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Any of us who’ve ever read about best-selling author Colleen Hoover know that TikTok has a vibrant book culture. I’ve[…]
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Any of us who’ve ever read about best-selling author Colleen Hoover know that TikTok has a vibrant book culture. I’ve[…]
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Read moreFor those of you just starting out in this bizarre world of self-expression/self-promotion, here are a few tips.
Read moreWords are the building blocks of language and the means by which humans express their thoughts and feelings. Expressing thoughts and feelings is what writers do. We search for the perfect word in every situation, and we try to be precise. Words all by themselves conjure up images and emotions. But to move a book along, those words must be strung together into sentences that mean something. Does it matter how we string those words together? Yes, it does.
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