ This Self-Published Writer Sold 10 Million Books in the Last 10 Years
Substack
➡️ How I Grew My Substack Audience by Over 1,400 Subscribers in Under 2 Months
➡️ Why the heck have I changed the name of my publication?
Roundups
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Wow! Thanks a million! Bookmarked ... looking forward to sifting through all of this information! Appreciate it!
YES! What an awesome contribution to the Substack world! This is super useful, thanks!